Preview: England vs. Paraguay

June 10th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

GAME DETAILS
England vs. Paraguay, Frankfurt, 15:00 CET

THE BIG PICTURE
The weight of expectations hang heavily on England’s shoulders and its opening match-up against a tricky Paraguay team could set the tone for the tournament. Paraguay has advanced to the second round the past two World Cup competitions and is hoping the return of striker Roque Santa Cruz will offset the phenomenon that is known as Peter Crouch. Sit back, relax and by all means feel free to break out your robot dance.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Chris sez: 3-0 England
Sean sez: 2-0 England
Nick sez: 2-1 Paraguay
Peter sez: 2-2
Bob sez: 1-0 England, no robot dance.

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Paraguay

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Itaipu power station on the Parana River near the Brazil-Paraguay border generates 12,600 megawatts of power, providing 78% of Paraguay’s electricity and 26% of Brazil’s power.

Paraguay celebrates “Childrens Day” on August 16 and all the grade-school age children get the day off to go play football.

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England was part of the shortest war in world history. The 37 minute, 23 second war began when Adm. Sir Henry Rawson bunched his war ships off the coast of Zanzibar to unload officers to watch a cricket match. Incensed at the concentration of warships in his harbor, the Sultan of Zanzibar declared war and sent one ship into battle. The British responded by bombarding the Sultan’s castle, sinking the lone battleship, and sending the Sultan into exile.

In Chester, England, one can legally shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow if they are inside the city walls after midnight.

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Rolf

England will win this one 4-0
http://none kyle

england are guna kik the livin shit out of them:score=1-3 england
Papa

England are wussies paraguay viva 5-0
ammar

PARAGUAY 8-0 …

ENGLAND GOING DOWN!!
Akbar

What the hell have you people been drinking?
Ali Siddiqui

Robot dancing for the English side once they get a goal!! :D
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http://www.aresthetics.ch/trav Adrian Wagner

Ok, the guys are a little bit exaggerating. But the English will be over-confident in this one – and get a nose-stub. If they’re lucky, they’ll pull off a draw.

And I shall be dancing in the streets! ;)
Karl

England will just squeak by 8-5 over Paraguay.
http://www.typeinternational.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=3865_38_3_75 Naveed Mamdani

England wins Today match 2-0
Joman

England will win with 3:1.
Indvance congrats…
Hope to wel do both teams…
Denni

England is the land of excuses. This is the country where trains get delayed ‘because of the wrong kind of snow’. The rainiest country in Europe that has drought orders. The place where–when somebody’s staggering incompetence causes havoc or outright disaster–’more training’ is recommended.

So what was the excuse on offer in the dying minutes of the game?

“Of course, the first match of the tournament is always the most difficult!”

Eh??

But England scraped through, so I’m not complainin’
enzo

You are right, Denni, England is the land of excuses and with England just scraping through 1-0 against Paraguay, when it expected a far better score excuses had to be made, but to blame the weather is a bit rich. David Beckham agreed with Eriksson “you don’t realise how hot it was out there, we were exhausted”. I suppose it wasn’t hot for Paraguay, only England felt the heat. The weather excuse is as old as Methuselah – unacceptable. Try another one Beckham.
Tam Nguyen

Italy will win in the ‘GERMANY FIFA WORLD CUP 2006′ against France