ARSE World Cup Thread!

Scuderia_Alan · Post by **Scuderia_Alan** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:44 pm

fourthof5 wrote:Zidane: "Ordinanza de tirare il costume!" (Stop pulling my shirt)
Materazzi: "Taciti, enculo, hai solamente cio che merite." (Shut up, ..., you're only getting what you're deserving)
Zidane: "Si e cio." (Yeah sure)
Materazzi: "Meritate tutti cio, voi gli enculato di musulmani, sporchi terroristici"! (All of you deserve it, fu**ing muslims, dirty terrorists)

And suddenly all the different interpretations come out.

The BBC was saying today that according to their lip-reader Materazzi called Zidane a liar and that he wished death on all his family, he finally told Zidane to go f**k himself.

Montey · Post by **Montey** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:25 pm

Scuderia_Alan wrote:
fourthof5 wrote:Zidane: "Ordinanza de tirare il costume!" (Stop pulling my shirt)
Materazzi: "Taciti, enculo, hai solamente cio che merite." (Shut up, ..., you're only getting what you're deserving)
Zidane: "Si e cio." (Yeah sure)
Materazzi: "Meritate tutti cio, voi gli enculato di musulmani, sporchi terroristici"! (All of you deserve it, fu**ing muslims, dirty terrorists)
And suddenly all the different interpretations come out.

The BBC was saying today that according to their lip-reader Materazzi called Zidane a liar and that he wished death on all his family, he finally told Zidane to go f**k himself.

How would they know? Surely they couldn't see him talking, because he still had his pants on!

Post by **norbs** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:09 pm

Montey wrote: How would they know? Surely they couldn't see him talking, because he still had his pants on!

Badabing!

Montey · Post by **Montey** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:46 pm

http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcfor ... 622.0.html

Nice collection of Zidane GIF animations

Wonko · Post by **Wonko** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:11 am

Firstly, ITALIA, ITALIA, ITALIA!!!!!

Secondly, Australia is a great sporting nation but very, very bad losers.

Thirdly, if a professional sportsman gets that upset because someone calls him
'names' then he deserves no respect........he'd be in tears if he got within 10 feet
of an Aussie cricket match.......

Fourthly, a big

to FIFA for giving him Player of the Tournament! After shoving the 'FIFA Fair Play' motto down our throats for a month!

Bacchulum · Post by **Bacchulum** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:19 am

1st; well done
2nd; We weren't the only ones perplexed by some decisions
3rd; I guess AFL player's would "be in tears if [they] got within 10 feet of an Aussie cricket match", as they have racial vilification tribunal's who vindicate excessive reaction to racial 'sledging'
4th; Player of the Tournament is voted for by the press gallery, out of FIFA's hands, and most vote's were placed before the final.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:21 am

I am still trying to understand the world ranking system. There is no way the US was ever 5th best in the world. THAT is just not possible at the moment. I could think of at least 10 teams that would be better than the US on a bad day.

Italy
England
Brazil
Argentina
Spain
Germany
Holland
France
Check Republic
Ukrain

Vilante · Post by **Vilante** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:33 am

I don't think we are bad losers, the whole nation was buzzing with our involvement in the cup so naturally that buzz turned into a groan when things took a wrong turn.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:55 am

Australians arn't bad losers. They gernerally just refused to belive that others might be better. If they lose its because they didn't play well enough, not becuase the other team was better.

Vilante · Post by **Vilante** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:59 am

And the English just break things

Sterling · Post by **Sterling** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:01 pm

fourthof5 wrote:If they lose its because they didn't play well enough, not becuase the other team was better.

True

but we also hate be screwed over by poor ref decisions and even poorer sportmanship..........unless of course diving is considered 'all part of the game'

BigPete33 · Post by **BigPete33** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:10 pm

We can accept losing...it's HOW we lost that we're all furious about. The whole world (except perhaps Italy) knew it was bullshit.

fp · Post by fp » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:08 pm

Wonko wrote:Secondly, Australia is a great sporting nation but very, very bad losers.

It's not the fact that Australia lost, it's how they lost that annoyed everybody.
Had Italy scored legitimatley in normal or extra time to win the game, or won it in a penalty shootout, no-one would have had a problem with the result.

