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Indeed, but we are not talking the tourney favorite here, but the real home team. And the host teams always seem to play exceptional and Portugal and their "golden generation" are due (at least to make it into the semi's).Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Predictions:
Portugal 3-1 over Greece
Spain also wins big 3-1 over Russia
Dark Horse prediction:
CZECH REPUBLIC
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Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
Oooo dark horse? I say Denmark.
Yeah, everyone seems to be waiting to see if the Danes have another miracle fever run in then. That is one tough group they have to get out of though.
Thats what I'm counting on.... usually the big boys relax and think, yeah breeze it while the underdogs up their game....Quote:
Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
But looking at the other teams, I'd say only Italy are tough opposition really. Sweden failed to impress me that much even when they played England, and Bulgaria are possible dark horses I guess....
Can't wait, fridge is already stacked and local pizza shop is on notice.... :thumbs:
portugil 0 greece 2
spain 2 russia 1
win and win m'er f'ers!!!
With competitions like these, you usually find that us so called experts rarely get a correct result. Who'd have thought that France would exit the World Cup in the 1st round with zero goals scored in 2002, along with Argentina and Portugal.
That's why we need more none footy (soccer) people playing to upset the rest of us when their wild predictions are spot on.
Are you asking for Ya_know to participate?
BTW, yeah, they were the usual upsets, but, after all when all was said and done, who won it all? A pre-tourney favorite.
I'd like everyone to participate for fun. After all I know almost nothing about American Football but if you lot were having a similar competition to predict results I think I might just have a go. I'd love to lord it up for beating the experts when I knew virtually nothing about the sport, so this is a great chance for anyone on these forums to have a go.
Everyone is welcome to play, abuse or pad.
So that's just an invitation of course to write any old tripe .. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
What's to know ? .. pad up extra safe :D, throw ball to other padded up or padding bloke, he either catches it clean & runs into another padded bloke or scores or if he fumbled, all the other padding blokes crash in their pads into each other & they start all over again - sounds like windrivers & wotpp to me :D
No arguments to be started here -ED, we've been there and done it and I don't want to alienate the whole of the U.S. just yet!
..Oh Yeah ! That's right, teach them about the 'beautiful game', not mock their ugly one .. :devil:
You may just be surprised how many of us know about the "beautiful game" already.
From here:http://www.ussoccer.com/about/conten...tompageid=8246
In 20 years you all may just start bemoaning the juggernaut that the US has become and crying: unfair!!!https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gifQuote:
To that end, the sports growth in the past 15 years (in the US) has been nothing short of remarkable. The most recent example of that progress was the opening of U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. This state of the art training facility and stadium encapsulates perfectly U.S. Soccer's focus on facility and player development in the new millennium.
FAVOR THE BOLD
The strongest evidence of the mark U.S. Soccer is making worldwide can be seen in the fact that the U.S. Soccer National Team programs have qualified for 19 consecutive FIFA outdoor world championships (a number currently surpassed only by Brazil). In 2002, U.S. Soccer was the only federation in the world to lay claim to three major international championships, with the U.S. Men’s and Women’s Teams sweeping their way to CONCACAF Gold Cup crowns and the U.S. Under-19 Women’s National Team winning the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship
The U.S. Men’s Olympic Soccer Team shocked soccer followers at the 2000 Sydney Games, finishing fourth, drawing with eventual champion Cameroon and lasting longer than traditional powerhouses such as Nigeria and Brazil. For the U-20 MNT, similar success awaited them at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates. The team was seconds away from a semifinal berth, but had to settle for a fifth-place finish in the tournament after stoppage time and overtime goals from Argentina ended the squads record-setting run. Also in 2003, the U-17 MNT matched their U-20 counterparts with a fifth-place finish at the U-17 World Championship in Finland behind the inspired play of Freddy Adu, who appeared in both world championships for the U.S.
More predictions lurkers please :thumbs2:
Make your first post here a good one :thumbs:
.. that should be their goal ! :rolleyes: :D
Looks like John Terry will be missing from the defense after all, with Ferdinand out too I'm very worried about conceding goals. Dammit!