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MarkCDodd........Australia and Germany match you what ?....Tough ! ! mate
Mike.

MarkCDodd.........mate you wish you were as good as New Zealand at Rugby they have always been to show you lot a thing or two !
Mike

I like your arrogance MarkCDodd.........Typical !!......and natural for you lot.
Mike.

mikleed wrote:I like your arrogance MarkCDodd.........Typical !!......and natural for you lot.
Mike.

mike lets keep this topic as friendly banter and not get person please

Petard........ MCD is doing exactly the same about other countries he is slagging all !.....tell him mate. Have you read his posts ?
Mike

mikleed wrote:Petard........ MCD is doing exactly the same about other countries he is slagging all !.....tell him mate. Have you read his posts ?
Mike

other countries mike not individuals people thats what im refering to, so lets all keep it friendly please

You leave Mike alone Petard!!
He,The Aussie,calls football soccer!!

Slagging?

I complemented New Zealand on their Rugby by hinting nobody beats them.

I stated a fact about the size of countries not making the slightest difference about their sporting ability which was the topic being discussed.

How the hell is that being insulting?

Try reading my posts yourself.

Stop accusing me of things I have not done.

I did not have a go at a single country, simply stated facts to do with the topic of population size.

Stop this rubbish about the Aussies about being arrogant.

We approach things with an "I can do" attitude so live with it.

It is called "confidence", not arrogance.

We call it Soccer, the same as the Americans do, because, like the Americans, we have other codes called football.

In Australia we have Rugby Union, Rugby League and Australian Rules as well as Soccer.

Why would we call the "round ball" game football? Why would it have any more claim to that title in Australia than the other three codes?

Did you know the oldest surviving club of any code of football in the world is an Australian Rules team. So that game has far more claim to the name "football" than soccer does in Australia.

The name Socca or Soccer originated in England in 1889 to differentiate it from the Rugby. It was easier than calling it "Association Football".

So continue to have a go for us using a word that originates from England being used in the context for which it was invented.

Anything else ? ?
Mike

Yeah,anything else? Ozzie!!

Yes, don't forget I am English.

So who's gonna win today's matches - I've got

New Zealand 1 - Slovakia 1
Ivory Coast 0 - Portugal 2
Brazil 2 - North Korea 0

lets have your predictions

well done mall! no1 is right

You don't sound very patriotic ! !........you could have fooled me that your English.
Mike.

beardie wrote:well done mall! no1 is right

Not so sure i've got the 2nd one right Beardie