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Your Second Team After England
England may have lost the first match to Italy but I also have a second team that I will also be wanting to win as I have a few online friends from there and that's United States so I might listen to them play on Monday on BBC Radio 5 Live. Hope they will beat Ghana.
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It's always Argentina for me. Harping back to my admiration for Maradona (my first WC was Mexico '86).
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Holland as they have our manager!
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Portugal
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Nederland ever since the first WC I watched back in 74.
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The second the final whistle blows you're looking elsewhere.
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Second teams are for nobheads.
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Im a Liverpool fan and so follow their players past and present.
Id like Holland to do well because I love Total Football |
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Germany as I'm half-German.
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Don't have one. I'm English, I can't choose to be another nationality.
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Mine is perhaps not a second choice, but a team I get behind. In '90 I was just about old enough to go watch the match like an adult, in a pub with beer and stuff.
Cameroon went way beyond expected in the tournament with Roger Milla, their star player. He should have been way past it, I forget what age he was now at the time. I just remember the feel good stuff from watching this team come out of nowhere and do so bloody well, and loved every minute of watching them play
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Mine is perhaps not a second choice, but a team I get behind. In '90 I was just about old enough to go watch the match like an adult, in a pub with beer and stuff.
Cameroon went way beyond expected in the tournament with Roger Milla, their star player. He should have been way past it, I forget what age he was now at the time. I just remember the feel good stuff from watching this team come out of nowhere and do so bloody well, and loved every minute of watching them play ![]() It depends on the year. I generally have time for Ireland and Jamaica when they qualify, like some of the African countries, Brazil, France and Spain are worth watching at their best, and I have some good memories linked to Denmark and Switzerland. But the most direct answer to the question is anyone who is playing against the United States. |
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I want Brazil to be the Brazil we hope them to be. But it appears that it would be wishful thinking on my part going by the first match. An average Brazil I don't much care for.
I was very impressed by Holland so far. It's possible that finally it could be their year and I wish them luck. Unless they run into England of course. |
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Germany - 1/4 German. I think they have a really good chance too.
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Belgium - as I have them in the office sweepstake.
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I lived in Australia as a kid and still have family there, so I consider it to be my second home.
Looks like this is going to be a pretty shit World Cup for me! |
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Columbia because I once won the World Cup with them on Pro Evo. A great memory for me
I've even had a bet on them even though I KNOW they won't win it |
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I'll go for South Korea as a second team. I love K-pop. That's as tentative link as any.
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Not a second team, a joint first team because of ethnicity, but they didn't qualify so I just hope the best and most deserving team wins it once England are eliminated.
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I just support England. I don't care about the other teams. Just want to see good matches.
I may take more notice for tatical / draw reasons but then again you just have to play the team infront of you. Hoping England get the chance to play in the next round and don't care who they play if they get there. |
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Italy and that is purely because of Pirlo, a truly brilliant gifted footballer that really does deserve to hold the World Cup again.
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Don't have one. I'm English, I can't choose to be another nationality.
At onetime Brazil were nearly everyone's second team. Not so much now because the have very little of the style and flair of old. Anyway. My second team is Argentina. I've always liked Holland, and because if the Chelsea connection i'd like Belgium to do well. I also have a soft spot for the Columbians. |
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Second teams are for nobheads.
Netherlands. |
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I'm not English (nor anti-English) so my first team isn't England although I've nothing against them and will find myself rooting for them if they play attractive football the same as I get drawn towards any other nation that isn't my own.
I've liked Japan's style for a while. I also loved the way Russia played under Hiddink but haven't followed them since he left. Really, I don't have any strong loyalties at this World Cup so I can watch games purely as a neutral football fan and any pull towards a team I feel will be because I like their style. |
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Holland as they have our manager!
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