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BoyBrumby · 27-07-2012, 03:58 AM

I normally don't pay much attention, but is the Olympics' football usually this ****house? Better teams look like they CBA and the ****ter teams are, well, ****ter.

MW1304 · 27-07-2012, 04:31 AM

The teams haven't been training for very long, and its a bunch of players who don't play together all that often, or at all in the case of GB, so it has a very pre-season feel about it. Also I'd imagine the smaller teams do take it more seriously than the footballing regulars so you get teams like UAE and Japan looking reasonably good.

BoyBrumby · 01-08-2012, 02:35 PM

They're a hard team to warm to, the Uruguayans. Petulent whining kickers.

Also irritates me how their occasional Liverpool defender "Coates", despite having a Scottish father who presumably spoke English, has his surname pronounced not as "coats" but "co-ar-tez". **** off.

Scaly piscine · 01-08-2012, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

They're a hard team to warm to, the Uruguayans. Petulent whining kickers.

Also irritates me how their occasional Liverpool defender "Coates", despite having a Scottish father who presumably spoke English, has his surname pronounced not as "coats" but "co-ar-tez". **** off.

That's a bit of a stretch.

wpdavid · 01-08-2012, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Scaly piscine

That's a bit of a stretch.

As for Uruguay, they've been this way ever since I started watching the game. tbf tonight's performance was pretty mild compared to the horrors they unleashed in previous generations.

flibbertyjibber · 01-08-2012, 03:21 PM

I saw my first 5 minutes of the football tonight and Suarez and co were moaning and scrapping for all of it. Not a massive fan of football in Olympics but glad we knocked them and him out. Maybe he can do a turn at Wimbledon tomorrow by eating an apple through Andy Murray's racket.

GIMH · 01-08-2012, 03:53 PM

Hmmm chances of us medalling?

MW1304 · 01-08-2012, 04:03 PM

Only Brazil are actually a better team than us, really, but its basically an England team. Bronze at best but I'd go for fourth place.

Uppercut · 01-08-2012, 04:07 PM

Ramsay and Bellamy are two of their best players tbf. They play some nice stuff, loving the Allen-Cleverly-Ramsay central midfield. Miles away from England stylistically.

BoyBrumby · 01-08-2012, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GIMH

Hmmm chances of us medalling?

South Korea in the quarters, so we're a good shout of the semis and then probably exit against Brazil.

Winning the group's done us no favours as the bottom half looks a piece of piss. One of Japan, Senegal, Mexico or Egypt is guaranteed a silver.

MW1304 · 01-08-2012, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Uppercut

Ramsay and Bellamy are two of their best players tbf. They play some nice stuff, loving the Allen-Cleverly-Ramsay central midfield. Miles away from England stylistically.

Haha meant more mentality and inevitability than style.

wpdavid · 02-08-2012, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Uppercut

Ramsay and Bellamy are two of their best players tbf. They play some nice stuff, loving the Allen-Cleverly-Ramsay central midfield. Miles away from England stylistically.

Substitute Wiltshire for Ramsay and I'd settle for that in Brazil in two years time.

flibbertyjibber · 02-08-2012, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by wpdavid

Substitute Wiltshire for Ramsay and I'd settle for that in Brazil in two years time.

Allen is Welsh

grecian · 02-08-2012, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by flibbertyjibber

Allen is Welsh

Yeah, I said awhile ago, I like the Welsh midfield, much more than the English, for the coming years, with the addition of Bale of course.

wpdavid · 02-08-2012, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by flibbertyjibber

Allen is Welsh

Ah well, nice thought.

27-07-2012, 03:58 AM	#31 (permalink)
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27-07-2012, 04:31 AM	#32 (permalink)
MW1304 International Debutant Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: South Central Posts: 2,608	The teams haven't been training for very long, and its a bunch of players who don't play together all that often, or at all in the case of GB, so it has a very pre-season feel about it. Also I'd imagine the smaller teams do take it more seriously than the footballing regulars so you get teams like UAE and Japan looking reasonably good.

01-08-2012, 02:35 PM	#33 (permalink)
BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,582	They're a hard team to warm to, the Uruguayans. Petulent whining kickers. Also irritates me how their occasional Liverpool defender "Coates", despite having a Scottish father who presumably spoke English, has his surname pronounced not as "coats" but "co-ar-tez". **** off.

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flibbertyjibber Cricketer Of The Year Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: England Posts: 7,905	I saw my first 5 minutes of the football tonight and Suarez and co were moaning and scrapping for all of it. Not a massive fan of football in Olympics but glad we knocked them and him out. Maybe he can do a turn at Wimbledon tomorrow by eating an apple through Andy Murray's racket.

01-08-2012, 04:03 PM	#38 (permalink)
MW1304 International Debutant Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: South Central Posts: 2,608	Only Brazil are actually a better team than us, really, but its basically an England team. Bronze at best but I'd go for fourth place.

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