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From: Bruce D. Scott on 4 Jul 2010 22:50 RED DEVIL (manutd11XX(a)bellsouth.net) wrote: : Benny, your opinion doesn't count for much and it changes like the : wind. For instance you wrote this about Brasil.... : >Overwhelmed? Rises the tempo? The CIV players started to kick the : >Brazilians after going 3-0 down. That's not raising the tempo and this : >Brazil team have the best defence in the World and a fearsome counter : >attack. It will take a very bad off day or a Paolo Rossi level : >performance to beat this side. : Face it, you don't really understand this game and are far from being : any kind of expert. Well, it _was_ a very bad off day for Brasil. The fact that the Dutch knew what buttons to push and they pushed all of them is no excuse. -- ciao, Bruce drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
From: Bruce D. Scott on 4 Jul 2010 22:51 JGN (jagonzal(a)gmail.com) wrote: : On Jul 4, 2:02=A0pm, Chagney Hunt <ess...(a)gmail.com> wrote: : > On Jul 4, 1:34=A0pm, hs...(a)der-ball-ist-rund.net (Sven Mischkies) wrote: : > : > > Google Beta User <wanyik...(a)gmail.com> wrote: : > : > > > It's unimaginable for Argentina or Italy to miss a World Cup. : > : > > Nah, it happened for Italy before. Argentina can't miss a WC as the : > > league like qualification gives a lot of time to make up for blunders. : > : > It helps you only need to finish top half to qualify. : Argentina was 1 match away from not qualifying for this WC. Argentina were less than 10 minutes from not qualifying in Buenos Aires in 1985, and then... well I hope you know what heppened next. -- ciao, Bruce drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
From: Bruce D. Scott on 4 Jul 2010 22:53 MH (MHnospam(a)ucalgary.ca) wrote: : Uruguay 4 -- pay attention, lads ! 1950, 1954, 1970 and 2010. You said pay attention... well I guess I am too slow. What happened in 1930? Surely there were semifinals... we've been reminded often enough that the US made them in 1930 (by winning two matches). -- ciao, Bruce drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
From: Werner Pichler on 5 Jul 2010 04:35 On 4 Jul., 19:34, hs...(a)der-ball-ist-rund.net (Sven Mischkies) wrote: > Google Beta User <wanyik...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's unimaginable for Argentina or Italy to miss a World Cup. > > Nah, it happened for Italy before. More than half a century ago. For all intents and purposes Italy can be regarded as a World Cup regular (as well as the drama usually surrounding it!) Ciao, Werner
From: Werner Pichler on 5 Jul 2010 04:37
On 5 Jul., 04:51, b...(a)ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce D. Scott) wrote: > JGN (jagon...(a)gmail.com) wrote: > > : On Jul 4, 2:02=A0pm, Chagney Hunt <ess...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > : > On Jul 4, 1:34=A0pm, hs...(a)der-ball-ist-rund.net (Sven Mischkies) wrote: > : > > : > > Google Beta User <wanyik...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > : > > : > > > It's unimaginable for Argentina or Italy to miss a World Cup. > : > > : > > Nah, it happened for Italy before. Argentina can't miss a WC as the > : > > league like qualification gives a lot of time to make up for blunders. > : > > : > It helps you only need to finish top half to qualify. > > : Argentina was 1 match away from not qualifying for this WC. > > Argentina were less than 10 minutes from not qualifying in Buenos Aires > in 1985, and then... well I hope you know what heppened next. > Not *directly* qualifying at least. They still would have been able to make it through the play-offs. Ciao, Werner |