Posts by Peter Darlington
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The danger is the width Slovakia are most likely to play with, having the two speedy young wingers running at our guys with a couple of very proficient forwards waiting in the middle I can't see Lockhead or Bertos getting much joy on attack. 0-0 would be a great result for us but not much use in terms of progressing (see Hadyn's comments in the blog).
A moment of Smeltz brilliance on the break? It's the only way I can see us getting something, and given his record in top internationals it's certainly not something I expect. You never know though...
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Oh, how they suffered.At one point I felt sorry for them.
How many red cards now? Every game had one sent off, it seemed.As soon as it's one player down,... toast.At least yer Aussies know how to take a defeat in good heart. None of this sack the coach, kill the captain rubbish for them. Oh wait...
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Can somebody help me with something: whose feed are we getting in NZ? Is it BSkyB? It intrigues me that there's only one commentator and there are no sideline reporters, as it if was meant as a second-grade export.
Gio I think we're getting the 'official' FIFA feed. FIFA are becoming a bit like Skynet, but with less robots, if you discount the German team... :)
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Lessons of the first morning? I'd love to stick that Mexico midfield in with Uruguay's strike force. Might have seen a little bit more in the way of goal action. Dos Santos the player of the first day for me.
A classic group first round, lots of huffing and puffing but really it's all about not losing. France will be most unhappiest about this round, Uruguay will be happiest, not a bad morning for Sth Africa either although they're probably rueing what would have been a hugely emotional win for them.
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...(I support Celtic, but reserve a bothersome soft spot for the Irons as the only English club I have time for)...
Mike, you're my favourite new poster and I hope you stick around! :)
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Intrigued about Peter's comment regarding the "huge chasm of nothingness" between the end of the World Cup and the start of the Premier League. I'd have thought - presuming he's a West Ham fan as Haydn suggests - there is no such thing. Always something sensational going on at the Boleyn, in more ways than one. It's like a football club for those who like continual upheaval in their lives.
When Ron Greenwood sent the team out for the 1964 FA Cup final against Preston North End at Wembley, he simply said to them "play our beautiful football, and try to win fairly". That's all we went, beauty and trophies, not too much to ask...
As for being "bereft of all hope", won't that come much later in the season? ...
Pffft, if that was our lot we'd have some soppy gloriously defeatist anthem that we all sing at matches.
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Dudes. Dudes. What about New Order's tune for the 1990 World Cup, "World In Motion"? It's magnificient because it combines house, pop, sports-rap and football chants.
Oh man, Dan is going to hate you...
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ever one to pass up an opportunity for self-promotion, but also thinking it might be of genuine interest to fellow buffs, I offer something I wrote this week about my favourite world cup game ever.
That's lovely stuff Gio. Hope you have a few more Cup tales up your sleeve in the coming weeks?
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So instead of bringing in all the cool Faraday science and the Desmond consciousness transferal and junk they just went with the ending the had kept for all these years.
Indeed. It was like "all that stuff you thought was cool and relevant? It wasn't. We were just filling space with it."
That's pretty much my take on it too. No explanations, we're just going to kill off the bad guy and finish it, and do a " Six Feet Under final resolution at some point in the future so it's all done and dusted" style ending.
The disappointments for me were (1) that they had a chance to do some genuinely weird stuff a few seasons ago when they did the first jump forward (off the island), I would have liked to see that continue but with elements of the island starting to show up in the supposed normal world in a Philip K Dick broken reality style, but they wussed out and went for the whole "back to the island" plot instead and then it all went Gilligan on acid.
And (2) the turning of Ben and Juliet into goodies over the last 2 seasons (remember when they were bad asses who appeared to know shit the 815'ers didn't?) just spoke of the producers running out of ideas.
Meh.
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And in the spirit of World Cup ads, Andy pwns Peter Crouch;