Kaizero

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People on here are saying that NK play nothing but defense. Could see it happening. I've not dared go any larger than Brazil -1 on my accum.

It's true.

I think North Korea - Brazil is fascinating, I'm looking forward to seeing the North Koreans out of curiosity. I want to see the NK Fans. No actual Norks there as expected I don't think.. There is a fanclub set up made up of English and Chinese fans I think, who have travelled to given them some kind of support. Ah, that's disappointing. Be class if they had blatant actors in the crowd in North Korean jerseys, like those rent-a-crowds at half time in the Superbowl. Anyone know if the North Koreans are actually going to get to watch the match at all? Last I read was that they were only going to get highlights to ensure that the nation isn't subjected to the horror if they turn out to be shit. I thought they were actually sending over a rent-a-crowd? I heard they were doing auditions of Chinese citizens to only send the most attractive ones or something.

They're also dangerous for your hearing, 130db, which is the equal of being 100 feet away from a jetplane. A chainsaw is only 117db.

Think they've changed it recently....Or summink. Here's the upshot though. With all of KZero's heroics it turns out Norway don't allow dual citinzenship nationals to play for Norway unless the resind the or give up the other passport. Mohammed Abdellaoue have both a Maroccan and Norwegian passport, and he represents us. That rule is old. Harmeet Singh is another. On that note, Marocco spent AGES trying to coerce Abdellaoue into playing for them, even offering him obscene amounts of money. But he decided to represent his home nation, and he gets too little respect for that in the Norwegian press tbh.

Example of how boring and sleep-inducing the games and the droning vuvuzela sound is how I managed to fall asleep just five minutes into the Italy match.

Is it like that Simpsons episode? It was exactly like that! The ball was out of fucking bounds and he was still screaming. I'm so happy.

Is it like that Simpsons episode?

They moved there for footballing reasons at a "late" age, I don't see how they'd identify themselves as English and don't think they should represent England. See you're differentiating now. After 5 years according to fifa then can play for Eng if they want. I've been differentiating all the time. I've clearly said from the get go that I only think people who've lived in a country almost their whole life, and identify with that country should be able to represent that country. I've also on multiple occasions said it's the five year rule that's the problem and what will eventually water out International football. so you are equally against the rule whereby a player could be born in england,live all his life in england, never have left the country not even for a weekend holiday and still play for the ukraine (purely for example) as his mother was ukranian though she left when she was 16, took up british citizenship at 20 and gave birth to him at 35 ? That's representing heritage, I have no qualms with that as long as it's the parent generation, not the grandparent. Of course there are different degrees to it, and if he only chose Ukraine because he'd never be good enough for England I'd not be for it, but you can't control, or know, that.

Fuck this shit. Fuck it in the butt.

It's tounge in cheek.

Had a look at the Italian squad last night, every single one plays in Italy but not one player from Inter in the squad - that's got to be some sort of record. Thought Cannavaro was playing for Al-Shitty these days? Ah yeah I did think I'd seen one on the BBC list but then Wiki still has him at Juventus when I just checked. My point was more about no players from the current champions of that country. He's not an Al-Shitty player before July 1st though.

I'll be massively in the green if Italy takes this -1. On the flipside though, I'll be in the red if they don't.

Well, yes. But I was counting on Cameroon being shit. I still hate that I went -1, fucking hell. I was THAT close to putting £20 on Japan rather than £10 on Japan -1

Utter s***. Scoring 1 goal in 4 games means something. Shouldn't have gone for -1 though.

That's why Japan played that keeper.

Fifa should just leave it to me like. Seriously though, all jokes aside, are you serious that the nationality should be the father's side only, and not the mother's? Not really silly. But say for instance you want to live in France all your life and you get ciitizenship and you moved to France when you were 3 or something then France should be an option. Podolski moved to Germany when he was two and identifies himself as German and you don't want him playing for Germany, but now you say it's alright? He clearly doesn't hence the crying when he scores against Poland and the not singing of the German national anthem. My point of contact with this issue is that wherever possible and notwithstanding extreme circumstances the player should play for the country he's born in or failing that the country both his or one of his parents are from or the country that gives him his first passport. I would like national identities wherever possible preserved as part of the spirit of international football. I don't really think that is an extreme position. IMO the romanticism of internation sport goes hand in hand with identity. I think the spirit of the game will be devalued if there is a free for all for the good players on where they may play, much in the way that money and greed has all but destroyed the spectacle of the PL. Actually are Norway in the EU? We're not, thank fuck for that. In general we don't have that much difference of opinion on this, we agree on most part on everything bar early neutralisation. I too think International teams should be International teams, and that people should play for the country they love the most and identify with rather than the one with the biggest opportunities. But a rule that wouldn't let people like Klose play for Germany would not be beneficial in the sense that it punishes the ones that actually wants to bleed for a country because there's a few fuckers here and there that are International glory hunters. The players should have the right to choose, but you can't control whether they choose based on feelings or opportunity. It's players like Cacau that are the problem, not people like Klose/Podolski. I don't think we are that far apart. Just was really unhappy at being called racist. I do apologize for that. I couldn't think of the equal of the Norwegian word I was thinking of, which is in no way offensive, and being without sleep for a while I was very irritable.

They moved there for footballing reasons at a "late" age, I don't see how they'd identify themselves as English and don't think they should represent England. See you're differentiating now. After 5 years according to fifa then can play for Eng if they want. I've been differentiating all the time. I've clearly said from the get go that I only think people who've lived in a country almost their whole life, and identify with that country should be able to represent that country. I've also on multiple occasions said it's the five year rule that's the problem and what will eventually water out International football.

Come on you Japanese fuckers, get another.

Fifa should just leave it to me like. Seriously though, all jokes aside, are you serious that the nationality should be the father's side only, and not the mother's? Not really silly. But say for instance you want to live in France all your life and you get ciitizenship and you moved to France when you were 3 or something then France should be an option. Podolski moved to Germany when he was two and identifies himself as German and you don't want him playing for Germany, but now you say it's alright? He clearly doesn't hence the crying when he scores against Poland and the not singing of the German national anthem. My point of contact with this issue is that wherever possible and notwithstanding extreme circumstances the player should play for the country he's born in or failing that the country both his or one of his parents are from or the country that gives him his first passport. I would like national identities wherever possible preserved as part of the spirit of international football. I don't really think that is an extreme position. IMO the romanticism of internation sport goes hand in hand with identity. I think the spirit of the game will be devalued if there is a free for all for the good players on where they may play, much in the way that money and greed has all but destroyed the spectacle of the PL. Actually are Norway in the EU? We're not, thank fuck for that. In general we don't have that much difference of opinion on this, we agree on most part on everything bar early neutralisation. I too think International teams should be International teams, and that people should play for the country they love the most and identify with rather than the one with the biggest opportunities. But a rule that wouldn't let people like Klose play for Germany would not be beneficial in the sense that it punishes the ones that actually wants to bleed for a country because there's a few fuckers here and there that are International glory hunters. The players should have the right to choose, but you can't control whether they choose based on feelings or opportunity. It's players like Cacau that are the problem, not people like Klose/Podolski.

Geremi.

They moved there for footballing reasons at a "late" age, I don't see how they'd identify themselves as English and don't think they should represent England.