World Cup

[Golfxzq]

Congrats... HBL.... Good game!

Now... Wednesday and Sunday should be interesting!!! Looking forward to a good cold one to celebrate with someone...

[12bar]

@HBL:

[VikingBlues]

Holland are doing really well - there's a lot of high profile players who have not been much in evidence in this world cup. Arjen Robben has been very much in evidence. With Germany playing with such resolve, purpose and skill there must be a good chance of those two meeting in the final.

And that will be interesting, if only for how it might cramp our style in suggesting who we might want to win.

It would be the best two teams playing in the final though. Stop sucking up to "the management" Viking.

[HalfBlindLefty]

@HBL:

[12bar]

We'll see this evening (although I'm not a die-hard football/soccer fan)...

[HalfBlindLefty]

Neither am I, but in this case I'm quite willing to make an exception :)

[HalfBlindLefty]

Sorry Gerd

[Strummer07]

Gerd ...................I am sorry for you !! your team has been the team of the tournament ...........until tonight !

Both teams played played well ..............BUT .....Germany met a Spanish team in full flow.

Best game of the tournament by far (for me) and Spain were awesome ......in defence they just never gave Germany a chance !! ....closed everything down ..........usually 4 or 5 players massing in defence ..and then some stunning passing out ...best passing sequences in the 2nd half I can recall from the Spanish.

and they should have scored at least once more and probably twice in the 2nd half ......when Pedro ?? did not pass to Torres , who was wide open in the box ....who wasn't screaming at the screen ...."Pass it " "Pass it " !!!


There will be some heavy heads in Spain tomorrow !!!

So Holland Versus Spain in the finals ............who would have guessed that ????


Roll on Sunday .............gonnna be a good game

could be some beer drunk ...all over the world !! .but especaily in Holland ( Oranjeboom !!) and Spain ( St Miguel )



I will be sipping the odd glass of ...........San Miguel !!

[12bar]

No problem, Spain was better... congrats! They're young, maybe next time. Good luck HBL!

The true reason is - we're leaving for holiday on Saturday and we wanted empty streets.
So now they have to play on Saturday and everyone watches TV

[Golfxzq]

Ahhhh... alas.. I will have to give up my dreams of being a bookie. My prediction of Germany taking it all did not come to pass.

Sorry 12 Bar.... and Congrats again HBL.

Anyone on here from Spain? It should be a rip-roaring-good-time on Sunday. Let's break out the suds

[MojoJim]

I was rooting for Germany as well. I thought we ought to keep the final game "in house".

Oh, well. I'll look for that young German team in four years in Brazil.

Congrats, HBL. I'm looking forward to a big party on Sunday.

[Golfxzq]

Well.... it's all over but the beer drinkin'.

It was a real tight game... shows how well matched the two teams were!

To Germany and Netherlands but second and third in the World ain't all that bad

Congrats to Spain on your win.

[VikingBlues]

Well.... it's all over but the beer drinkin'.

It was a real tight game... shows how well matched the two teams were!

To Germany and Netherlands but second and third in the World ain't all that bad

Congrats to Spain on your win.

Golfxzq has put it so well so I'll just agree with all that is said above.

I feel sorry for some of the players who tried so hard for the teams that didn't quite make it. Two in particular. Bastian Schweinsteiger who seems to have reinvented himself and played so well as a holding midfielder with great distribution skills. And I was surprised to see Gio Van Bronckhorst playing in these world cup finals - I remember him as an outstanding player for Glasgow Rangers in 1998-2001 when our two boys were still children and playing football in the garden when we first moved to our current house. He certainly played really well for an "oldie".

Commiserations to Hans and Gerd.

[HalfBlindLefty]

Ah well, there will be a next time :)
I'm proud of the fact that the Dutch have showed us all how to make this thing in to one big (orange) party just like we always do with speed skating on a smaller scale

[Bluesmole]

Well done Spain!
I'm sorry to say(HBL), that the Dutch team get my "BEST ACTING" award for the duration of the World Cup.
And the England team ??? Well...........!!!
Thank the Lord for the Blues!

[Strummer07]

I thought the best team of the tournament won through in the end.
Spain thoroughly deserved to win .....congratulations to them
Holland did really well to get to the final .......but then seemed to lose the plot.

I really did not like their style of play and the fouling play that they brought to the 1st half .they should have been down to 10 men by half time .....the tackle on Alonso was ugly and very dangerous .he'll have some unwanted marks on his chest this morning .. perhaps a cracked rib too.

I understand the Dutch desire to upset the Spanish flow and break passing and possession.....they just chose a real bad way to go about doing it.

It just took the edge off the final for me as a spectacle .........its wasn't a good advert for football

Best game of the tournament was probably Germany vs Spain in the Semi's and Iniesta gets my vote for man of the tournament.

Here's to Brazil in 2014 ...if the young German team continues to improve ..it could be exciting stuff.

England .....back to the drawing board ..along with France !!.....Both teams have some serious issues to resolve methinks.

Now we can all relax , turn off the televisions and get on with stuff ...life ........and all that kind of thing !!