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[Archived] World Cup 2014

Stuart

By Stuart
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thenodrog World Cup

thenodrog

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Brazil's one of the largest countries in the world.

Irrespective of all that the circumference of the entire planet is only 26000 miles! Basic general knowledge. Did nobody else do geography O level?

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Audax

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Coastlines are always often so long, one could make a case that Manaus mainly looks far because it is so far inland. Again, I know little of there, once read a book by someone who lived in one of the coastal cities. I guess most of Brazil really is forest, rainforest, population concentrated on the coast as this satellite picture shows (interesting how the Falklands are all lit up): http://subdude-site.com/WebPics/WebPicsEarthLights/south_america_hilights_429x600.jpg

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West Yorks Rover

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The whole thing is a nationalistic yawnfest.

Would rather go watch Darwen FC.

Agreed !

Although we will probably see a couple of top games, with some brilliant football, once England have gone home of course.

perthblue02 World Cup

perthblue02

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A fixed world cup draw, someone thinks so http://soccerly.com/article/leigh/video-questions-fifas-credibility-over-draw

And Blatter's nephew and his company announce a new venture in Qatar - http://www.infrontsports.com/nc/presscenter/newsdetail/article/aspireinfront-joint-venture-se/91/ . Lucky bloke after the same company won the hospitality contract for the South African world cup. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/148233/FIFA-boss-Sepp-Blatter-gives-342m-contract-to-his-nephew

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A fixed world cup draw, someone thinks so http://soccerly.com/article/leigh/video-questions-fifas-credibility-over-draw

And Blatter's nephew and his company announce a new venture in Qatar - http://www.infrontsports.com/nc/presscenter/newsdetail/article/aspireinfront-joint-venture-se/91/ . Lucky bloke after the same company won the hospitality contract for the South African world cup. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/148233/FIFA-boss-Sepp-Blatter-gives-342m-contract-to-his-nephew

All pure coincidence of course. FIFA and its associates are bywords for transparency and honesty. Just like the contracts that were given to exploit Iraqi oil.

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Indeed. Funny how there was a sudden change in procedure when it was clear that France might lose out and get a dire group. You'd think that the head of UEFA was a former French international, who had been a big backer of a middle eastern world cup.

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England's first match as we all know is vs. Italy. Italy didn't advance from the group stage last World Cup, they finished last in group F behind Paraguay, Slovakia and New Zealand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup . Italy made the Euro Final 2012 but still, it shows England will have to be ready for Italy who won't want a repeat of 2010 and Italy likewise are in the same tough group.

First fixture in Manaus BUT 2nd fixture vs. Uruguay is in Sao Paulo and 3rd vs. Costa Rica is in Belo Horizonte.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25273835

perthblue02 World Cup

perthblue02

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Of course, Jerome Valcke is French.

Brazil v France final anyone?

Septic Bladder as refuted claims that the draw was rigged to allow a Brazil v France final as France go out in the semi - finals 5-4 on penalties to eventual runners up Germany

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And the Swiss have never got up to any shady business as a nation. That's why they traditionally guard that other clean and incorruptible institution-The Papacy.

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Switzerland did defeat Brazil in a friendly last summer, I believe they won on an own goal but still, Brazil should never lose to Switzerland and a few years ago, Luxembourg, the Big Dutchy defeated Switzerland but as for football itself, it does appear the Swiss have a fairly good team. Though I'd be of the view, I'll see it when I believe it.

June 16, 2010, http://eloratings.net/Switzerland.htm you can see they actually defeated Spain at the World Cup which I'm sure many remember. They are #8 FIFA, #14 ELO rating. So, at the least, this team is probably one of their best in a long time. I believe in 1954, they were semifinalists in the World Cup they hosted.

http://int.soccerway.com/teams/rankings/fifa/?ICID=TN_04_03_01

http://eloratings.net/

But as a rule, it seems Switzerland has not been in the running for much in recent years.

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That ELO table is interesting, Doesn't really tell you anything, interesting to see nonetheless:

All time:

Swiss Goals For/Against 1051/1280

England Goals For/Against 2096/935

Brazil Goals For/Against 1983/848

Germany Goals For/Against 1978/1033

Enjoy it while you can, looks like England are the only team to score over 2000 goals, I'd say in part it is due to the old Home-Nations matches that were so popular. All of the results are listed for each country at the ELO site, close to comprehensive. England might steam-roll Wales or Ireland back in the old days but vs. Scotland it tended to always be close as it still seems to be. http://eloratings.net/England.htm

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