Shak

Actually, watching the disallowed goal again I can see why it was ruled out.

Just seen the Klose sending off now. Pathetic from the referee. Worst bit of refereeing of the day, IMO.

And Slovenia go home as long as you beat Algeria. You didn't see the first half, man. Saw the second, though. Algeria are shit. If you play well you'll beat them no bother. If you shit the bed, you deserve to go home. Sack up and stop being such a pansy! Because you're never down when your team gets fucked! Let me be, god damnit! No. You have it right in your hands. Beat a really shit team and you're almost assured a spot in the knockouts. You should be elated with that comeback tbh, even if you should have won it in the end. Come on man!

Assuming England wins the next two. Stop being wrong damnit!!

And Slovenia go home as long as you beat Algeria. You didn't see the first half, man. Saw the second, though. Algeria are shit. If you play well you'll beat them no bother. If you shit the bed, you deserve to go home. Sack up and stop being such a pansy!

And Slovenia go home as long as you beat Algeria.

Just beat Algeria and you're through man.

Not looking good for Slovenia now, they probably need to beat England now and I can't really see it.

You guys are sorted if it finishes like this Mike. All you have to do is beat Algeria by 2 and you qualify. Nothing wrong with that goal btw.

Isn't a draw the worst result for England? Why? We want to win the group, so us winning and the other teams not winning will help that. 1st and 2nd are much of a muchness with the way the German group is shaping up I'd say. A draw here really puts Slovenia's backs to the wall for the final game with England, they'll know it's win or bust.

http://weathersreport.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/wide-right.jpeg No Good!!

Isn't a draw the worst result for England?

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Good.field.goal.jpg It's Good!!

The US need to score like, lose and they're pretty much out.

Great ball in there. Just arrived in 30 seconds before the US scored, they look to be the better team by miles from what I've seen. The fuck happened that first half?

That keeper has no testicles.

Cracker!!

We've had the "I'm class me, like!!" threads, now it's time to recall those moments in your footballing career where you completely let yourself down to the point you just wanted a nice bath and a shiny new toaster so you could end it all. Two stick out for me. First was just in a kick about on our local green. We were playing against another estate, I'd have been maybe 14 or so. Some of the older kids in the estate were messing about behind one of the goals, kept heckling us and even interfering with the game. I was getting fairly annoyed because the game was close. Anyway, beat a couple of defenders and got in one on one with the keeper. He came rushing out and I "sent him to fucking Alaska" (© johnnypd) with a shimmy and had a wide open goal to just roll it into. One of the older lads was standing just behind the goal, shouting "Miss!! Miss!!" at me so I decide I'm gonna smack the ball at him while scoring. So from maybe ten yards out I send the ball an absolute mile over the bar and into the neighboring field... absolute humiliation. Another was when I was playing keeper for the school team. We came up against a team that was clearly miles better than us in the cup. They were all over us pretty much from start to finish, one of our lads scored a rocket from 25 yards in what was our only 'chance' of the match. They got an equaliser just before half time but the second half they just couldn't score. I played the game of my life, made half a dozen brilliant saves and claimed cross after cross without making a single mistake. Then with about two minutes left we have a goal kick. I run up to take it and just as I'm about to strike it I lose my footing and scuff it forward about 25 yards. Their striker runs on to it, I'm back to my feet and rush out to face him. He shoots and I save it, but the rebound falls straight to another one of their lads and he rolls it home. I was lying on the ground from the original save and I just remember how slowly it seemed to roll across the line and into the net. Actually started headbutting the ground, was that gutted.

Martins.

England -1 for me, might even go -2. Algeria are a really, really bad team. Yeah it probably will be more than a 1 goal win but it's already a 9/1 accumulator without any handicap and I just know they'd find a way to fuck me and win 1-0 if the other games go to plan.

Right, decided to go with Draw USA England Think I might just give up when this inevitably goes tits up on me.

When I was about 11 or 12, we had a game in primary school between the two different classes, ended up going to penalties. We had no specialist goalkeeper, everyone just took turns having a stint in goals. I had been in goals during the game when the other team had gotten and scored a penalty, I remember I came quite close to saving it though. The teacher/ref picked a keeper for each team, obviously he'd seen something in my attempt on the penalty during the game and picked me. Saved all three of their penalties, we scored all three of ours. Spent a couple of years playing keeper for my local side, and in the process developed a nickname that people still call me by to this day.

For a competitive club game, my favourite goal was playing Under-14. We had a big club so it was decided to split us into two groups and enter two teams in the league rather than one. Towards the end of the season we were first in the league and they were second, two points behind. Fair to say that there was a fair bit of bad blood between the two sides at this point. Anyway, the week before the two teams faced each other we both had a home game on the same day. Theirs started about an hour before ours so while they were waiting to be picked up by their mammies after their win they were watching us finish off our game. We were 2-1 up with ten minutes to go. It had been raining on and off all day but it just started pelting down, one of those proper monsoon type of showers that only lasts a minute or two. Our central midfielder plays a ball forward, one of their guys tries to clear it and slices the christ out of it and puts it in behind their defence and I'm onto it. Have a decent headstart but the defender is quicker than me. I'm running as fast as I can as the rain fucking pelts against me, you can barely see anything. It's about 25 yards out and a decent bit left of centre as I run onto it. If I take a touch the defender probably gets me so I decide to open myself up and try and bend it first time into the far corner. Ball skids off the surface and goes in off the far post. I then proceed to make myself look like a complete tit by running over to the corner where the other team are watching us and slide about ten yards on my knees and stop just short of the corner flag. We beat them 5-2 the next week and I scored a hat-trick.

aye but was it a proper game or in the back garden ? were you 6 or 16 ? lets have a bit of setting please chaps. I'd have been 14 or 15 maybe, older brother 17 or 18. Grew up in an area with a lot of kids, so for a few summers in a row there'd be maybe 50 of us divided up into teams and we'd have a big league of 7-a-side games and we'd play ever day. Was quality, would love to do it again this summer!