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Rash
Member #2,374
May 2002
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Hey, how come nobody here is discussing what's arguably the Most Important Tournament on this planet? |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Sports suck. -- |
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DanielH
Member #934
January 2001
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World Cup. What's that?! |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Well, Argentina must be favourites now after france lost to senegal. Spain looked good in their win too, until we see italy and brazil play we don't know about them. Sadly for myself, England started another tournament yet again with an inept performance. Not a problem if we had an easy second game opponent.. but it's argentina... oh....
Still at least we were better than Saudia Arabia. |
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Ultio
Member #1,336
April 2001
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I agree with 23 and DLH. --- |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Then you have my pity..
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SonShadowCat
Member #1,548
September 2001
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DOWN WITH ENGLAND!!! |
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superstar4410
Member #926
January 2001
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sports rock, I guess for me its because i get the bests of both worlds, being a nerdy coder, and a athelete the us, is young to the world cup The the rest of the world is crazy about it. Its the only single sport that the whole world comes togethere to play (not including olmypics which is composed of various sports) Don't take yourself too seriously, but do take your responsibilities very seriously. |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Quote: I guess for me its because i get the bests of both worlds, being a nerdy coder, and a athelete Nothing wrong with playing sports. I just don't get sitting around watching others play it. Not my thing I guess .... -- |
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FrankyR
Member #243
April 2000
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I find soccer boring. |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Guess we don't have any football fans here..
Perhaps it's because some of you who replied are from countries that aren't really 'into' football. I suppose if you had other english, spanish, italian, korean, etc.. people here than there would be more chance of finding other 'football fans' |
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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Not really. -- |
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FrankyR
Member #243
April 2000
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Quote: some of you who replied are from countries that aren't really 'into' football Ya, go Canadian soccer team! We're gonna win the world cup this year!!:) |
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DanTheKat
Member #1,990
March 2002
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shiver shiver shiver
SPORTS ARE EVIL! SPORTS ARE EVIL!! RUN!
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da_flo
Member #1,907
February 2002
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As I am french, I am quite interested in the world cup ( 6 or 8 years ago, when we were too bad, nobody cared ). But no it's all over. Our team SUCKS !!! WE ARE THE LOSERS, MY FRIENDS .... PS : Congratulations for spellcaster and Germany for the 8:0. We only beat them 4:0 4 years ago ( but Zidane had got a red card |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Quote: Guess we don't have any football fans here.. -- |
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miran
Member #2,407
June 2002
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I use to like Allegro.cc but now I see you're just a group of nerds I'm not so sure anymore. R.Phipps: Spain did NOT look good in their first game. In fact if the referee was someone who actually passed his eyesight test it would have finnished 2:2 (can you tell I'm from Slovenia?). And I'm really sorry about England 'couse apart from Slovenia they are my favourite team but they just can't play well in big tournaments. As far as favourites goes, I think Argentina have a good chance, maybe also Italy but it depends on their first game later today. -- |
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SystemDown
Member #663
September 2000
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pfft. Where I come from, football == Rugby League, not soccer. The biggest Rugby League "tournament" outside the world cup is being played at the moment. It's an annual three match series between Queensland and New South Wales (two Australian states), dubbed "The State of Origin". It has a HUGE following here, and equally so in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Basically it is supposed to be the pinnacle of Rugby League in the Southern Hemisphere, with the best players in Australia duking it out to either win or retain the trophy proclaiming them the best footy players in the country. New South Wales won the first match, but I'm hoping Queensland will win the second match (since it's being held in my home state, Queensland). But anyway.. Australia can't play soccer ("football") for nuts. They were supposed to be able to make the World Cup but failed miserably (again). Funny how one of the teams we lost to (Saudi Arabia) got flogged by Germany 8-0. Must say a lot about the quality of Australian soccer players...
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Australia do have a few good players. Viduka and Kewell have been outstanding in the last few seasons here in England. I don't know about Saudi Arabia, I remember them scoring that amazing goal last time which is now ranked no. 7 in the best world cup goals of all time. But they were absolutely dire against Germany, who I think will find things much harder against Ireland and Cameroon. I saw the first half of the spain game when they were rather lucky to get a goal, and the highlights of the second when they seemed to be playing much better. But highlights can be deceiving. Spellcaster: I didn't say you WOULD be a football fan if you lived in a country where football is popular, just it would be MORE likely you would be interested in it. When I lived in America only people in the colleges seemed even slightly interested in football. It's really not that popular there yet. However when I went to germany a few years ago I saw a lot of interest in football there. I'm sure that's the same in France, spain, italy, etc.. It's definately popular in England, especially now! |
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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Of course we're nerds! Embrace your nerdiness ... it roxx0rs j00r boxx0rs! Anyways, I can't stand football. God, I hope they all get bludgeoned to death by football supporters wielding deflated footballs. Or osmethne (see, obscure reference!). -- |
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FrankyR
Member #243
April 2000
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Soccer (or football) would be better if the field was shrunken, the number of players per team was reduced to 5, all the players could hold wooden sticks, the ball was changed into a flat hard rubber disc, and the grass was transformed into ice. |
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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I say allow the players to use heavy weaponry, like maces. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Hide land mines in the pitch. -- |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Sorry Rash, There's too many of these football haters to reason with.. Still, they don't realise what they are missing do they? Who do you support Rash? |
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Zaphos
Member #1,468
August 2001
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Grass transformed to ice? But that would be spikey and very painful to the feet!
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There's my opinion.
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