July 14, 201410 yr I can't see the big teams that flopped this time around (England, Portugal, Spain, Italy) doing nearly as bad in the next World Cup. Gutted it's all over. But not long until the actual football season starts up again!
July 14, 201410 yr My views on the 32 teams of the World Cup: Brazil- Lucky, Humiliated by Germany, Holland Croatia- Unlucky, solid, woeful Cameroon- Dreadful Mexico- So near but so far again Spain: Shadow of 2010 Holland: Brilliant- Contender for Euro 2016 Chile: Good Australia: Came up short Colombia: Exciting Greece: OK Japan: Poor Ivory Coast: Robbed Uruguay: Bit into the last 16 Costa Rica: Brave England: Crap Italy: OK then to run out of ideas Switzerland: Average Ecuador: Came up short France: Good Honduras: Kicked Argentina: Second Nigeria: Top 2 African Team Bosnia: Nerves Iran: Not quite enough Germany: Winners USA: Team to respect Portugal: One-man team Ghana: Came up short against tough opposition Belgium: The Young Ones Algeria: Plucky underdogs Russia: Capello curse South Korea: Not good enough
July 14, 201410 yr Suedehead's Alternative 2014 World Cup Awards The rubbish commentary award If it was measured over the tournament as a whole ITV’s Sam Matterface would be the clear winner for his sheer ineptitude and his apparent inability to understand how the tournament worked. However, the individual worst commentary has to be the BBC’s Jonathan Pearce for his total failure to grasp the basics of goal-line technology on the France v Honduras game. Best commentary moment The BBC commentator in the Brazil v Germany semi-final for his comment shortly after the score went to 5-0 “If you’ve just switched on, that scoreline is not a mistake”. Most confused pundit Glenn Hoddle for believing that Al Jazeera is a country. Worst co-commentator A tie between Andy Townsend and Mark Lawrenson. The latter’s surname should be pronounced Lore-renson with the emphasis on the second syllable as a tribute to his failure even to attempt to pronounce players’ names correctly. Swine-styger anyone? Best goal celebrations Colombia for their dancing Most pointless goal celebration Brazil after their “consolation” goal in the semi-final. Wembley tribute award All the stadiums which had large numbers of empty seats for the first few minutes after the start of the second half. Nostalgia award The few players (mostly goalkeepers) who played in black boots. Silliest haircut Palacio (followed by the referee with the comb-over). Most pleasant surprise After a number of players (including Neymar in the opening game) escaped a red card FIFA did not order a massive clampdown with the result that all matches ended with at least 21 players on the pitch. It meant that some players continued to be very lucky to stay on the pitch but it also showed that it is possible to be relatively lenient without matches descending into a succession of nasty fouls.
July 15, 201410 yr There was no worse co-commentator than Clarke Carlisle. Lawro is brilliant, just for the comedy :D
July 15, 201410 yr There was no worse co-commentator than Clarke Carlisle. Lawro is brilliant, just for the comedy :D The trouble is Lawrenson is the only person who thinks he is funny.
July 15, 201410 yr The trouble is Lawrenson is the only person who thinks he is funny. I find him hilarious :lol: Some great Lawro quotes down the years!
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