Shan wrote:Well the football World Cup is only a couple of days away now. Anybody got much interest? For those that do who do you think will win and who do hope will win?
As its known on another rugby forum - Wendyball. A little interest but won't be glued to it.
Who will win? The odds:
Spain 9/2 go on the lads
Brazil 13/2 look like they have a decent route to the final
Argentina 8/1 top class - the winners
England 10/1 no chance whatsoever - 10/1 is just the bookies guarding against a freak set of results
Holland 14/1 always decent if they can stop fighting with eachother
Germany 16/1 every pundit will have "you never write off the Germans" amongst their armoury of aging cliches.
Italy 20/1 good odds for current champions
France 25/1 Am I alone in hoping they are humiliated?
Portugal 50/1 Surely a better bet than France?
Ivory Coast 66/1 Plenty of talent not enough depth
Serbia 80/1 Veni Vidi Vechi - well not quite but they have Vidic and not a lot else
Mexico 80/1 May as well dance on their hats
but interesting to see UTD's new striker
USA 80/1 A nation expects - but yet again very few will know how they got on
Chile 100/1 Freezing cold outsiders
Cameroon 100/1 Roggah Millah playing again ?
Paraguay 100/1 One of two landlocked countries in S America............err thats about all really.
Uruguay 125/1 Apparently these have broken with their traditonal role as cloggers and are very attractive
Ghana 150/1 Will celebrate 50 years as a republic during the tournament - try and enjoy that guys.
Nigeria 150/1 Will be too busy with emailing news of lottery wins or offers to export funds thru; YOUR bank acct
South Africa 150/1 Hope they aren't humiliated as hosts.
Denmark 150/1 We'll never forget you John Jensen
Australia 200/1 Stick to the leather on willow mates.
Greece 250/1 Remember 2004 - no chance.
Switzerland 250/1 Stick to being financial whores collecting all that crimainal money! Oh and cuckoo clocks &Toblerone
South Korea 300/1 Not this time lads
Slovakia 400/1 Allied (forcefully) to Nazi Germany at the outset of WW2 later turned when writing hit the wall
Japan 400/1 Too small - sorry
Slovenia 500/1 Anyone know an interesting(or even a boring) fact about them? Franc is most popular boys name!
Algeria 1000/1 1982 victims of disgraceful fixed match W.Germany 1-0 Austria where both of these went through
Honduras 2000/1 One of the parties to the Football War with El Salvador during 1970 qualifiers
North Korea 2000/1 Clear winners - as reported by Kim Jong Il who has already personally scored the winning goal
New Zealand 2000/1 Given the beating you are about to inflict on Saturday I hope you get stuffed
Given my miniscule hovel in Spain I will be hoping my (second) homeland will do the business just to prove that the European win wasn't a flash in the pan and that they can actually form a national team from wildy different cultures/regional differences/ancient emnities.
Of course the highlight of the tournament will be the inevitable wailing and nashing of teeth when England get dumped out. As one who has endured 44 years of hurt listening to them about 1966 it is my due reward to revel in their discomfort when they fall to some undeserving rabble to whom they taught the game
England were left between a rock and 2 hard cases when Rio made his exit (it turns out he is the first player ever to collide with Emile Hesley and be the one to go down). Which of two lowlife scumbags to appoint as captain, Gerard or Terry? Could only be Gerard as he had recently dropped the bomb on Terry and would have looked a complete Roman Poite by reappointing him. So the man who should have been jailed as a bar room bully will instead carry HM Queen's hopes on his shoulders. Beside him will be a variety of self-important lowlife of varying degrees - e.g Ashley Cole. How early they leave the tournament depends on whether Rooney 1) stays fit 2) finds form. Very ordinary team.
All a bit wordy? Well I did say I'm not overly interested.
