Official World Cup Thread

**Fragony** · 06-23-2006, 07:46

Originally Posted by Soulforged

I've a question though. Many times I heard people refering to your country as Holanda (i.e. "Holland"), but then I hear Países Bajos (i.e. Netherlands). And I see that in your location it says Holland... My question is: How do you refer to yourselves then, as Holland or The Netherlands or Nederlands (as I saw in some flag)?

Holland is really just the western part of the Netherlands, us calling the country it kinda slipped in somehow.

**Big_John** · 06-23-2006, 16:37

ouch, tunisia got absolutely robbed. don't think anything could be worse than the reffing in the croatia/australia game, but this is certainly as bad. feel bad for tunisia, they are playing better with 10 than the ukraine is with 11. assuming this score holds, i'd say the ukraine is the least impressive team going through to the round of 16.

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 06-23-2006, 16:55

Originally Posted by Big_John

ouch, tunisia got absolutely robbed. don't think anything could be worse than the reffing in the croatia/australia game, but this is certainly as bad. feel bad for tunisia, they are playing better with 10 than the ukraine is with 11. assuming this score holds, i'd say the ukraine is the least impressive team going through to the round of 16.

Did you see what they did against Saudi Arabia though? It's pretty nice.

**Big_John** · 06-23-2006, 17:45

Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

Did you see what they did against Saudi Arabia though? It's pretty nice.

not sure what you mean.. did i see what the ukraine did against saudi arabia? sure, but the saudi's aren't a very good team. the ukraine hasn't shown anything to me in this first round. all they do is argue with each other and play individually. they should have lost this game, only the ref kept them from that. they look like a second-rate team. maybe their form will improve in the next round. they better hope it does.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 06-24-2006, 00:59

Allez les Bleus!!!11!!!!UN!!1!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Spain - France next! What a cracker, a true tradional.
Oh, and: Hopp Schwiiz!

**scotchedpommes** · 06-24-2006, 01:11

The Swiss have done well, and two nice goals for France as well - although
while I think Switzerland could take the Ukraine, I don't see France managing
Spain. But you never know, as Spain do have a habit of flopping at major
tournaments, don't they?

**Big_John** · 06-24-2006, 02:08

both france/spain and swiss/ukraine should be good matches. spain has looked very good, but they have a tendency to choke in the knock-out phases (maybe not this early though). france certainly has the talent to play with spain, but will they actually find their form, or will they play like they played through much of the 1st round? in the other match, neither the swiss nor the ukraine have looked particularly good to this point, imo. so that could be an exciting match-up, though the swiss have a tendency to make for boring matches, from what i've seen. hard games to pick.

**edyzmedieval** · 07-01-2006, 22:28

Vive la France!!!!!!

Great job by Zidane, Henry and Ribery.

**GiantMonkeyMan** · 07-01-2006, 22:43

NOOO!!!! england are out...

and my brother cried which made it a little better cos i had some reason to laugh... i didn't however, to busy hitting the TV in rage! gah! that ricardo was one lucky goalkeeper

now the whole of england will want to hunt down c ronaldo which will be funny come the next season... gah, i feel really down but at least brazil aren't going to win again but i really thought this was our year, i think that every world cup...