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England beatable by US? England could not score against Japan. Also Mexico had a good game vs England. In CONCAF , as Dwight said in another thread, Mexico is only the third best team. The US usually plays better than Mexico and wins more often than not. So it looks like it is possible to beat England (or atleast split points)? - gs... 9 Jun 2010 17:39
World Cup Probability News Coverage Planned During the World Cup, a daily probability update in rec.sport.soccer is planned. For latest news follow worldcupratings at Twitter. World Cup Ratings 2010 uses Elo coefficients for a thorough simulation of all possible results. http://www.eloratings.net http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_Elo_Ratings ... 4 Jun 2010 14:50
Italy - Mexico SPOILER Watched the last 30 minutes of the match. Not sure how Italy played earlier, but the last 1/2 hour the famed Italy defense was pathetic and non-existent. Wide gaps in the penalty area, slow/sluggish marking of the strikers. Mexico could have scored at will but for Buffon. The result 2-1 Mexico, could easily have ... 4 Jun 2010 09:17
Heheh... So North Korea made a clever (mis)interpretation of the rules and took an extra striker as the 3rd goalie. FIFA went to work on the impertinence: "The three players listed as goalkeepers can only play as goalkeepers during the Fifa World Cup and cannot play outfield. This will be communicated to the teams in the ... 5 Jun 2010 20:16
Is it Futbolmetrix's Birthday today? (was Re: Joe Cole to Arsenal?) On Jun 3, 10:56 am, JK <jkn...(a)oacpc.com> wrote: Alkamista wrote: In other news it is being reported that Chubby Checker has taken the 3m compensation and is on his way......very likely to managerless Inter.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - If it is, the gift may be misguided. I ha... 3 Jun 2010 12:22
Is it Futbolmetrix's Birthday today? (was Re: Joe Cole to Arsenal?) Alkamista wrote: In other news it is being reported that Chubby Checker has taken the 3m compensation and is on his way......very likely to managerless Inter. ... 3 Jun 2010 11:14
Venezuelan football fans are catching up (unfortunately). Venezuelan football fans are catching up (unfortunately). Last week at San Cristobal in the return leg of the national final Tachira-Caracas, with the presence of 1.000 supporters of Caracas in a 38.000 crowd, incidents after the end of the match accounted for some vehicles damaged of four out of three TV stati... 5 Jun 2010 10:23
The John De Lange Sophisticated Prediction Contest - WC 2010 Download the spreadsheet at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AunrGmeGVqANdGlKMElQNkRHTkZFSU02YS1ySVp4V0E&hl=en and send me your entry at: futbolmetrix(a)yahoo.com (don't use other email addresses, please). As in previous WCs, there will be two concurrent contests. A watered- down, barely sophisticated ... 15 Jun 2010 22:05
TribalCrap http://www.tribalfootball.com/benitez-sacked-liverpool-880751 Now we all know tribal aint very reliable, but they may have broken the story first on the confirmed dismissal!!! Or Not!!! ... 2 Jun 2010 22:04
Dying rivalries England - Scotland: haven't met for a while (Scottish FA refused to renew the annual meet, perhaps they're waiting for a better crop of players). Anyway, the hate has been largely just one sided for 2 decades. Netherlands - Germany: a shadow of what it was from 88-92. Modern players are too PR-trained to mouth... 5 Jun 2010 20:16 |