ORIGINAL: shunwick
You may not be the only troll on the forum. [:D]
Best wishes,
Steve
Awww man...trolled in turn! [:D]
Moderator: maddog986
ORIGINAL: shunwick
You may not be the only troll on the forum. [:D]
Best wishes,
Steve
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Er whateves as the cool kidz say - I've long since lost my mind and am easily confused. So please stop attempting to use humor-I'm British! [:)] England are in the semi-final so nothing can upset my equilibrium today [:)]
kORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: shunwick
You may not be the only troll on the forum. [:D]
Best wishes,
Steve
Awww man...trolled in turn! [:D]
warspite1ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
I'll go out on a limb and call for France to face off with Belgium in the finals.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: warspite1
warspite1ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Ah. I heard that it was all about certain usual suspect European teams against other European teams. You know, a regional soccer tourney. Hardly representative of the world, mate. [:'(]
Not sure on your sources but you may wish to have a word
a) Many of the usual European teams are gone - Italy and Holland never made it and Germany are out
b) Please tell your source that Japan, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Egypt, Mexico etc. etc. etc. are not in Europe. Almost every country in the world attempted to qualify for the tournament and every continent (except Antarctica) was represented (albeit Australia got there via Asia [:)]). The second round of games saw representatives from Asia, Central and South America involved (unusually there was no African presence this time) although - very unusually - all South American presence was extinguished at the quarter final stage.
Representative of the world? Oh yes indeed.
Pfft...ancient history. I wasn't observing who attempted to qualify for the tournament or who was eliminated before this point. I'm just opining on the current status of the tourney. I'm also not saying that *all* of the usual European suspects are out.
I bet that if you ask representatives of every continent (save Europe) if the World Cup finals are representative of the world, a majority would say 'no'. [:'(]
But...I don't want to rain on your English parade. Congratulations on your victory in the quarter finals and advancement into the semifinals. [8D]
ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz
I don't think that Soccer (Football) is worse than other sports are. In fact I can come up with two very biased world championships that don't even allow teams from outside of one country access to it. I am talking about Baseball and Football (NFL).
ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz
I see. So I was a little off point, by one sport, but not by the other, which you didn't comment on. The main point however was that there are sports out there that are very much not a world-thing, but who claim to be world champions. Oh, and baseball is pretty popular in Japan.