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Donaldo, otherwise known as belly :003:

**** **** ****, was in Glasgow today and did not get my scores posted. Missed the Gemany and Argentina games.

Good display by Brazil tonight, they opened the throttle a bit and simply swept Japan aside. I will stick with them for the cup.

Don't know what all the fuss is about, we have to play them three times each, and four times for those after the split. Does it really matter much whp we play first, the only good thing I can see is it gives us a chance to get points on the board early doors. Oh, and we can now plan ahead.

2:- Australia netted 31 goals against newcomers American Samoa, setting the record of the highest-scoring match and biggest margin victory ever. This was only two days after Australia thrashed Tonga 22-0, a then international record. Also, Archie Thompson’s 13 goals in the match against American Samoa surpassed the previous record of 7.

5:- Euro 92 England 1 - 2 Sweden. Lineker was taken off - substituted in this game, his last ever England appearance with the scores still level and half an hour to play. It resulted in the classic Sun headline of "Swedes 2, Turnip 1", with managers Graham Taylors head superimposed on a turnip. 6:- The 2002 World Cup. The names of the 3 official World Cup computer-generated mascots have been revealed after a vote by 987,411 people from all over the world. The cheeky characters live in Atmozone and it is their mission to create the special atmosphere for World Cup 2002 and capture lots of young children's pocket money. "Ato" was chosen as the name of the glowing orange coach character with a cyber goatee, while the two blue and purple strikers will be known as "Nik" and "Kaz." "Ato" was chosen by a narrow margin over "Amo" & "Poz", whereas "Nik" and "Kaz" won comfortably over the other possible names in their category. Fans voted in Macdonald's stores in Korea & Japan and over the Net at the official FIFA World Cup site or at the Macdonald's homepages in the two host nations. The vote took place over one month from 1st February. Franc, Won and Yen were not options 7:- Scotland and Manchester United legend Denis Law, upon hearing the news of England's extra time triumph over West Germany, famously declared, "That's the blackest day of my life". He only stated what the rest of us thought.

fishy, to expand on number three:- The 1950 Football World Cup was the only World Cup ever held which was not decided by a knockout final (although the last match of the tournament did end up determining the overall winner, and this match, also known as Maracanazo, is usually referred to as "the 1950 World Cup Final" although it differed from a final in one significant respect : one team went into the game needing only a draw to win the Cup). It was also the first year that the cup itself would be referred to as the Jules Rimet Cup, to mark the 25th anniversary of Rimet's presidency of FIFA. It was won by Uruguay, who had won the inaugural competition in 1930 The British nations were able to take part, having rejoined FIFA four years earlier, after 17 years of self-imposed exile. It was decided to use the 1949-1950 British Home Championship as a qualifying group, with whoever finished first and second qualifying. England finished first and Scotland second, but the Scots refused to go as they were not British Champions. Turkey withdrew as well. A combined Great Britain team had recently beaten the rest of Europe 6-1 in an exhibition match and England went into the competition as one of the favourites. However, it was not to be, as they went crashing out in a shocking 1-0 defeat by the USA (when the score appeared in English newspapers, many thought it was a typo; which combined with their 1-0 defeat by Spain led to Spain continuing to the Final Pool. The Final Pool took the form of a final group stage, involving all teams who won their group stage: Brazil, Spain, Sweden, and Uruguay. The overall winner of the World Cup for 1950 would be the team that managed to finish on top of this group. Brazil outscored everyone with a 7-1 thrashing of Sweden and 6-1 rout of Spain. Before the decisive match, Brazil were sitting on top of the Final Pool and had one game left to play – Uruguay who lay just behind in second and only a point behind. On July 16th before a huge home crowd officially counted at 174,000 but unofficially estimated at over 200,000 in the Estádio Maracanã, the host nation had only to draw against Uruguay and the trophy would be theirs. After such crushing victories over Spain and Sweden, it looked certain they would take the title, especially as the home nation went ahead in the second minute of the second half, thanks to a goal from Friaça. However, Uruguay equalised and then with just over 11 minutes left to play, went ahead 2-1 and Uruguay were crowned World Cup Winners for a second time. The stunning defeat of Brazil is referred to as the "Maracanazo". The average attendance of nearly 61,000 per game—aided greatly by eight matches (including five featuring hosts Brazil) held in the newly-built Maracanã—set a record that would not be broken until 1994, when the World Cup was held in the United States for the first time. Not counting the Maracanã matches, the average attendance was a still-impressive 37,500. However, the only venues that saw crowds comparable to (or greater than) those in recent World Cups were the Maracanã and São Paulo. Other venues saw considerably smaller crowds.

