waerth Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Well Paul the Octopus has only predicted games with Germany in it so far! Other animals say: Mani the bird in Malaysia: Netherlands Elephant in Northern Thailand: Spain Sealion in Isaan: Netherlands Pieter the Octopus in Belgium: Netherlands Pigeon of famous Dutch person: Netherlands etc etc etc ....... What makes Paul scary is because he has been right many times. But then again those were only Germany games and some researches say he always goes for the one with the yellow in the flag etc etc etc .... Anyway now serious. The Dutchman in me says: Netherlands will win nae non! Although I am not 100% sure .... I actually give both countries a 50% chance. The difference will be made by how much the players want to go for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Paul predicted all games correctly for the German during the 08 EC except for the finals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 The octopus predicted the 2008 EC finals wrongly! The octupos was right again. :content: Congrats to Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Playing against 12 man and an octopus is a challenge. Now if we would have played against 11 man and an octopus ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 I was cheering for Holland but the best team won. Spain deserved the win. I thought Fabregas made Spain a more effective team when he came on. I also thought Robben was a bit too selfish with the ball and needed to pass when up to 3 players at times tried to close him down. Surely he knows if he sees three players around someone has to be open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Well if Spain would have been that much better I would have been ok. The problem is, I saw: * A referee that bungled many decisions, Iniesta should have seen red. * A referee that clearly showed favouritism * A Dutch team that missed a couple of big chances (Robben's) * A Spanish team that bungled a couple of big chances. In short, Spain was better, but just slightly. Not by that much. But the referee clearly grossed in blunders certainly in the minutes leading up to the goal, he made 3 in a row which were the direct cause of Spain's goal! So no, this game will be talked about in 30 years from now. Because with an impartial referee it could have been totally different. Now the Dutch team played against 12 man instead of 11. And the 12th man send of one Dutch player. So the Spanish needed 12 men to beat 10 Dutch players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 It's understandable that you're dissappointed, but to suggest that the Dutch were almost as good as the Spanish and only lost because of the referee is a joke. The Dutch were totally negative in the first half and only wanted to kick their opponents off the pitch. No wonder Webb had no choice but to book so many of your players. Although as a neutral I wouldn't have minded if the match had gone to a penalty shoot out, I'm glad it didn't coz the Dutch might of won, when they didn't deserve to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous God Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Depending on the fort, the slave trade departed for different areas, the Surinam slaves came somewhere south of Cape Coast I was told, each castle is pretty impressive, and had specific trade routes. Note the cannon aimed at the local soccer field. No wonder the Ghana team did so well!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 It's understandable that you're dissappointed, but to suggest that the Dutch were almost as good as the Spanish and only lost because of the referee is a joke. The Dutch were totally negative in the first half and only wanted to kick their opponents off the pitch. No wonder Webb had no choice but to book so many of your players. Although as a neutral I wouldn't have minded if the match had gone to a penalty shoot out, I'm glad it didn't coz the Dutch might of won, when they didn't deserve to. The referee could have given a penalty kick to to the Spaniards. Also one of the Dutch players (was it Robben?) could have received a yellow/red card for kicking the ball into goal after the referee had blown the whistle. I guess only the Dutch think that the referee decided the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 I guess only the Dutch think that the referee decided the game. Not this Dutchman. Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff has launched a scathing attack on Netherlands' display in the World Cup final, deriding it as "anti-football". The Dutch received nine yellow cards, and a red card for Johnny Heitinga, as they lost 1-0 to Spain in South Africa. "Sadly, they played very dirty," Cruyff told Spanish newspaper El Periodico. "This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style... If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost." "They should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two [such] ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage," said the 63-year-old Cruyff. "It hurts me that Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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