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New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World Cup

Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World



The funniest thing was how New Zealand overnight has become a footballing nation when there is no overt interest in the game.

What NZ needs to do is learn a lesson from us Europeans. Import a lot of immigrants. They'll play football and improve your team. Just look at the French team. How many White Frenchmen do you actually see playing?

Send some officials to Brazil with a suitcase of airplane tickets and Portuguese - English dictionaries and you guys are sorted.

New Zealand in the world cup? I thought England was the only country in the UK who qualified.

This statement is highly confusing to me.


It's a dig about Londoners who don't know New Zealand and Australia aren't part of the Union. I've meet so many ignorant people who think ANZ are countries in the way Scotland and Wales are countries.

I'm seriously sick of those "jokes".

I am too, Carrie, particularly as they refer to the invasion and occupation of your country by a military controlled by a highly distasteful regime.

I find it particularly annoying when my fellow Brits make such jokes, as if they've forgotten that France was our most fearsome military opponent for centuries.

Okay, back to the football. :)


I personally don't like the German jokes. They are almost always about the war and totally ignores the fact that the only way we beat the German army was to gang up on them with others and even then we got our asses kicked so many times.

Personally I think it's a modern backlash at how Germany despite being defeated and destroyed has beaten the UK at every single thing with the exception of teen pregnancy. While we lost our former glory and power.

Anyone else see the irony inherent in the fact that the NZ football team call themselves the 'All Whites' and the 'All Whites' are now off to South Africa for the World Cup.

'All Whites on their way to South Africa'

They'll be lynched. They need a new nickname, they sound like a white supremacist team on tour.

:guffaw:

The Irish crowd are always worth a 12th man.



Knowing the crime in South Africa. They'd get shot for a single mobile phone.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

The funniest thing was how New Zealand overnight has become a footballing nation when there is no overt interest in the game.
What NZ needs to do is learn a lesson from us Europeans. Import a lot of immigrants. They'll play football and improve your team. Just look at the French team. How many White Frenchmen do you actually see playing?

Send some officials to Brazil with a suitcase of airplane tickets and Portuguese - English dictionaries and you guys are sorted.

This statement is highly confusing to me.


It's a dig about Londoners who don't know New Zealand and Australia aren't part of the Union. I've meet so many ignorant people who think ANZ are countries in the way Scotland and Wales are countries.

I am too, Carrie, particularly as they refer to the invasion and occupation of your country by a military controlled by a highly distasteful regime.

I find it particularly annoying when my fellow Brits make such jokes, as if they've forgotten that France was our most fearsome military opponent for centuries.

Okay, back to the football. :)


I personally don't like the German jokes. They are almost always about the war and totally ignores the fact that the only way we beat the German army was to gang up on them with others and even then we got our asses kicked so many times.

Personally I think it's a modern backlash at how Germany despite being defeated and destroyed has beaten the UK at every single thing with the exception of teen pregnancy. While we lost our former glory and power.

Anyone else see the irony inherent in the fact that the NZ football team call themselves the 'All Whites' and the 'All Whites' are now off to South Africa for the World Cup.

'All Whites on their way to South Africa'

They'll be lynched. They need a new nickname, they sound like a white supremacist team on tour.

:guffaw:

The Irish crowd are always worth a 12th man.



Knowing the crime in South Africa. They'd get shot for a single mobile phone.

I thought the All Blacks were an import team anyway, isn't most of the muscle from the PI's anyway ? ;)

Are we still ahead of the Germans on heroin addiction too? I hope so.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

Depends what year you're looking at. Most All Black teams over the past few years have come from Canterbury, which is largely white or southern Maori.

Recently - and it all really depends on who (and how well they) wins the Super 14 / Air NZ Cup that year - northern teams have started populating (or repopulating) the All Blacks, and they are generally more island-based.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

Based off last night's deafeat to Brazil...

"Injuries and a lack of depth will put England out of the World Cup".
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

It's a win. After all maybe the French team will be in South Africa.
Unfortunatly, they will go with this jersey :eek: : (I hate tight jerseys like that)

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Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

It's a win. After all maybe the French team will be in South Africa.
Unfortunatly, they will go with this jersey :eek: : (I hate tight jerseys like that)

irlande-france-0-1.jpg


Whats with the girly arms?
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

Whats with the girly arms?

You mean the sleeves ?
Don't know, maybe they thought that Ireland was too close to the arctic circle :p

These tight football shirts are 'de rigeur' these days I'm afraid Carrie. They aid persperation dispersal and make it harder for an opponent to grab the shirt as you pop the ball through his legs and 'nutmeg' him. They look dreadful on your average footy fan too, pint swilling, pie eating monsters !! This geezer supports Newcastle, he's about average........

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Not that Anelka ever works up a sweat for anyone or anything, he's a lazy ass in the Premiership.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

Whats with the girly arms?

You mean the sleeves ?
Don't know, maybe they thought that Ireland was too close to the arctic circle :p

The fact that he has monster legs but his arm is so thin. Normally most men train their upper body more then their leg but seeing it this way around looks strange.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

ThePlumsofWrath;3586541These tight football shirts are [I said:
'de rigeur'[/I] these days I'm afraid Carrie.

Yeah, I know. It's horrible, I will have to watch football only for sport now :(

The fact that he has monster legs but his arm is so thin. Normally most men train their upper body more then their leg but seeing it this way around looks strange.

I can't help here. That said, he needs more to have good legs than good arms ;)
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

Whats with the girly arms?
You mean the sleeves ?
Don't know, maybe they thought that Ireland was too close to the arctic circle :p
The fact that he has monster legs but his arm is so thin. Normally most men train their upper body more then their leg but seeing it this way around looks strange.
Um...soccer player?
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

Speaking of weekend Euros, I hate my Wales team right now. Our empathic win over the men in Tartan on Saturday was excellent, yes... but, combined with the bizarre occurence of us actually having one or two quality players for once, it makes Toshack look good and now we'll NEVER BE RID OF HIM. John Toshack. Shining example of why most ex-Liverpool players go on the sofa, not in the dug-out.

Wonderful weekend of sport though. England pathetic against Brazil, smashed by South Africa, humiliated by Argentina and destroyed by Australia. Beautiful. If only all weekends were so sweet!

Plums, If England DO end up in the same group as NZ and need to win in the last game to qualify, by the way, forget the 4-0 requirement - they'd struggle to muster up a 2-0. NZ played well in the Confederations Cup, as did SA, so I will cheer on the rugby rejects against all the footballing superpowers (and England)!
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

So if England doesn't make it, is that a big deal?

Did the US make it?

I'll watch a World Cup game if the US in playing, but other than that don't know a things about soccer.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

It's only a big deal for England not to make it for the English. They weren't at the last big championships and no one missed them at all.

USA qualified some time ago now so they will be there. Draw for the first stages is on Friday 4th December.
 
Re: New Zealand will be to blame for putting England out of the World

It's only a big deal for England not to make it for the English.
And even then not all of them. I like watching England in the World Cup but I really hope they don't win as we'd never hear the end of it.
 
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