World Cup

[jiltedjohn]

Another good game and another good goal. As I predicted NIGERIA for the Cup.

[jiltedjohn]

I thought the matches were going to be halted every ten minutes for water breaks???
I think it was the US games where there were dehydration problems, are players fitter these days? Is the climate not as bad as it was made out? Or have the players just stayed aff the swally the night before?

[Superbia_In_Prodis]

Nigeria , Bosnia , and Iran would have been an excellent group of which we may have even finished top of

[chalky-ncfc]

If Nigeria and Iran was in our group then we may have got as high as third...

They have both played well in the games that i watched and i felt sorry for Iran when they lost against Argentina...

[Superbia_In_Prodis]

Have to say Iran were excellent today and Nigeria deserve to win this

[chalky-ncfc]

A good win for Nigeria and their first win since 96,it looked like Bosnia was going to nick a point in the last seconds though...

[Acido]

They were/are 2 very poor teams tonight, and it also makes you wonder whether there are too many (32) teams in the Finals.


England (for example) get drawn in a group with some of the harder teams like Italy & Uruguay. Whereas France get an easier group with the likes of Switzerland, Ecuador, & Honduras. Belgium & Russia as well get the likes of S.Korea & Algeria in their group, its not right that a tournament like this should also come down to the absolute luck of the draw!!

[jiltedjohn]

Just had a look at my Talksport predictor
Not good

[TundraWolf]

There may be a good argument to drop from 32 to 16 teams in the WC, Acido, but then we would miss out on the pleasant surprise of watching little Costa Rica "take it' to the big boys!

What I find a disappointment is the high number of missed fouls by the refs who seem terrified of calling for a penalty kick even on the most egregious fouls.

[jiltedjohn]

There's more chance of there being more teams than less, for global viewing figures and more MONEY.