Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
Iemanja said:word!
but I still want them to win
I think your allowed to want them to win ! If you were supporting England though I'd be worried !
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I think your allowed to want them to win ! If you were supporting England though I'd be worried !
colacho
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RenegadeDog said:
There are morons here in Colombia in England shirts, too. Not all of them are English.
On the Brazil thing, yes, there is a point to be made about those fuckers at Nike who own the team. The hype and packaging stinks. But in football terms the whining and whingeing comes only from leaden-spirited dullards who have not an ounce of poetry in them. They're resentful jobsworths who can't stand to see anything beautiful prosper.
Ooh-err, sounds like a fair description of most English footballers and fans to me.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
When Brasil play it's like Christmas - by which I mean that at Xmas all the pubs are packed out with idiots who only drink about twice a year, and with Brasil they're all full of tossers who have little or no interest in football at any other time. Very irritating.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
Dr. Furface said:
indeed. regurgitating all the crap that they've read in the papers / heard john motson say.
brazil is not some sort of blessed utopia full of toothy natural genii playing football barefoot on the sand. their football team is not somehow more romantic or poetic than any other.
Australia played better than them on Sunday. Australia for god's sake.
tommers said:
Erm, but it is one of the few places in the world that you'll find huge teams of kids playing every day on the beaches of Rio. Even the waiting staff have their own league, kicking off in the early hours after the restaurants shut and going on till the sun breaks. Even pissy little villages in the desertified NW seemed to boast more playing teams than there were people.
Sure, England may be called the home of football. But in terms of participation and passion for the game, few countries get close to Brazil. And there's definitely an emphasis on skill and entertainment in the average Brazilian game - far removed from the workmanlike clogging of pub league football over here.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
two gripes
Roberto fuckin Carlos - why do they still let the little twat hog all the free kicks? He never scores from them any more. a man living on history and I laughed when I read the dail Mirror today and they named him The Most Over-rated Fottballer in the world.
Pele...just fuck off. I'm more interested in what Maradona has to say.
Roberto fuckin Carlos - why do they still let the little twat hog all the free kicks? He never scores from them any more. a man living on history and I laughed when I read the dail Mirror today and they named him The Most Over-rated Fottballer in the world.
Pele...just fuck off. I'm more interested in what Maradona has to say.
Bomber said:Excellent thread! All this Brazil are still wonderful a la Pele & Socrates eras is really starting to grate, especially the sychophantic commentators & pundits cooing over even the most mundane bits of ball control
They are getting slagged off good and proper in Brasil by the pundits, press and fans.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
Can't stand 'em
Well, I can, but I don't want them to win
Well, I can, but I don't want them to win
JTG said:
Oh, it's brutal alright, but there's still an emphasis on trickery and ball skills in most games. Just don't get expect too much protection from the referee - witness Kerlon's 'seal' dribble for inspiration for example, followed by a succession of head-high kicks to take him down.
And even the farmers' league and amateur teams tend to slow things down and value impudent passing and trickery, right from childhood through to old age.
Agree about the sexy female fans, but not the strip. Have always like Netherlands' strip the best.
TheLostProphet said:I didn't watch the Brazil game, only the highlights - Croatia v Australia was tasty though.
must admit i wished i had watched that now but that had craig moore, mark(o) viduka and dado poorshow - the japanese had nakamura - as a celtic fan the choice was clear...
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Chorlton said:
You know what - Dado lives up to his bhoy given surname
Viduka had a cracking game as the lone ball holding up striker; and Moore cooly put the penno away.
Zeko Kalajc for Mark Schwarzer was amazing though - Kalajc can't actually keep goal. Reminiscent of Rab Douglas at his worst
<shudders>TheLostProphet said:Reminiscent of Rab Douglas at his worst
the funny thing is he wasn't our worst... i was slagging off the swedish keeper the other night in the england game, and my england supporting mate turned and said 'yeah cause magnus hedman should have been first choice...' - he had a point...
colacho said:There are morons here in Colombia in England shirts, too. Not all of them are English.
On the Brazil thing, yes, there is a point to be made about those fuckers at Nike who own the team. The hype and packaging stinks. But in football terms the whining and whingeing comes only from leaden-spirited dullards who have not an ounce of poetry in them. They're resentful jobsworths who can't stand to see anything beautiful prosper.
Ooh-err, sounds like a fair description of most English footballers and fans to me.
