what did you think of the world cup? (56)

....and well done you for being a good loser!

I know your head coach is blaming the ref, but I feel he did a reasonable job in trying to control it all...after all, it is the grandstand of football. Many refs would have produced mre red cards..and yes, de Jong should have gone for that tackle.

I remember those days you mentioned...they played 'total' football in those days!

Thanks! We needed all the help we could get! As I think Spain needed it to boost their spirits......

Gosh... do I hear echos of good sportsmanship...

Well done marcel.. at least you are honest and not biased..

No idea why the

I am not against Holland and not rooting for Spain, just stating facts and the way things were.[/quote

There has been paying back in football to what concerns kung fu. Yesterday, was not the case nor was in an attack...
Extra stress, vuvuzelas, the fact that the Spanish had beaten the best team-Germany...

Had been

thanks Steve for your knowledge... but hun... can you just type out the word in full.... WC gives me connotation to our water closet...

Jeez, look what you've done...now I gotta go...

I love to watch how they play as a team instead of bragging about the stars. Love the Swiss, the USA and the Germany !!!

Sorry, you've lost me totally..no idea what you mean by 'paying back'.

And, are you blaming the extra stress and vuvuzelas for losing???

Piss off then

Some yellow cards are a result of pay back. Yesterday was mostly clash.

I just named a few factors for stressed behaviour and not for losing. Whahaha

hahahaha awwwwwwh hun,, U no U luv me...

but seriously,,, zzzzzz time now...

have a good day Steve...


and thanks for the chat tonight ladies and gent..

Well it wasn't the strategy which the Dutch wanted to see. From the first match they played people were complaining about this strategy. But this strategy was bourne after the EC 2 years ago, where the Dutch team played nice football(so I have heard) but got kicked out of the tournament by Russia. Now they were going for results only no matter how it looked like.

Personally I prefer to watch a nice and sportive match and if a team looses then they can say they have given their best but with all the money involved it seems that entertaining the fans is last in line. Well, you can see this during the whole tournament, I think it is the worst I have ever seen.

Football is becoming like chess became in the 1990s. Chess stopped being an innovative, intuitive and attacking game, and became one of memorization and evaluation. Football has gone the same way, entirely about coaching systems to defend the 18 yard box from every possible attack before even thinking about offense.

Football needs a shakeup. FIFA should adopt an old rule from the North American Soccer League (NASL), the 35 yard line.

In regulation football, offside begins at the centre line, 55 yards from the goal. With the NASL's 35 yard line, players could be onside 35 yards from goal line, 20 yards into the opponent's zone. It made teams much more aggressive (long passes, goalies punting the ball far) and stretched the teams up and down the field, creating more space and more goals.

The NASL also had an interesting points system, though I doubt FIFA would go for it: six points for a win (no ties, there was overtime and shootouts), and bonus points for goals scored, up to three. Examples:

Team A beats Teams B 1-0 --> Team A gets 7, Team B gets 0

Team C beats Teams D 4-3 --> Team C gets 9, Team D gets 3

Or how about adopting rubgy's points system? Award four points for a win, two for a tie and none for a loss, with a bonus point for scoring at least three goals (in rubgy the bonus is for four tries) and a bonus point for losing by one goal.

Team A beats Teams B 1-0 --> Team A gets 4, Team B gets 1

Team C beats Teams D 4-3 --> Team C gets 5, Team D gets 2

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No thanks. The best game of the tournament was Spain versus Paraguay.

Despite the 1-0 score, both teams were aggressive, creative, and exciting to watch. Just as importantly, despite all the collisions and contact between feet and legs, only one player - Ramos - took a dive throughout the game, and he only did that once. When the players went down, they didn't act like they had been shot, they just got up again and dusted themselves off.

I can't recall another game that was as well played or as clean.

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Sorry, didn't see this, sleep well