In reverse order................ 8:- Lev Yashin He played his entire career for Dynamo Moscow sports club, from 1949 to 1971, winning the football championship of the USSR five times and the USSR Cup three times. He also won a USSR ice hockey championship (1953) as a goalkeeper for his club after three disastrous tryout attempts to get his place in the starting line-up of the main football team. Lev Yashin is the only goalkeeper ever to win the European Footballer of the Year Award (1963). He is also believed to have blocked around 150 penalty kicks during his career; far more than any other goalkeeper in history. When asked for his secret, he would say the trick was "to have a smoke to calm your nerves, then toss back a strong drink to tone your muscles." 9:- The Battle of Berne is the informal name given to the football match between Brazil and Hungary during the World Cup finals on June 27, 1954 in Berne. Without their talisman Ferenc Puskás, out injured, Hungary was leading Brazil 2-0 when Brazil finally scored their first with a penalty. From then on the match grew progressively violent. Brazil's Nilton Santos and Hungary captain József Bozsik were sent off in the 73rd minute during a bad-tempered and physical second-half which also saw Brazil's Humberto sent off in the 79th minute. Hungary won the match 4-2. Post-match brawls continued when Puskás allegedly attacked a Brazilian player with a bottle (other reports blame a spectator) and the Brazilian squad retaliated by fighting with the Hungarians in the opposition's dressing room. Hungary's coach Gustav Sebes ended up with four stitches after being struck by a broken bottle. The English referee Arthur Ellis was dismayed at FIFA's decision not to discipline players sent off during the match 10:- On July 2, 1994, Escobar was gunned down outside a bar in a Medellín suburb. According to Escobar's girlfriend, the killer shouted "¡Gol!" (mimicking play-by-play men in the region for their notorious calls after a goal is scored) for each of the 12 bullets fired. Escobar had scored an own goal in a match against the United States on 22 June. Stretching to cut out a John Harkes cross, he deflected the ball into his own net in the second match of Group A. The USA won the game 2–1, and as a result, Colombia was unexpectedly dismissed from the tournament in the first round. The murder was widely believed to be a punishment for the own goal. It is not clear whether the murderer acted on his own initiative, or whether he was sent out by one of the gambling syndicates who had bet large amounts of money on Colombia to win the Cup, or at least qualify for the second round. The BBC issued an apology the following day after its pundit Alan Hansen commented on another match that "the Argentine defender wants shooting for a mistake like that."

Looked like a sore one as soon as he slumped to the ground. Out for 5 months maybe....ouch.

aye, it's ok if you like that sort of goal see world cup goals thread, you can watch all the goals again

Hope your French is good, if not just click on the scores, then click on the footballs beside the scorers, hey presto, all the World Cup goals you could ever want. http://www.11football.com/coupedumonde2006/ I checked with caleyD and he has okayed it as long as no complaints come in, then it will have to be removed :005:

Some predictor busters over the last weekend :010: TEAMS HT----FT----TOTAL POINTS WON Czech Rep - Ghana 0:1--- 0:2 55 France - South Korea 1:0 ---1:1 365 Japan - Croatia 0:0---0:0 410 Italy - USA 1:1--- 1:1 345

Text has Bennet recommending to the board that they up the players wages. Maybe that will be sufficient to stop him from leaving. Anyway, all of our players are still under contract so United would have to fork out if they want any of our guys, and they don't seem too keen on doing that.

Guzz, can you confirm if I paid up front, or was I dreaming this. If not count me in.

Anyone for Valdes of Paraguay, seems a decent player, we will have to cast our votes sometime for the team of the World Cup, anyone make up a schedule for that??

However, well done England for thoroughly spanking Trinidad & Tobago, (two places at once), and firmly showing them who's boss. :003:that's put them in their place.

Hey stocky, you hit the nail right on the head there, father and son combo, did you spot them. old baggie up northish. However, you are most welcome to come up and try and out drink us. Outsing us should not be a problem for you guys as we are all well behaved at home. I'm sure we can all laugh together. It's English nonsense from yompa, but we know better. Look out for the winderuppers.

No, I heard it too :003:

Stop yer fekkin guessing and kick this into rumours :006:

Hey, it's only a testimonial, and the County game is a practice for the season ahead. Don't read too much into these games, it's all about preparation for the real deal. Yes it would be pleasant to win these games, but the world won't end if we lose both......or will it.

Is it just me or are these youngsters in the World Cup hitting the ball harder than ever. So far most of the goals have come from longish range and have been pretty spectacular. Just watching some games and think to yourself, would Russell Duncan or Denzil or Bazza or Rossco have hit the ball so hard. I don't know what these guys over there are eating, but it certainly does not seem to be doing them any harm..................more power to the legs.

I don't care. I don't care if England win. I don't care if England lose. I don't care if Motty commentates. I don't care if Motty doesn't commentate. I don't care if ITN Junior commentates. I don't care what the English media say. I don't care what Bonzo says. I don't care who Bonzo supports. I don't care who any ICT supporter supports during the world cup. I don't care who thinks I support another team. I just dont care. ICT are bigger than the Worl Cup, it is only a filler during the close season and merely a distraction before the start of the SPL, the real reason we are on this planet. Get off the fence I hear you all shout,...................ok, I believe that Brazil will win, but watch out for Australia as an outside bet, and also Portugal. However, I really don't care.

:010:crikey, didn't know Martin Bavidge is Croatian..............anyway, he is having a decent game so far :003:

OK THEN..........I predict a no score draw Scotty.

Best news of the close season yet. This is also on Teletext just now. I thought Dods was immense last year and was my vote for ICT player of the year. You get what you see with Dodsy, no nonsense no frills defending, but consistently fabulous throughout the whole season, and a couple of goals thrown in for good measure. He has taken on the gap left by Bobby and continued to give the team a platform from which to build from. He is some Machine, and he does run on diesel. Last year he was turbo charged, more of the same please. Sign on the dotted line please Mr Dods....................................................... :003: