I got to hand it to him. If brazil winning means getting to watch those people celebrating on tv for several hours I will TOTALLY support it.

Hell, anyone but Italy. They should not have won last time.

Most brazil football fans are fat old men supporting them because of notions of how they play the game based on the 1960 world cups. Also it's not like they need to wi anymore.

What was wrogn with Italy winning it Gems? Apart from THAT game against Australia they played pretty well and you can't blame them for the penalty really.

On no no... yeah, we don't actually need to win this one. We just have to make it to the finals just to put the Full spotlight over Brazil's team again. Now, the NEXT world cup, that one we have to win... because it's going to be in Brazil. It would get very ugly very fast if we loose the world cup here.

Actually the last World Cup was quite ugly... most games were just really lackluster and the final was just... "meh", plus Italy got involved in a really messy situation that placed their position to even be at the world cup under suspicion. And there was also all that stuff with Zidane.... it was overall a very low key event.

Not that this one will be that much better. I mean, you can find dozens of reports online right now questioning if This cup has any change of being a success with some serious security issues and slow ticke sales...

On the technical side, i like to consider the Climate and environment and factor that in on how it might affect some of these players and teams.

The Zidane thing was nnot a slur on Italy but more France.
I thik this world cup already has failed due to the rampant shit it heaping on South Africa in complete opposite of what it was supposed to do. But there might be some good footballs.
I jut want Spain to lose. and England but that's a given. Noboy wants England to win.

Fut' balls comin' 'ome
 

Especially the English. Pretty sure most English people fully expect the choke by penalty thing! Been over 10 years and it still hasn't been shaken off.

At least there is hope in the Rugby Union and Cricket for them.

Kinda depressing I had that exact phrase in mind before I even got to the end.

They pretty shit at those too. Better than they are at football though. They somehow manage to win Rugby world cups despite their many flaws though. Not so much the cricket which is pretty much an australia/india/south africa bitch fight at the moment.
The have a shot at the League world cup too, one of only three teams who could win it.


And Argentina has thrown away their chance to win. When they put a drug addict in charge everyone kind of jokingly predicted his teams would be the result of wild mood swings. How right we were.

Is there anytime you actually like besides New Zealand Smarty? Actually, I'm sometimes surprised you like New Zealand...

like hats.
North Korean squad is a mess of Chol, Ri and Kim. I predict set piece carnage, complete inabiiltiy of other sides to mark properly.
Also if one team will be good at bombing on, it will be North Korea.

And their first game is with Brazil!

High-larious!

EDIT: Also, FIFA's website has this amazing Background comparison system where you can put any 2 teams and get their full Stats in detail. It's really great.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/index.html