Fourthly, a big to FIFA for giving him Player of the Tournament!

Alas, the recipiant of the award had already been decided by the time the incident occured. :-\

fourthof5 wrote:I am still trying to understand the world ranking system. There is no way the US was ever 5th best in the world. THAT is just not possible at the moment. I could think of at least 10 teams that would be better than the US on a bad day.

The FIFA World Ranking system has had a major shakeup since the World Cup, new ranking were releades a day or two ago.

http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/ ... 06,00.html

As you can see, USA has now plummeted to 16th in the World Ranking.
Some big movers in the due to the system shakeup...

Australia is now the highest ranked team in Asia, after jumping up 9 spots to 33rd, while the other qualifying teams from Asia all took a serios dive - Iran -24, S. Korea -27, Japan -31 and Saudia Arabia dropped an unbelieveable 47 positions to be 81st in the world!

The biggest surprise has to be Guinea - despite not qualifying for the World Cup, they've somehow managed to move up 27 positions in the World Ranking, to position 24, leapfrogging ahead of several WC qualifying nations, including Round of 16 participants Ghana and Ecuador.
:wtf:

nutty · Post by **nutty** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:21 pm

The rankings are alittle weird,

are in front of us, now we have to be better then them if we beat them in a wc qualifier.

I perfer these ones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_football_rating

Scuderia_Alan · Post by **Scuderia_Alan** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:28 pm

There also appears to be a new system to assign points in the ranking system. The bonus of the new one is that it pretty much explains the whole system this time around versus the old system which practically no-one understood and had some unexplained variables.

http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/ ... ,3,00.html
http://www.fifa.com/documents/tournamen ... sion_E.pdf

Perhaps the new rankings look slightly wierd as they make the transition and some countries are suddenly decoupled from what the old system would rank them as.

That ELO looks interesting but it seems the new FIFA system has incorporated the basic principles of it.

BigPete33 · Post by **BigPete33** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:09 pm

AHAHAH How good is this?

http://www.wee-goal.com/

Wish my local had these

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:48 pm

Bacchulum · Post by **Bacchulum** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:53 am

What happens when you need a throw in??

nutty · Post by **nutty** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:10 am

The fallout from the Italian Seria A has hit

http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1687344.htm
Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina dropped to Seria B.

Insane to say the least, Its going to hammer all three of these clubs, especally Juve, who will loose a large number of its star players who will be using relagation clauses in contacts, or even just wanting out and not play in a lower division.
Saying that, they deserve it

Bacchulum · Post by **Bacchulum** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:13 am

nutty wrote:The fallout from the Italian Seria A has hit

http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1687344.htm
Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina dropped to Seria B.

Insane to say the least, Its going to hammer all three of these clubs, especally Juve, who will loose a large number of its star players who will be using relagation clauses in contacts, or even just wanting out and not play in a lower division.
Saying that, they deserve it

I'd say they were lucky, there was serious talk of relegation to Seria C!!!!!!

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:25 am

Juventus... ...relegated to the Italian second division. Juventus was also deducted 30 points from the club's total for next season and stripped of its past two league titles.

Ouch.

AC Milan were handed a Serie A reprieve. AC Milan will stay in Serie A but will lose 15 points and will be kicked out of the Champions League.

Obviously paid more money to the judges

nutty · Post by **nutty** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:33 am

Oh I miss read that, to take 30 points from next season is big too.

Thats 10 wins, which means that they will be unlikely to finish top 3 and go back up, two years in b will be fark them hard

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:39 am

Well look what happened to Carlton due to not getting new players / having players leave, as part of there punishment for breaching player caps. To be honoust I dont know if Carlton will ever really recover, and the Juventus punishment was far far worse.

Montey · Post by **Montey** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:13 am

Am very pleased with this outcome.

Now maybe Newcastle United have some chance in hell of getting some decent players on the cheap. We're desperate!!!!

BigPete33 · Post by **BigPete33** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:44 am

Montey wrote:Am very pleased with this outcome.

Now maybe Newcastle United have some chance in hell of getting some decent players on the cheap. We're desperate!!!!

You blokes are just plain unlucky, any1 you do manage to get that's half decent gets injured.

I *almost* feel sorry for them

Does/did Cannavaro play for Juve? He's one you should splash the cash for no doubt.