World Cup Debate: Can England Win The World Cup?

blutgraetsche wrote:That's inevitable COTR. We always have to win in spite of Otto's kiss of death.

Spider Crouch wrote:You would have thought our dear Otto would have resisted making any more predictions after a series of corkers over the last 4 years.

Torres was to be a flop at Liverpool

>>>>> in proportion to the money spent, Liverpool could have done FAR BETTER: just think of Santa Cruz >>>>

Germany were to be WC winners 2006

>>>>>>> NOBODY could have forseen the Klinsi-Löw effect; they ruined everything

still, I DID call for Klinsi to get the SACK after the FIASCO in Florence >>>


Rooney was to be washed up at the age of 21

>>>> he still does NOT score against DECENT opposition in the EPL or internationally ; 002 is to football what the White Concrete Post is to F1 ; utterly fails when the going gets TOUGH; decent when everybody is cruising >>>>>>

Podolski/Kuranyi/Klose/Gomes was to be the hottest striker in World Football

>>Gomez will go GLOBAL ; Kuranyi is one of the BEST HEADERS in the WOLRD ; Klose has OVERTAKEN RUmmenigge in the ALL-TIME Goal-scorer charts for Germany, I think, and Poldi has INSANE stats for Germany as well >>>

Roma were to knock out Manchester United at OT (they lost 7-1)

>> just teasing >>

Munich were to knock out Milan (they lost 4-0)

>>> cannot remember, you probably made that up >>

Hamilton was to be the new Button

>>> the Black Button is a laughing stock right now ; even in England, the fall from grace of the Tiger Woods of F1 is unprecendented and rightly so >>

Kaymer was to become the best golfer in Europe

>> the guy just won Continental Europe's biggest tournament, the Paris Open, followed by the Scottish Open, an achievement previously reached only by Woosnam AGES ago

Kaymer WILL become the world number ONE in due course >>>

and so on.

>> I was the first to spot the GENIUS of Vettel; the first to spot the GENIUS of Hülkenberg ; the FIRST to get excited about Özil; the first to tell you Gordon Brown would be a total flop, ditto Cameron , ditto Obama..........................

if you have ANY brains in your Hungarian skull, my good Bernd, you will have started BETTING on my predictions

you would be the Richard Branson of Hungary by now, think about it>>>>

The one prediction he DID get correct was South Africa to win the Rugby World Cup in 2007, but the moral of that story is that even the ugly guy will eventually get to buy a girl a drink so long as he asks enough times

blutgraetsche wrote:It's about peaking at the right time. Many teams have peaked at the wrong time and didn't win anything, despite looking like huge favourites prior to the tournament. Others were totally disappointing in the qualification and won the title.

That's why it's impossible to say how things will look like in a year.

Well, almost...

kas wrote:

blutgraetsche wrote:It's about peaking at the right time. Many teams have peaked at the wrong time and didn't win anything, despite looking like huge favourites prior to the tournament. Others were totally disappointing in the qualification and won the title.

That's why it's impossible to say how things will look like in a year.

Well, almost...

That's why I'm still resisting putting Spain as favourites. I'm already surprised that they've maintained their hot streak of form until now. Perhaps in that sense the defeat to the US in the Confed Cup was a good "come back down to earth" call for the team.

With all their top players at big clubs which will have tough seasons ahead, I can already see Spain burning out when the tournament comes around.

Özil wrote:

MadVillain wrote:If someone poisons both Brazil, Germany & Spain before the tournament, it's wide open.

72-76-80-96-08 wrote:

Spider Crouch wrote:You would have thought our dear Otto would have resisted making any more predictions after a series of corkers over the last 4 years.

Torres was to be a flop at Liverpool

>>>>> in proportion to the money spent, Liverpool could have done FAR BETTER: just think of Santa Cruz >>>>

Germany were to be WC winners 2006

>>>>>>> NOBODY could have forseen the Klinsi-Löw effect; they ruined everything

still, I DID call for Klinsi to get the SACK after the FIASCO in Florence >>>


Rooney was to be washed up at the age of 21

>>>> he still does NOT score against DECENT opposition in the EPL or internationally ; 002 is to football what the White Concrete Post is to F1 ; utterly fails when the going gets TOUGH; decent when everybody is cruising >>>>>>

Podolski/Kuranyi/Klose/Gomes was to be the hottest striker in World Football

>>Gomez will go GLOBAL ; Kuranyi is one of the BEST HEADERS in the WOLRD ; Klose has OVERTAKEN RUmmenigge in the ALL-TIME Goal-scorer charts for Germany, I think, and Poldi has INSANE stats for Germany as well >>>

Roma were to knock out Manchester United at OT (they lost 7-1)

>> just teasing >>

Munich were to knock out Milan (they lost 4-0)

>>> cannot remember, you probably made that up >>

Hamilton was to be the new Button

>>> the Black Button is a laughing stock right now ; even in England, the fall from grace of the Tiger Woods of F1 is unprecendented and rightly so >>

Kaymer was to become the best golfer in Europe

>> the guy just won Continental Europe's biggest tournament, the Paris Open, followed by the Scottish Open, an achievement previously reached only by Woosnam AGES ago

Kaymer WILL become the world number ONE in due course >>>

and so on.

>> I was the first to spot the GENIUS of Vettel; the first to spot the GENIUS of Hülkenberg ; the FIRST to get excited about Özil; the first to tell you Gordon Brown would be a total flop, ditto Cameron , ditto Obama..........................

if you have ANY brains in your Hungarian skull, my good Bernd, you will have started BETTING on my predictions

you would be the Richard Branson of Hungary by now, think about it>>>>

The one prediction he DID get correct was South Africa to win the Rugby World Cup in 2007, but the moral of that story is that even the ugly guy will eventually get to buy a girl a drink so long as he asks enough times