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thank you, i edited my post now.. damn free website hosters seem to have f*cked up

You can upload to ESR for free!

still, why is your flag sometimes british and sometimes the other british (blue/red) :P

u mean English?

me not be good in geography

nEph powa tbh

it used to be :(

The Union Jack is my national flag, but the country I'm from is England, where we fly the St. George's Cross. For sporting events I'm usually represented by and English team so for the world cup I was wearing that flag.

they didn't deserve, france played a lot better.
too bad.

agreed, 2nd half france shud of scored! They played much better, pity they sucked in extra time :<

even worse that the penalty was so random. no one really screwed up, the keepers weren't even close to catching any penalties. just bad luck for trezeguet (iirc), sucks to lose like this :(

france gayed out brazil two times now, that's enough, and since italy threw out the two most gay teams out of the world cup they are my heros, no matter how they play
who throws out france and germany is the only important thing left when brazil is not in the world cup :P

it was deserved when you look at the whole cup. clearly the best team overall.

this wordcup proved again that an über-defensive 4-5-1 with unattractive, boring style beats any 4-4-2 (even brazil), who at least try to play nice football.

and i dont even blame them to choose against a spectator-friendly strategy, as the defensive play is just way more efficient - just look at greece.

what we will see is, however, that most of the teams will adopt. hooray eurocup.

regarding zidane vs mazeratti, read my comment here:
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1133363#pid1133748

France would fall into the 451 category? I think they were more Brazillian than MIBR.

please remove your anti-italy glasses please, because i have no idea what team you saw during this wc but it was not italy. it might have been old-prejudice-italy-from-1990, but it was not the 06 version.

for example, do you realize that italy finished their match vs germany with 4 forwards?

dont pick out ~15 min of a 120 min game, which was exactly the other way

the penalty for france was a joke. italy played very bad in the second half but we did more shots on the goal overall ;). we can play bad and win because we have the best defence of the world. cannavaro & buffon <3

http://www.gazzetta.it/Fotogallery/Tagliate/2.../ES/12.JPG
gattuso <3 <3 <3 <3

lol gattuso sucks balls.

you wish! :D
the 2nd best player of the world cup right after cannavaro. :)

Catannacio biaaatch.

not as catenaccio as the national team of the trapattoni's era. :)

Respect to Buffon, he is the best.

idd!

sure he has a lot of will to play, but no skill at all.

zidane, what an idiot!

ITALYYYYYYYYYYYY

FORZA ITALIA

LMAO@Zidane

france should've won it .. yada yada yada.. the truth is .. italy put the ball in the net atleast once more when the guy was offside and one time it hit the bar.. so with that respect.. italy already had won it ..

stupid arguments..

zidane did the right thing.. ZEZU FOR THE WIN..

france dominated the entier 2nd half and extra time untill everyone was exhausted.

but they lost eventually .. and the penalty that did miss wasnt that big a miss either..

fr shoulda had a 2nd pen b4 that...

viva italia

Even tough italians can't speak english and Stermy wears black socks... they rock! This was probably the first football game wich I saw for almost two or three years now and I enjoyed it very much!

im usually no germany-fan, but i have to admit that every game of them was far more fun to watch than any game of the italians.

...at least if you dont like defensive games and brutal fouls.

p.s.: the plus was a mistake

fun tactics is different to winning tactics.
the two finals teams was the two with the best defence.
this is a fact in modern football. :)

ye, as i wrote in commment #32, its a sad tendency :)

and is actually nothing to smile about :x

the smile is only there so that my italo-influenced friend above doesnt get offended without intention ;) the emphasis certainly lies on "sad" :-|

maybe if they throw away the offside rule as it is now...

heh, nobody of the non-footballers understand it anyway ;)

i think we dont have to touch the offside rule. i rather could imagine teams playing with 3 strikers in the future, while two of them are somewhat a mix between midfielder and striker, the style klose has played in the german team. to put huge pressure on the defense and bind the opposing team in their own half. i am pretty sure there are measures against this 4-5-1 system. i mean, it is pretty easy, at least on paper, less offensive players means that teams playing against this system must fear less attacks. italy, france, england and whole lot of other teams are a good example for this, they just don't shoot many goals. or look at germany, two strikers with a "good" defense, not nearly as good as the french or italian, but it worked...almost ;)

well... in the group stage we used 4-3-1-2 (totti -> toni & gilardino)

you are right, i made a mistake here. but i think the fact is still valid, i mean in the single elimination, when it mattered, they played always 4-5-1. the irony is, they played best in the overtime versus germany, where they had like 5 purely offensive players on the field ;)

that was pure gold :Q
it remember me italy VS germany 4-3 in mexico 1970 :)
what an epic battle! *_*
respect!

yes. right before the match on tuesday they aired that game in full length with original commentary on a german documentary channel. awesome. "ausgerechnet schnellinger" every german interested in football should know that phrase ;)

brutal fouls?

I don't know about it. I just fucking enjoyed that game! :)

Italy somehow i'm not impressed

This was Zidanes last game, or last world cup. Sad way to go out by losing and trying to break someone's sternum.

Italia! \o/

Well, he didn't score, so he had to put that big head to some use...

If you're talking about Zidane: He scored the first goal in the match (even though it was a bit lucky)

toxic still took the real win away from italy (stermy), so it is a weak attempt to prove anything there stony =)

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Everyone (i) remembers Eric Cantona for his flying ninja judo kick on a fan long after his on field accomplisments have been forgotten.

Zidane will be a truly immortal figure thanks to this moment.

I propose that the term headbutt be legally reclassified as Zidane attack.

wrestling commentary in the future...

"there's a flying Zidane of the top rope"

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/1/2/5/125e06...5e584b.gif

pure genius =)

rofl

GOOD... stuff the french, zidane disgraced himself...

great defence thru out the tournement by Italy particularly Gattuso and Canavarro (sp??)

I'm glad for italy, still france deserved the win a bit more, they controled them like polos controls girls in the 2nd half.

POLOS RULEZ

IS

i dont know much about football and didnt know that italy was supposedly a physical team. i only watch usa vs italy and all i saw all game was italians falling to the ground and being taken off on stretchers, which was complete bs btw as they would hop back up and get back into play like 2 minutes later. bunch of girls imo. theyd fall down if someone so much as looked at them funny. totally hilarious.

yeah, italy is the argentina of europe.

ehhh if you ask me, portugal are far worse in that department but yeah, i guess italy is more renouned :P

thats football man, (nearly) everyone does this shit nowadays. thats why watching games of the south-african teams were so refreshing!

truth

the flying ronaldo :P

heh totally :) he got punished by the spectators in every game tho :>

Should have seen the other Ronaldo.

usa players were fucking dangerous. in a couple of actions they were really close to injury our players.

that's american football for you ;)

i don't think so

i was referring to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32...CSU_AF.jpg