I was just making a silly joke in fairness. I think he's a great player. And I think he's got pretty minimal shtick compared to some others in this match!
All the hate he gets just annoys me because it's not deserved it's not like the man ****s everything up he makes mistakes like every player does Kroos messed up a couple of passes and nothing was said.
Think I want Netherland to win the other semi final.
All European final.
It would be pretty funny if after all the great play from South-Central American teams* like Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Costa-Rica, Europe says 'so what' and totally crashes the finale party in South American soil.
* No, I didn't forget about Team Neymar. Columbia were for me, a better team.
Loved every second of it. As each German goal went in I laughed and laughed and laughed. Yes. Germany were good and Brazil were poor but Brazil have been lucky/dirty even to get to the semi-final. I hope Germany go on to win the whole thing.
I will never ever understand what Hansen is doing givcing his nothing opinion publicly. A total plonker and also a mealy-mouthed, jealous, small minded ungracious *+*#..-!
Never realised the 1978 World Cup final was as testy as that.
Frankly Argentina that day should have been banned as to quote Alf Ramsey on an earlier WC game, they played "like animals". To survive, the Dutch had to retaliate....
As I've said before I'm a huge Brazilophile - I love the food, the culture, I collect the music and like most people of my age have grown up loving the great teams of the past.
However IMO this is the culmination of a process of Brazilian football abandoning their footballing heritage years ago in a misguided attempt to copy others. It really used to annoy me how every World Cup we had boneheaded commentators creaming themselves about "Samba football" when in fact Brazil weren't playing anything of the sort. On the contrary they played a pragmatic, muscular functional style, which was disguised a little by the number of quality players they've been able to produce,
A couple of years ago Santos were absolutely massacred by a Messi-inspired Barcelona. It was shown on TV here and it was the first time I saw Neymar play - only I didn't see him play because he genuinely almost never touched the ball. After the game I had no idea what sort of player he was, or even what his favoured foot was, thanks to Barcelona's nearly eighty per cent possession.
According to what the excellent Tim Vickery on BBC's Five Live's legendary World Football phone-in said the following week, that result and the manner in which Barcelona played had put the cat among the pigeons in the Brazilian football world. It was beginning to lead to a few dissenting voices raising their head above the parapet about the direction Brazilian football had taken ever since the ethos behind the great side of '82 was rejected following the trauma of the loss against Italy.
Hopefully today's painful lesson is another step on the road to Brazil returning to the football that was a thing of beauty to anyone wh was privileged to watch it, Unfortunately most people under the age of around forty have never really seen that sort of Brazilian football live, since despite the lazy garbage talked about Samba football every time we see Brazil in a World Cup they abandoned that style a long time ago. The sides of 94, 98 and 2002 were built on the core of a functional, tough, athletic ethos where the defensive midfielders were the linchpins, with quality players disguising the fact that the ethos was not all that attractive at it's core.
I hope Germany did the football world a favour today.
Well, I have certainly got my wish for at least one memorable match, but I never thought it would be anything like this. This is a match to which those who saw it will refer for many world cups to come.
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Yep, I have been avoiding the TV commentators and pundits until now, after the match; insulting rubbish.
All the hate he gets just annoys me because it's not deserved it's not like the man ****s everything up he makes mistakes like every player does Kroos messed up a couple of passes and nothing was said.
more the fact that the brazillians were utterly INEPT in that game!!!
All European final.
Bring back ticker tape
It would be pretty funny if after all the great play from South-Central American teams* like Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Costa-Rica, Europe says 'so what' and totally crashes the finale party in South American soil.
* No, I didn't forget about Team Neymar. Columbia were for me, a better team.
I will never ever understand what Hansen is doing givcing his nothing opinion publicly. A total plonker and also a mealy-mouthed, jealous, small minded ungracious *+*#..-!
Frankly Argentina that day should have been banned as to quote Alf Ramsey on an earlier WC game, they played "like animals". To survive, the Dutch had to retaliate....
As I've said before I'm a huge Brazilophile - I love the food, the culture, I collect the music and like most people of my age have grown up loving the great teams of the past.
However IMO this is the culmination of a process of Brazilian football abandoning their footballing heritage years ago in a misguided attempt to copy others. It really used to annoy me how every World Cup we had boneheaded commentators creaming themselves about "Samba football" when in fact Brazil weren't playing anything of the sort. On the contrary they played a pragmatic, muscular functional style, which was disguised a little by the number of quality players they've been able to produce,
A couple of years ago Santos were absolutely massacred by a Messi-inspired Barcelona. It was shown on TV here and it was the first time I saw Neymar play - only I didn't see him play because he genuinely almost never touched the ball. After the game I had no idea what sort of player he was, or even what his favoured foot was, thanks to Barcelona's nearly eighty per cent possession.
According to what the excellent Tim Vickery on BBC's Five Live's legendary World Football phone-in said the following week, that result and the manner in which Barcelona played had put the cat among the pigeons in the Brazilian football world. It was beginning to lead to a few dissenting voices raising their head above the parapet about the direction Brazilian football had taken ever since the ethos behind the great side of '82 was rejected following the trauma of the loss against Italy.
Hopefully today's painful lesson is another step on the road to Brazil returning to the football that was a thing of beauty to anyone wh was privileged to watch it, Unfortunately most people under the age of around forty have never really seen that sort of Brazilian football live, since despite the lazy garbage talked about Samba football every time we see Brazil in a World Cup they abandoned that style a long time ago. The sides of 94, 98 and 2002 were built on the core of a functional, tough, athletic ethos where the defensive midfielders were the linchpins, with quality players disguising the fact that the ethos was not all that attractive at it's core.
I hope Germany did the football world a favour today.
Seconded.
Is this like porn for you or something?
Salut Germany!