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:lol: I just knew that was coming from you. How's Finland doing?

Who's the best manager in the World Cup do you guys think? For me it's handsdown a battle between Scolari and Del Bosque. Two guys who knows the game very well and who have been successful on the international stage. Scolari has a World Cup, a Confederations Cup, a runner-up in the Euro 2004 and 4th place in the World Cup 2006 with Portugal. Along with two Copa Libertadores, one Brazilian league and three Copa do Brasil. You look at that and it's fantastic achievement considering it's all knockout stages style wins. Brazilian league used to have knockout stages. He's not a tactical master, he's more a motivator and his players play at 110% for him every time. That's for me big part of the reason why he failed at Chelsea. Del Bosque has one World Cup, one Euros, two Champions League and five La Ligas. Damn impressive, but at the same time unlike Scolari he took over teams who were the best in the world basically. I really like him as a manager and he's very tactically clever. Nice, humle and calm manager who's character translates into the way his team plays in my opinion. Obviously other managers in the World Cup with nice resumes such as my biggest hatred van Gaal, Löw, Deschamps, Prandelli even Hodgson and Sabella are doing ok jobs with their national teams. I also like what Wilmots is doing with all the youngsters in Belgium as well as one of the best of all time Ottmar Hitzfeld at Switzerland. Who do you guys think means the most for their national team? Can van Gaal gets Holland far? Can Löw and Sabella respond to the expectations as two of the four favourites? Does Deschamps with his past World Cup winner experience as a player help France assemble and come together when it really matters? How will Hitzfeld do at Switzerland with them having possibly a easy group and a win there probably an easy route to a quarterfinals against possibly Germany?

Yo he ain't dead.

Definitely. Toure, Ramsey and Fernandinho have been the better CMs this season but Cabaye is for me top 5 without a shadow of a doubt.

Agree here. When it comes to CBs I find it hard to decide, I mean the big teams have conceded their fair share of goals this season and don't think any CB has stood out the way they had in previous years. Kompany has been excellent for many games but somehow he's not good enough to cover for his weaker CB partner (whoever that ends up being) and he gets caught because of that. As for Bale, I agree with you. Like you said, Real plays a more direct style which suits Bale and Cristiano so fantastically while Neymar played his best football this far when Messi was out and more went through him. I see what Neymar is able to do with a football for the national team and it's stuff I don't think Bale can come close to doing, but at the moment Bale is just much better adapted to Real and it's system and is playing better football. I do think Neymar made the right choice to go to Barcelona but I think his true potential will be shown when they accept that he's a direct player and Messi gets used to it. Messi sometimes just strolls a bit just looking at Neymar and not giving him an option, might be that he's cautious due to the injury but it's a shame.

I'd have our starting XI we're 8th shit manager. As for Bale and Neymar, you might be astounded but I'd probably pick Bale if it was based on current form. I obviously think Neymar has a much higher upside, but Bale has adapted better to his team and can finish a ball from anywhere while Neymar seems frustratingly low on confidence for Barcelona.

Ghana, Japan and Mexicos were smart. Not sure if gusta are Italy's, Uruguay, Greece, US and Belgium. Rest are a no-no for me.

I'll be doing it on a farm for crying out loud. My friend owns a farm, he employs a farmer to rear animals and grow crops. It's not like I am just going to find a random lamb in the wild and kill it. I've actually helped do this with a pig once, quite some time ago when I was staying with an indigenous tribe in Costa Rica about 10 years ago. One of them where the women all have their nips out?

Doubt they'll do it on the streets to the stadiums. Think it's a different experience. Guess everyone is different.

In this instance what's the difference? Is it horrendous to slaughter a lamb in a farm together with farmers that do it on regular basis and probably sell it for you to eat it? I do not think that the people who kill animals for consumption are horrendous, I think the process of actually having to kill an animal is horrendous. That is why the farmer does it for me. I am aware that meat is made of animals, for I am not a simpleton. There is definitely a difference between killing and eating. Back "OTT", I hope that the final is Brasil vs Spain and Diego Costa scores 16 goals to take the WC back to his homeland. Ok, in that way of thinking I agree with you. I wouldn't ever slaughter the animal, I might have misunderstood Bretts and Santoon position. I just thought it looked like they condemning slaughtering an animal. As for your hope, you're a fucking dick, you had to pick 16goals didn't you?

