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http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1102106-football-thread-world-cup-special-ix/


Today is the culmination of it all. Spain vs Netherlands in the final. Cue Spain passing the ball slowly around the Dutch for 80 minutes doing nothing much, before a Villa shot bounces off the crossbar, both posts, then in off the 'keeper's :spotted owl:

[Russell Davies]

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1102106-football-thread-world-cup-special-ix/


Today is the culmination of it all. Spain vs Netherlands in the final. Cue Spain passing the ball slowly around the Dutch for 80 minutes doing nothing much, before a Villa shot bounces off the crossbar, both posts, then in off the 'keeper's :spotted owl:

Ha, I think you've called it about right.

[u gone see]

Cue Spain passing the ball slowly around the Dutch for 80 minutes doing nothing much, before a Villa shot bounces off the crossbar, both posts, then in off the 'keeper's :spotted owl:

Grrr...

Ha, I think you've called it about right.

more Grrr...

so that's where the loyalties lay, huh :stare:

'kay.. Robben in the third minute, making the Spanish squirm from the get go..
vd Vaart in the ninth minute, off the post from a set up from Schneider. Demoralizes them even further.
B)

All the football wives from the Dutch team in skimpy dresses to further confuse the Spanish players.. :hubbahubba:

so, me says 2 - 0, for us. :celebration:






Now I've seriously jinxed the game :unsure:

btw, how did we go from IX to XI? Did I miss a memo again.. :huh:

[Thomas LEON]

'kay.. Robben in the third minute, making the Spanish squirm from the get go..
vd Vaart in the ninth minute, off the post from a set up from Schneider. Demoralizes them even further.

You're assuming the Dutch will even see the ball before the half hour mark. Their "gameplan", if Arjen Robben is to be believed, is "we're going to do what the Germans tried to do, but it's going to work for us!"

btw, how did we go from IX to XI? Did I miss a memo again.. :huh:

We had two thread IXs.

[Neliel Kudoh]

Well 3rd place is not so bad.Come on Holland.

[Ross Thomas]

:ahhh:

Less than 8 hours to go before we write history!

Not to underestimate Spain, but we all saw against Switzerland, Paraguay and Chile how well they can play the ball around and score at the same time when the opponent isn't Poland. I'm not too worried.

EDIT: Also, Robben said we shouldn't do what the Germans did, which is to give away too much space.

[Miss K]

:ahhh:

Less than 8 hours to go before we write history!

Not to underestimate Spain, but we all saw against Switzerland, Paraguay and Chile how well they can play the ball around and score at the same time when the opponent isn't Poland. I'm not too worried.

It's collective psychology, we can take the Spanish team because we've done so before in games that mattered. -doesn't matter who played then or when it actually happened, because it's just a collective thought, unrational, but still there non the less.

'We can take them'





But against the Germans it's a mass collective case of
OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!.. :ahhh:

Of course, in complacency lies a big threat as well.

Still, thank :bowdown: it's not against the Germans.
edited for spelling, of course...

[Jade MacSpade]

The Dutch to win with Sneijder taking the golden boot. I'm gonna say 2-1 Holland.

[Karen anwyn Green]

The Dutch to win with Sneijder taking the golden boot. I'm gonna say 2-1 Holland.

I said this the other way round Spain winning 2-1 with David Villa getting the golden boot.

[El Khatiri]

Spain 6-0 Torres gets the golden boot

[Dean]

Holland walkover with Torres deciding to go ladies shopping instead.

[Solina971]

Spain 6-0 Torres gets the golden boot

Wouldn't argue with that as I did back Torres to win the golden boot just before the tournament started.

[Haley Merkley]

Tennis game all the way up to the 90th minute when some relatively unknown Spaniard puts the ball in the Dutch net with a lucky toe-kick, leaving the Golden Boot either to a vote or straight into a saw's teeth.

[lucy chadwick]

Holland needs to play aggressive and physical, not the waiting game like those poor, misguided Germans. Van Bommel and De Jong need to bully around those spanish dwarfs. Btw, I don't care about the Dutch I just have some money on them winning.

[Andres Lechuga]

Now I, the great D.Foxy, will make a prediction.


IF THE SPANISH SIDE PLAYS TORRES AS A STARTER THEY ARE DOOMED. TORRES IS THE GREATEST BAD LUCK JINX THE SPANISH HAVE EVER HAD.

[Nikki Morse]

Now I, the great D.Foxy, will make a prediction.


IF THE SPANISH SIDE PLAYS TORRES AS A STARTER THEY ARE DOOMED. TORRES IS THE GREATEST BAD LUCK JINX THE SPANISH HAVE EVER HAD.

I doubt they'll start with him though.

I'll be heading to town in just under two hours, it's going to be a great night!

[Céline Rémy]

I don't think Robben should play. He's done nothing (besides scoring one, maybe two (lost count of who scored how many) goals) besides, what we call in Holland, "pingelen". This basically is not passing the ball on critical times and trying to score a goal.

For the rest, Holland all the way!

[Tha King o Geekz]

There has never been a country that became the world champaion that has lost one of the matches in the final rounds. Spain lost to Switzerland, so we win Also the home team has always been the winner too AFAIK

So yeah... who said the odds were against us again? The key to beating spain is to score first, then furstrate the eff out of em

EDIT:

Here's why NED will win:

- Psychic Parakeet supports us
- Drugged Russian supports us
- In the history of the WC there never has been a champion that has lost a match in the final round (Spain lost to Switzerland, we haven't lost any match since 2008)
- All world championships were won by the home team AFAIK (We're the home team)
- Spain can't score for diddley (miss miss miss miss miss miss, after the 20th miss it's already 1-0 for the Netherlands thanks to a quick counterattack by Arjen Robben )
- We have long range shooters which Spain doesn't really have (Sneijder, van Bronckhorst - yeh him too, not the first time he scored a goal like the one in the Uruguay match, Kuyt, van Persie etc.)
- Octopus Paul is delusional, all he does is grab a mussel from a box (drunken russian said so...)

Sounds reasonable I suppose...

[Eoh]

The team that playes the best football never wins, so it is going to be 3-1!!

[Pants]

I bet 8 dollars on Holland that I don't have anymore, so they better win. 2-0 with Sneijder wrecking [censored].

Also, if Sneijder doesn't score enough goals to get the boot, is it given to the 4 people tied? How does that work?

[Laura-Lee Gerwing]

Still, thank :bowdown: it's not against the Germans.

I think it would be so much more interesting and exciting if it were Germany vs Netherlands, there would be riots.

[Siobhan Thompson]

The key to beating spain is to score first, then furstrate the eff out of em

Which I sincerely hope doesn't happen as it will frustrate "it" out of me and start taking it out on all those who deliberately avoid the autocensor in any little way. :stare:

Seriously - I hope it is a great match and I don't mind who wins as long as it gives both sides of the fans good entertainment. .. and as long as Spain wins.

[Sammygirl500]

The team that playes the best football never wins, so it is going to be 3-1!!

Nope watch this space 2-1 to Spain.

But if am wrong then I still hope its a great match.

[Zosia Cetnar]

Also, if Sneijder doesn't score enough goals to get the boot, is it given to the 4 people tied? How does that work?

Not sure but I think it goes on assists but I do think bookies have to pay out on them all.

[Nicole M]

Not sure but I think it goes on assists but I do think bookies have to pay out on them all.

Yes, with a tie in goals, assists will count. At this moment Muller from the germans has the most assists of the 4