Neowin's Official World Cup 2006 Thread

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Grand Master

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France won they deserved it, good first half both teams.

Good luck for both teams on the finals France and Italy.

Now it's time to have 3 or four pages of "portugal lost!!111 lolerskates OMFGZ.... Ronaldo suxorz" full of uk kiddies who care more about bashing the other teams then why they suck at footbal.

Maybe you could learn some sportsmanship and accept defeat for what it is, and remenber that when saying portugal sucks you are adminting to sucking even more lol.

Very well said :laugh:

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metallithrax

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Do the people saying that it was british fans booing r****do know for sure that they were british. Do you have proof or is it just an assumption on your part? Maybe they were just football fans voicing their concerns about the state of the game.

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Do the people saying that it was british fans booing r****do know for sure that they were british. Do you have proof or is it just an assumption on your part? Maybe they were just football fans voicing their concerns about the state of the game.

I don't know about you, but here in the US, they showed an English "clan" with English shirts on in the upper deck before the game. Also, if you looked at the right corner in the second half from where Portugal attacked, there were quite a few English flags, one which said "Southampton" on it, from what I recall. There were plenty of English supporters in today's game.

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Top and bottom of it Portugal don't play the game the way it should be played.

Play acting, diving, pleading for fellow professionals to be sent off, it's just not in the spirit of the game.

As for sportsmanship, I think Scolari summed it up at the end confronting the ref. Hopefully Fifa will be looking into it and try to stamp these antics out in future tournaments.

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PaulCabby

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I don't know about you, but here in the US, they showed an English "clan" with English shirts on in the upper deck before the game. Also, if you looked at the right corner in the second half from where Portugal attacked, there were quite a few English flags, one which said "Southampton" on it, from what I recall. There were plenty of English supporters in today's game.

Yeah. A minority group speaks for the whole of England. Rightttt :rolleyes:

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Well... too bad for Portugal. :cry: :cry:

Would have loved to see them advance.

Do not forget it is a small country (less than 11 million), so I feel even prouder they could reach this stage.

:yes: :yes:

All my congrats to FRANCE players !! :D

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metallithrax

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I don't know about you, but here in the US, they showed an English "clan" with English shirts on in the upper deck before the game. Also, if you looked at the right corner in the second half from where Portugal attacked, there were quite a few English flags, one which said "Southampton" on it, from what I recall. There were plenty of English supporters in today's game.

Well I didn't actually see the game (long story) :( , But I think a lot of football fans would have booed anyway (english or not) if people believe in fair play.

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You can have that goal, I recall winning 4-2 against the Germans.

Lets review what happened in Wembley that night, shall we?

Geoff Hurst may have scored the most dramatic World Cup goal ever, but his injury-time winner at Wembley was more important for diminishing the impact of his controversial second goal. Ten minutes into extra-time, Alan Ball crossed from the right to Hurst, who beat Schulz, controlled the ball first time and whacked it against the underside of the crossbar. The ball bounced down on the goalline and was cleared.

Referee Gottfried Dienst consulted his linesman, Tofik Bakhramov, who was a long way away from the action, but said the ball had crossed the line. To this day the debate still rages, though the multitude of action replays seem to side with the protesting Germans.

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Enough said... :whistle:

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L3thal - I think it is very sad to see a mod laying so heavily into the English at every opportunity. By all means criticise English fans that just can't accept we were knocked out fairly (despite a few contentious issues on both sides) - they annoy me as well - but please stop these digusting attacks against the English. You are provoking the situation when your position dictates you should be trying to calm it.

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I agree, they just can't accept defeat. And having stayed there just to boo Ronaldo is a good proof of that.

We didnt boo him it was your lot and how you know? you wasn't at the GAME :D

And funny how portugal loses it goes into a bash against england again yes we lost but ronaldo is a little kid. Needs to act his age. :cool:

France won they deserved it, good first half both teams.

Good luck for both teams on the finals France and Italy.

Now it's time to have 3 or four pages of "portugal lost!!111 lolerskates OMFGZ.... Ronaldo suxorz" full of uk kiddies who care more about bashing the other teams then why they suck at footbal.

Maybe you could learn some sportsmanship and accept defeat for what it is, and remenber that when saying portugal sucks you are adminting to sucking even more lol.

ROFL i think it's both sides that bashes each other. I agree i did abit of bashing but only because of a certain mod. :D

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shaywood

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What has this got to do with anything, this is exactly how you wind people up and warnings get handed out, hence my warning. Id suggest staying on topic "L3thal Neowin's Official World Cup 2006 Thread" (Thought Id do a bit of modderating due to the lack of it, going on in this topic)

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I don't know about you, but here in the US, they showed an English "clan" with English shirts on in the upper deck before the game. Also, if you looked at the right corner in the second half from where Portugal attacked, there were quite a few English flags, one which said "Southampton" on it, from what I recall. There were plenty of English supporters in today's game.

One deck of fans outvoiced the portugal fan support ? If so shame on portugal fans.

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L3thal - I think it is very sad to see a mod laying so heavily into the English at every opportunity. By all means criticise English fans that just can't accept we were knocked out fairly (despite a few contentious issues on both sides) - they annoy me as well - but please stop these digusting attacks against the English. You are provoking the situation when your position dictates you should be trying to calm it.

Oh, believe me, I am trying to calm this down by giving out facts to the misinformed about what happened in Wembley in '66. Apparently, everyone seems to think there was no controversy in that game and that England won it fairly.

Conjointly, I also think its sad that the English fans, or at least a good part of them, are still attacking Portugal and Ronaldo almost a week after their departure of the cup.

Myself, I accept this defeat and am not making up excuses, something that we heard lots of when Portugal beat England.

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FlibbyFlobby

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I'm really glad France won anyway, I don't think a team with such poor sportsmanship deserve to go to a World Cup final. I counted 5 blatant dives in that game from Portugal (Ronaldo, Miguel, Postiga and Figo are the ones I can remember), and the referee never booked any of them for it.

Either way I'm looking forward to the final. I hoped the Germans would get that far, but now I'm not too sure who to back for the win. Probably the French!

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