The World Cup 2006 thread

Round of 16 seems like it has all the powerhouse teams...curious how the TV ratings do in the US.

Sweet merciful crap that last goal by Argentina was amazing. Argentina-Germany should be brilliant to watch.

England were pretty poor, not connecting enough pass', tackling is getting haphazard.

Still, onwards we go, don't see us getting much further by todays performance.

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England were pretty poor, not connecting enough pass', tackling is getting haphazard.Still, onwards we go, don't see us getting much further by todays performance.

That Beckham's goal was awesome.

Ghana for the win.

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That Beckham's goal was awesome.

It was nice yea, but it looked to me like the shot was kinda weak, accurate tho.

Haha, cool match going on in there, Portugal - Netherlands

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Haha, cool match going on in there, Portugal - Netherlands

haha, more like the worst game. Bad bad ref. I know I complained about the USA-Italy game, but this was sooo worse. 16 cards!? 4 reds? jesus

I feel for Holland Your out! 0-2

20 yellow cards and 4 reds Mojo. A worldcup record

Game of the century!!!!

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I feel for Holland Your out! 0-2

It was 0-1 We went out with a big bang

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oh right, forgot about a the few towards the end, there were just soooooo many

That ref is going to get the shit kicked out of him if he leaves his hotel in Germnay.

Dirtiest game ever.

I was flicking between it and other things for a while, but it seemed a bit boring and I couldn't have cared less about the two teams, so I stopped. Wish I hadn't now, sounds crazy!

Yeah...not just the quantity of cards, but the crappy quality of some of them. But I guess if you have 20 cards in one game it is a sign the ref lost control. Still, it was an exciting game. Good luck to Portugal in next round, though.

In the last fifteen minutes, if you even looked at the ref wrong you were going to get booked. Granted, the game got really dirty with numerous hard fouls on purpose, shoving matches, and a few players thrown to the ground for the hell of it. At the very least, it was fun to watch. I loved the shot at the end of all of the players who got red carded huddled in the box with no room left, and instead of fighting, they're making fun of the ref.

Yeah, that was Deco and Van Bronckhorst, who play together for Barcelona. No doubt they were sharing their misery.

it was I nice match, we (holland) had the best chances in the second half and we deserved to win or to play even.

The ref in the game Australia-Croatie also was really funny, 3 yellow card to the same person