Well, yeah. My friend has a small holding/farm so he is pretty much self sufficient in meat, fruit and vegetables. I would love to be able to live like that. Kill it, butcher it, cook it, eat it. It's good to know where you food comes from, rather than it just appearing in a packet on the shelf of a shop. So you'll be cool with just murdering this little defenceless lamb? Not reckon it might be like, a bit f***ing grim Are you a vegetarian? There's a bit of a difference between eating meat and actually killing the animal that you are going to eat yourself. OTT but what's the difference? You mean you can't be fine with killing a lamb but you can be fine with eating it? Makes no sense. Now leave that discussion to PMs ffs has nothing to do with the World Cup in Brazil. OTT means over the top. I meant OT (that's how we use it in sweden though as Off-topic) In this instance what's the difference? Is it horrendous to slaughter a lamb in a farm together with farmers that do it on regular basis and probably sell it for you to eat it?

Well, yeah. My friend has a small holding/farm so he is pretty much self sufficient in meat, fruit and vegetables. I would love to be able to live like that. Kill it, butcher it, cook it, eat it. It's good to know where you food comes from, rather than it just appearing in a packet on the shelf of a shop. So you'll be cool with just murdering this little defenceless lamb? Not reckon it might be like, a bit f***ing grim Are you a vegetarian? There's a bit of a difference between eating meat and actually killing the animal that you are going to eat yourself. OTT but what's the difference? You mean you can't be fine with killing a lamb but you can be fine with eating it? Makes no sense. Now leave that discussion to PMs ffs has nothing to do with the World Cup in Brazil.

Well, yeah. My friend has a small holding/farm so he is pretty much self sufficient in meat, fruit and vegetables. I would love to be able to live like that. Kill it, butcher it, cook it, eat it. It's good to know where you food comes from, rather than it just appearing in a packet on the shelf of a shop. So you'll be cool with just murdering this little defenceless lamb? Not reckon it might be like, a bit f***ing grim So you don't eat meats at all I'd guess?

What's the story behind this? Apparently he got sacked from Southampton because he was sleeping/slept with Jose Fontes wife/girlfriend.

Why were you drinking at a psychiatric ward? Must be better places to drink.

It's no surprise Pardew is a massive cunt. The fact he slept with his captain's wife says it all. It's a man with no integrity, no shame, no nothing. He's soulless and above all that for us fans, he's a terrible manager. I mean being a nice, humble person comes a long way and I'd respect him more if he took responsibility for his action once in his career here. He's no man, he's the definition of coward, and the sooner he's gone the better.

I'm really liking the idea of an early kickoff in the final. 4PM is kickoff and I think it's going to be excellent, start in the bright sun and end in perfect weather hopefully. Hope to be in Rio if Brazil makes it and would love a Brazil v Argentina final. Also I know it's in portuguese but it's not hard to understand how it works, http://copadomundo.uol.com.br/tabela-da-copa/calendario-de-jogos/ great link to see where the games are played and so on. Just press on 'Ver em tela cheia' and you'll get a full screen. It's pure especially the 14th. Just not sure if I like to have two days of Quarterfinals rather than them spread over 4 days. I mean no football on the 2nd, 3rd, 6th,7th and 10th and 11th of July is going to be pure boredom. Looking at the groups I can see plenty being decided before the last round. Really hope England's group is wide open and that Costa Rica can take a point off someone while Chile lives up to the hype they're building (they've been excellent against Brazil and Germany in their last friendlies and only lost by the odd goal). I think group E might end up being more open than people expect. Ecuador are the worst side of the SA teams but both them and Honduras will have the fans at the stadium on their side and will play in advantageous conditions. Honduras takes on Switzerland on the 25th of June in Manaus at 5PM when temperature could reach 33-34 with extreme humidity. (Italians were complaining about Recife at the Confed this is twice as bad). While Ecuador takes on France in front of probably at least 50 000 Brazilians supporting them at the Maracana while booing the French. Really hope France messes it up (regardless of the Toon Army representation ) Got shit lucky in the draw and both them and Argentina basically got a free pass to the Quarterfinals.

I'm camping in here over the summer, just thought i'd pop in and see how things are I was expecting pictures of nice stadiums and samba gifs, instead i had greg buzzing over the chance to slaughter a lamb

Someone get Brett out of here.

5 of Neymar's have been in competitive games. 38 of Ronaldo's have been in competitive games. Eat me. Seriously though, what Mole said. Neymar has won something at the international stage, what has CRonaldo won?

So Ronaldo breaks a record at 29 with 47 goals for Portugal. Neymar scored his 30th goal for Brazil today. At this rate he will ultrapass Ronaldo at the end of next year

:lol: You're on fire aren't you Disco.

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Is anyone surprised? One of the dirtiest national teams in the last 8-10 years without a doubt.