Here we go, here we go, here we go ... it's the WORLD CUP! (soccer)

[Skell18]

Australia lost to the Dutch... My poor Aussies, I feel your pain.

Still though, you gotta hand it to the Netherlands. They've shocked many people this time around with their fine footy skills.

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Next up: England v Uruguay

If the Brits lose this match, I'm going to be depressed until it's our turn to play. Come on lads, let's do this..!!

Hardly shocking the Netherlands doing well, they're a top squad, the shock (apparently) was Brazil drawing their last game. England will lose, you heard it here first.

[joserra]

Yes... I´m afraid it´s the end...

And Chile is being the Grim Reaper.

[squeezyjohn]

Hardly shocking the Netherlands doing well, they're a top squad, the shock (apparently) was Brazil drawing their last game. England will lose, you heard it here first.

I knew you were Welsh!

[Skell18]

I knew you were Welsh!

No, I'm a rugby fan, a proper sport where England are actually good and have been to more than one World Cup final this century!

[squeezyjohn]

Australia lost to the Dutch... My poor Aussies, I feel your pain.

Still though, you gotta hand it to the Netherlands. They've shocked many people this time around with their fine footy skills.

The Dutch are famous for their great football ever since the 1970s ... they invented the total football tactic! It was an exciting match against the Aussies ... I want to like the Aussies - but they played rough and dirty ... and Cahill broke a man's arm for no reason and got away with it. So great that the Dutch went through to the next round and the Aussies went out - don't need any more spoilers in the competition!

[Crow]

Rugby is nice, but these days I'm all over Australian Rules Football... Intense, fun, and best of all: there's a team named after me. Caw!

[squeezyjohn]

No, I'm a rugby fan, a proper sport where England are actually good and have been to more than one World Cup final this century!

Haha - it's a lot easier to be better at a sport only played in countries which are ex-empire, have an aristocracy (plus Argentina who seem to do it for sheer bloody-mindedness).

Don't get me wrong - I like a good game of rugby, but it's simply not as much fun to watch most of the time ... the viewing figures worldwide don't lie!

But I'm sure you'll point out that I simply don't have the required (in)breeding to appreciate such a fine manly game :-P

[Crow]

The Dutch are famous for their great football ever since the 1970s ... they invented the total football tactic! It was an exciting match against the Aussies ... I want to like the Aussies - but they played rough and dirty ... and Cahill broke a man's arm for no reason and got away with it. So great that the Dutch went through to the next round and the Aussies went out - don't need any more spoilers in the competition!

Well, they sure shocked this yank. It was a fine performance

[alopezg1]

Rugby is nice, but these days I'm all over Australian Rules Football... Intense, fun, and best of all: there's a team named after me. Caw!

Rugby is for posh people Crow ....

[Crow]

No, I'm a rugby fan, a proper sport where England are actually good and have been to more than one World Cup final this century!

Sort of like Major League Baseball and the "World" Series?

[alopezg1]

i wouldn't know

[Skell18]

Sort of like Major League Baseball and the "World" Series?

No, there are actually other countries who take part ;-) we host it next year, I can't wait!

[squeezyjohn]

Rugby is nice, but these days I'm all over Australian Rules Football... Intense, fun, and best of all: there's a team named after me. Caw!

^^^^ this!!!

I love Aussie rules - have done since the first time it was televised in the UK while I was a teenager. I'm a massive Collingwood fan - and played for my university with a load of Aussie students (and a few Gaelic footballers who converted).

It's probably the most pure form of football that exists today - by that I mean the closest to the original type of game before it was codified in the mid 1800s ... it has very few rules compared to most codes which means it really flows and is a real physical game too.

Love it to pieces ... shame it's not on telly in the UK anymore :-(

[alopezg1]

a jolly good game of rugger what ho

[squeezyjohn]

No, there are actually other countries who take part ;-) we host it next year, I can't wait!

The rugby world cup is in Wales???

yeah yeah - the USA, Canada and Ivory Coast might as well just turn up to polish the boots - the chance they've got of scoring a try!!

For anyone who doesn't follow rugby ... these are the only teams which really compete:

England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
France
(Italy - a bit rubbish though)
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
(Argentina - only join in so they can stamp on English heads)

A few others scrape together a team like the small polynesian islands ... but all their best players end up playing for New Zealand anyway! The US, Canada and Japan and various other random countries occasionally field a team ... but they are awful!

So it's hardly a world sport like football is it?