Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:59 pm  

Booooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:01 pm  

McClennan wrote:

Oh I don't know. Holland v Germany in a World Cup Final? Yes sir!

I'm just hoping for a new winner.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:06 pm  

Boularouz has looked a much more competent defender during the world cup than he did on our shores.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:09 pm  

Unless Uruguay pull off a blinding comeback, I think I'm right in saying it'll be the first time a European team have won it on another continent. Brazil the only team to have won it outside of their own continent IIRC. Surely not coincidental that it's a winter tournament rather than the usual severe heat that's resulted in it.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:09 pm  

andym1988 wrote:

Boularouz has looked a much more competent defender during the world cup than he did on our shores.

He did in the Euros as well IMO.

[Matt_Horton]

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:16 pm  

carl_spackler wrote:

Unless Uruguay pull off a blinding comeback, I think I'm right in saying it'll be the first time a European team have won it on another continent.

Correct

carl_spackler wrote:

Brazil the only team to have won it outside of their own continent IIRC.

If you are being picky, not quite correct. Argentina in Mexico in 1986 won it in the CONCACAF region when being a CONMEBOL association.

Brazil, also CONMEBOL, have won in CONCACAF (twice), UEFA and AFC areas.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:17 pm  

carl_spackler wrote:

I'm just hoping for a new winner.

Well, Germany have never won the World Cup, and neither have Holland or Spain, so it's looking likely.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:27 pm  

Why didn't the ITV colour commentator speak at all during that match? I switched on late and didn't realise he was there at all until he blurted something out around the 60th minute, and he wasn't heard again. It was almost like listening to Dave Woods recorded commentary on the Super League Show, very surreal.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:21 pm  

Who else was commentating?

Talking of a poorly done job, has anybody been watching SSN? Their translations of the press conferences sound awful, lots of pauses, not confidently spoken and a real 'static' sound in the background. It's like they've rang somebody up and recorded it on't loudspeaker.

Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 : Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:26 pm  

headhunter wrote:

Why didn't the ITV colour commentator speak at all during that match? I switched on late and didn't realise he was there at all until he blurted something out around the 60th minute, and he wasn't heard again. It was almost like listening to Dave Woods recorded commentary on the Super League Show, very surreal.

There wasn't a co-commentator, Beglin was taken ill before kick-off.

I'm sure Tyldesley was trying to speak in two different voices at times though, thankfully that's the last I'll have to hear from him.