Roiling football blather

[baboon2004]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/11/robert-enke-hannover-96-germany

So sad on lots of levels.

RIP Enke.

 

[crackerjack]

"The commission considered his admitted remarks, in the context in which they were made, were not just improper but were grossly improper and wholly inappropriate. He should never have said what he did say."

Is there a penalty for bringing the English language into disrepute?

 

[don_quixote]

pot A:
south africa
brazil
england
spain
germany
italy
argentina
france (if not france, portugal, if not portugal, holland)

pot B:
ghana
paraguay
cote d'ivoire
chile
ecuador/costa rica
cameroon/gabon
tunisia/nigeria
algeria/egypt


pot C:
holland
denmark
switzerland
slovakia
serbia
3 from russia/ukraine/portugal/ireland/bosnia/slovenia/greece

pot D:
north korea
south korea
japan
australia
usa
mexico
honduras
new zealand

new zealand have just qualified after beating bahrain 1-0. well done new zealand. i am so excited about the qualifiers this weekend!!

 

[don_quixote]

fuck me this is the mother of all qualifiers. forget uruguay-argentina...

2-0 egypt and it goes to a play-off!!

 

[don_quixote]

14/11/09 13:00 Mozambique vs Tunisia
14/11/09 15:30 Morocco vs Cameroon
14/11/09 15:30 Togo vs Gabon
14/11/09 13:30 Rwanda vs Zambia
14/11/09 13:00 Kenya vs Nigeria
14/11/09 16:00 Burkina Faso vs Malawi
14/11/09 16:00 Côte d'Ivoire vs Guinea
14/11/09 16:00 Russia vs Slovenia
14/11/09 17:30 Egypt vs Algeria
15/11/09 02:00 Costa Rica vs Uruguay
14/11/09 17:00 Sudan vs Benin
14/11/09 20:00 Ireland vs France
14/11/09 18:00 Greece vs Ukraine
14/11/09 20:30 Portugal vs Bosnia
15/11/09 17:00 Ghana vs Mali
18/11/09 18:00 Ukraine vs Greece
18/11/09 19:45 Bosnia vs Portugal
18/11/09 19:45 Slovenia vs Russia
18/11/09 23:00 Uruguay vs Costa Rica
18/11/09 20:00 France vs Ireland

times are uk times - they're all over the place because they're organised by local times for some reason.

 

[crackerjack]

it's a good weekend for tv football:

3 international friendlies, if you can be bothered

1 wc play-off

all leading up to the big one tomorrow.....with new man gus poyet in charge

i'll be watching through the cracks between my fingers

 

[Lewis]

I'm going to put an accumulator on Portugal, France & Russia to all qualify. Can't decide between Greece and Ukraine and whether to bung one of them in or not. :slanted:

I feel dirty though because I want the Republic to qualify.

 

[Lewis]

fuck me this is the mother of all qualifiers. forget uruguay-argentina...

2-0 egypt and it goes to a play-off!!

How can Egypt dominate the African Nations and yet systematically fail to get the WC? They've got an uphill struggle tonight.

Nigeria are teetering on the brink as well, which I think is a shame personally.

The path NZ have had to the finals is absolutely farcical. A group containing New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu and then a 2-leg play off against Bahrain? My local side could have a stab at that

 

[crackerjack]

I'm going to put an accumulator on Portugal, France & Russia to all qualify. Can't decide between Greece and Ukraine and whether to bung one of them in or not. :slanted:

I feel dirty though because I want the Republic to qualify.

ukraine looked tidy home and away against england. greece came 2nd in the weakest group...

How can Egypt dominate the African Nations and yet systematically fail to get the WC? They've got an uphill struggle tonight.

I fear for anyone of the wrong appearance caught up in the vicinity of tonight's match, i really do

 

[don_quixote]

20mins to go, nigeria go 2-1 up in kenya... tunisia still drawing away to mozambique

 

[don_quixote]

http://www.justin.tv/mangaplus13

mozambique - tunisia

 

[don_quixote]

Kenya equalise!!!

 

[don_quixote]

3-2 nigeria!!! martins!!

 

[don_quixote]

1-0 mozambique!! bloody hell this is so awesome

 

[crackerjack]

you're kinda taking the excitement out of the bbc's minute-by-minute coverage, which is currently 5 mins behind :slanted:

so who goes through at the mo? nigeria?

 

[don_quixote]

nigeria... they are 2 points behind tunisia going into these games at the moment tunisia are relying on a kenyan equaliser, they need to win to guarantee going through

 

[don_quixote]

here are the links to the games:
http://www.justin.tv/mangaplus13
http://eplsite.com/channel3.html

 

[crackerjack]

here are the links to the games:
http://www.justin.tv/mangaplus13
http://eplsite.com/channel3.html

no, no, no, work to do

 

[don_quixote]

nigeria qualify for the world cup!

 

[don_quixote]

i think we can safely say cameroon are going through

and then it's just one more to sort out from africa