World Cup 2010 - The journey to South Africa begins...

[kev]

Well well...international football's back on the agenda after an amazing Euro 2008! The first round of fixtures begin on Saturday and there are some potential banana skins for a lot of the top nations!

How do you rate your country's chances?

Personally, not looking forward to Scotland's two tricky away games in Macedonia and Iceland. If we can manage to get 4 points from these two games we should be up there challenging.

Going to a couple of the away games hopefully. Got flights to Holland booked in March and probably Norway in August '09 :tu:

Mon the Scots :tu:

 

[dezinerite]

My country never does well...even if they play football 24/7. Ugh.

 

[thebrokenbox]

well the US usually does prety well but they really have no chance to win it.

 

[GILSAN]

Scolari left the Portugal team and headed for Chelsea. We now have Carlos Queiroz as national coach. He was assistant manager at Manchester United for 4 years. He's been experimenting with lots of diferent players. Too early to tell if we will make it, although in theory our chances are excellent, but we all know how football can surprise us all.

 

[1901gt]

My country is already out before it even started. :hehe:

 

[kev]

Yeah, I hope Scotland get to the finals. we haven't qualified for a major tournament since France '98! Mainly because we always get a bad group! for euro 2008, we had France, Italy and the Ukraine in our group! Got a decent draw this time as 2nd seeds so no excuses if we dont reach the play-offs! :hehe:

 

[StoneRoses]

England are shite,waste of space to many big names guarranteed their place.

Croatia will win the group ( again) imo.

Scotland may scrape second in their group, but Holland will win it easily.

 

[GF]

Uhhh... The USA doesn't have a chance. My money is on either Brazil, Argentina, or Italia.

 

[johname]

USA no chance

ill think about World Cup 2010 in 2010 lol

 

[Sabre]

Wales are awful.
Both Irish teams are pretty rubbish.
Scotland have a slim chance of reaching the quarters, as do England.
USA will probably qualify for the actual World Cup but won't go anywhere.

I really hope a team that maybe isn't so famous and well followed wins it, for once. Or at least gets to the final. Would be nice to see semi finals with an African, American, European and Asian nation, though I don't see it happening!

 

[kev]

Ive heard some crafty stories from Macedonia! Scottish supporters have only been giving 1000 seats and there's 5 times as many Scots there than seats. The Macedonian authorities have banned Scots from buying tickets for the home end and will only let Macedonians in. However, those Scots who've bought tickets for the home end are putting on fake tan and traditional dress to try and fool the police :hehe:

 

[StoneRoses]

Absoloute quality lol

Losing to Macendonia!

 

[kev]

Absoloute quality lol

Losing to Macendonia!

really disappointed - the ref got many crucial decisions wrong. The Macedonian guy dived after 5 mins which lead to the goal. Think 3 Macedonians were booked for diving. really poor sportsmanship.

ach well, off to Iceland.

 

[Easydoms]

Kev, you want to do a google on the ref!!! He was banned last year for a complete cock in a match!!!

My boyos just scrapped a win in cardiff!!!

 

[kev]

Interesting night last night with England winning 4-1 (unfortunately haha)

Luxembourg managed to win only there 2nd game in over 14 years away to Switzerland!

Glad the Scots got off the mark :tu:

 

[GILSAN]

Portugal were beating Denmark 2-1 just 5 minutes from the end and then conceded 2 goals to lose the game. Bloody frustrating!

 

[Easydoms]

yep, it was a lucky win for england ha ha ha!!!

Good news for scotland, but the boyos did there best in moscow!!

As for luxemburg, good on them