The Official World Cup 2010 Thread

[Oggie]

They have no chemistry....they can have all the stars they want to but if you lack chemistry and cohesion then you won't win anything. GREAT result for the US but we NEED to demolish Algeria.

We should look for Buddle and Edu to start and Gomez, Feilhaber, and Holden to sub.

I think chemistry is one problem, but I think the hard fact is that the players are simply not that good. They have zero creativity... In my opinion, most of their good performances at club level are due to the ton of creative foreign players all around them. I think the only genuinely very good players in the team are Rooney, Gerrard and Cole. The rest are simply decent.

But, you know what will happen after the tournament - Capello will catch a sh*tstorm and possibly get sacked, and excuses like 'fatigue' and 'over training' will come to light too. Anything but accept that they simply have sub-par talent at the moment. Then the hype will begin again for Euro 2012, and I'll find myself more than likely writing this message again.

Would it ever occur to anyone that Algeria are basically just as good as England (talent wise) at the moment? Same goes for the USA.

[killersheep]

They have no chemistry....they can have all the stars they want to but if you lack chemistry and cohesion then you won't win anything. GREAT result for the US but we NEED to demolish Algeria.

We should look for Buddle and Edu to start and Gomez, Feilhaber, and Holden to sub.

I think chemistry is one problem, but I think the hard fact is that the players are simply not that good. They have zero creativity... In my opinion, most of their good performances at club level are due to the ton of creative foreign players all around them. I think the only genuinely very good players in the team are Rooney, Gerrard and Cole. The rest are simply decent.

But, you know what will happen after the tournament - Capello will catch a sh*tstorm and possibly get sacked, and excuses like 'fatigue' and 'over training' will come to light too. Anything but accept that they simply have sub-par talent at the moment. Then the hype will begin again for Euro 2012, and I'll find myself more than likely writing this message again.

Would it ever occur to anyone that Algeria are basically just as good as England (talent wise) at the moment? Same goes for the USA.

Well for all the 3-0, 4-0, 5-0 talk for England before both the US and Algeria games, I think your point is definitely proven. Tons of hype, if they don't make it out of the group round (which is a possibility) I'm just going to sit back and laugh. Seriously I've never heard so much hype for a team.

[BIG H]

We are shit!! Plain and simple! Overpiad and therefore undermotivated! And what is it about the England team that turns once good managers into clueless kunts. The average man in the street can see better than Capello waht the problem is and which team should be picked. His substitution are beyond belief in their sh1teness!!

[OumaFan]

I can't believe I'm actually contemplating us getting out of the group with 3 points Seems absurd but its possible now. England look broken so I wouldn't be totally shocked if they drew with Slovenia and we've scored 3 goals compared to their 1.

But that's all shit. We just need to win the game, we do, were in.

[El Kabong]

If I was England's manager I'd go with

-----------------------Rooney--------------------
-----Lampard-------------------Gerrard---------
----------------------------------------------------
--Lennon-----------Carrick-----------------------
----------------------------------------Johnson---
----Cole------Terry-----Carragher---------------
----------------------James------------------------


Yeah the formation is a bit askew but I figure Lennon and Johnson can place crosses from outside, Gerrard and Lampard can attack to the middle or place crosses from outside and Rooney can be on the receiving end of all of them.....but I'm just an America, what do I know about soccer?

[El Kabong]

Re: refereeing in the World Cup....World Cup Officials should come from the Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A ONLY (maybe the Bundesliga)....we can't have this Busch league bullshit deciding games, that was this dude's FIRST World Cup match.....one can only hope it's his last


FIFA (like the UN) have this idiotic idea that "everyone" must be represented regardless of how good or poor they actually are....it's idiotic. You wouldn't let a SAL league Ump do the World Series, you wouldn't let an MLS ref do the Champions League Finals, and you shouldn't let this idiot from Mali ref the World Cup!!!!

[El Kabong]

Would it ever occur to anyone that Algeria are basically just as good as England (talent wise) at the moment? Same goes for the USA.

I always thought Algeria was the one to worry about because they are scrappy, they whipped up on Egypt whom we had big trouble with.

The US could face retaliation by refs from arguing against that blown call (that's ALWAYS a reality for Americans).

We're going to come out on a mission vs Algeria (as are they) and we have to convert. We need Dempsey and Altidore to do more....Donovan willed us to a draw, that's a fact.

England has individual talent but why they don't work well together is beyond me....you'd think Rooney would have done more but I guess teams have figured out Stop Rooney = Stop England.....you guys desperately needed Owen or someone of his calibre and they need Beckham for set pieces. They really should have brought Johnson along....horrible results for them, I'd be devistated if I was British..........


........and I'd also be worried about the soccer team, BOOM hahahahahaha