Confederations Cup

[skel1983]

why I'm excited about this I don't know, it will just be frustrating as hell, our coach is distrustful of players that try to keep the ball away from the other team

Actually though the United States took the only point off Italy in the whole last World Cup, how that happens I don't fucking know

US should at the very worst take 3rd. Good win over egypt and perhaps a point from either brazil or italy and who knows what might happen.

Gotta believe it`ll be brazil-spain in the final though!!

For anyone wishing to put a few quid on the next world cup however do not look past argentina or the netherlands!!!

The same Argentina that lost 6-1 to Bolivia? Not sure why anybody would pick them out of all the favouritues with the form they have been showing in qualification.

Holland/Spain/England on the other hand....

England?? Lol come on mate there more chance of Gordon Brown winning the next election, England are shite, did you miss them against Spain in Feb? It was a massacre, Spain,Brazil,Argentina,Holland,Germany,Italy and France i would take over England everyday off the week.

[Master]

I am seriously considering putting money on Spain to win the world cup, I had a sneaking feeling Barcelona were going to win the CL before the competition started but thought after the Chelsea match that I was lucky since Man Utd were going to beat them and look what happens. So do not want the same regret again.

[OumaFan]

To get through to the second round the United States had to somehow have this happen, Brazil had to beat Italy 3-0 and we had to beat Egypt 3-0

Final Scores

Brazil 3- Italy 0
U.S. 3- Egypt 0

Bahahahaha.

[Master]

Brazil were awesome against Italy.

[OumaFan]

Shit, I think that means we have to play Spain

[OumaFan]

That makes me feel a bit better about the tournament, in retrospect we've now hammered Egypt who are not a bad side and were playing to get into the second round (they were in a much better position than us obviously) and we really didn't play bad against Italy, we were just a man down for about 60 minutes.

The Brazil game was a debacle of nightmarish proportions, but meh, they're pretty good.

BTW John Harkes is a fucking idiot.

[LEGION]

Ahhhh, the soothing sounds of horns blowing all day, gotta love it

[OumaFan]

although it has to be said Italy looks to have some issues at the moment.

the horns are annoying, I guess that will be the theme song of the World Cup.

[ono]

US should at the very worst take 3rd. Good win over egypt and perhaps a point from either brazil or italy and who knows what might happen.

Gotta believe it`ll be brazil-spain in the final though!!

For anyone wishing to put a few quid on the next world cup however do not look past argentina or the netherlands!!!

The same Argentina that lost 6-1 to Bolivia? Not sure why anybody would pick them out of all the favouritues with the form they have been showing in qualification.

Holland/Spain/England on the other hand....

England?? Lol come on mate there more chance of Gordon Brown winning the next election, England are shite, did you miss them against Spain in Feb? It was a massacre, Spain,Brazil,Argentina,Holland,Germany,Italy and France i would take over England everyday off the week.

Yeah but thats a typically English thing to do. Over-rate everybody else while under-rating our chances. You don't have to be the best side to win the world Cup. You just have to be in the mix and a decent draw and a bit of luck can go a long way. Spain in Feb was a friendly and at best was a 2nd string team. Looking at competitive games and England have been right up there with the best of them.

Italy don't look up to much imo. Ageing team who don't seem to have any major talents coming through.

Brazil probably have the weakest squad they have had for a while. So weak that Elano is a starter when he can't dislodge Ireland from the team at City. Roberto carlos has gone, Ronaldinho is a shell of a once world class player, Ronaldo is fat and finished - so is Adriano, Kaka isn't quite the same player anymore after 2 years of injury after injury. Defensively they aren't so strong. They do have a top class keeper but even in qualifying they have been up and down.

Germany don't have anything that particularly worries me. They will be there or there abouts but i'd fancy our chances.

Argentina - much like Brazil, have been up and down. 6-1 loss to Bolivia a prime example.

Obviously you can't discount any of the above but i wouldn't say they have a much better chance than England.

The only teams i would worry about are Spain and possibly Holland.

[OumaFan]

Spain's starting 11 look a bit better than ours on paper

[OumaFan]

haha we've actually played kind of ridiculously well but nothing

[Master]

USA could pull this off

[OumaFan]

1-0 on a nice goal actually but we have to score a second (at least), they're just putting too much pressure on.

[OumaFan]

LOL I'm listening to a British stream and it is a bit of "how bad are Spain fucking up to be losing this" haha, I'm not bitter, they are Spain.