Make Your Quarter-Finals Predictions
After some not so great predictions in the first round, we rebounded nicely picking 6 of the 8 remaining teams. How did you do? Here are your predictions from before the tournament, as well as after the first round.
Whether you guessed wrong or right you still have time to redeem yourself by selecting the four teams that will make it to the semi-finals. The games are:
Argentina vs. Germany
Italy vs. Ukraine
England vs. Portugal
Brazil vs. France
I’m going to go with Argentina, England, Italy and Brazil.
What are your predictions?
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By Tony Woods | July 7th, 2006 at 8:51 am 
Excuse me Tuguinha
“SPAIN has its HONOUR INTACT when Portugal is the laugh of the whole football world , go to your own blog and check it out, Divers!”
This is from ME not Esteban. this is not my blog but there is a page dedicated to the Portuguese fans, you’ll find it by clicking on your flag at the top of the page. I must warn you it stinks as you would expect but you will probably like it as you will be able to debate in your lingo
Kind regards
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United Kingdom
By debs | July 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pm up urs portugalha ha loosers best team won
By Tuguinha | July 7th, 2006 at 3:52 pm I know it’s from you… then i wrote to Esteban.
It stinks? It stinks because you guys are giving us a lot of attention lately.
Germaine i dont need your applause, speacially from a woman that comes here to write only about others country… you must like me as i like you… =) Lets make a friendship hahaha
If you need to correct my early posts (there’re wrong?) go to the final blog, im going to be there now. I made my point in here… so… have fun.
I expect to see some of you guys in Algarve.
Cumps à rapaziada e beijos às que merecem (nao às putas).
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By Casas Esteban | July 7th, 2006 at 5:37 pm I do not know if you will read this Tuga. And I am not sure what you mean in your last message, why writing to me if you address your message to Wood?
You are confused my friend!
To be honest you seem to be a descent guy, enjoy your game!
This is what the football media is doing to us supporter, turning us into m.o.r..o.n.s
I am fed up with the Football industry and media. It encourages Nationalism over Patriotism, Populism instead of people, stirs up hate between countries, xenophobia.
It pissed me off the other day as I was waiting to watch the Portugal France match on national on British television to hear a “journalist” saying : “So it will be waaaar tonight between France and Portugal. You should have seen his face, it was pathetic, the man was foaming at the mouth. Did he expect to see French players killing Portuguese? And can we be surprised by the behaviour of some fans when you hear things like this through “respectable” medium?
I find this disgraceful.
Talk about a beautiful game! No wonder then that some citizens(subjectsin fact) accept that their government enter unjust and fruitless wars. War becomes trivial. After all if its only a ”game”
I wish I could go to the Agarve and meet you. Nice place.
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By Jorge | July 7th, 2006 at 9:55 pm Again for all you idiots out there that understand nothing of the game nor the politics behind it. If u look at all papers printed after we won vs england, france soccer coach kept publically saying how we play dirty and what not. Referee read papers too, u dont think they go into a game haveing that behind there minds. Propaganda my friends. Portugal played much better than france. If it werent for the B.S call on carvalho, it would have been a different game. Refers werent fair went it came to portugal, because of all the B.S frances coach kept saying to the press. The only reason the French won was because the referees favored them. WE ALL NOW THAT. FYI just like ronaldo gave rooney the red card. PRESS IS THE PROBLEM HERE IDIOTS
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United States
By Tony Woods | July 7th, 2006 at 11:19 pm False mate, you are lying! Raymond Domenech, the French coach prized you, declared that if you made it so far was thanks to your qualities. He said you had to be reckoned with.
However as you realised Refs don’t live in a bubble. He probably watched your previous matches on TV or actually in stadium and made their mind up,. May that influenced his decisions?
I don’t think so.
By the way Jorge, you’ve just admitted by implication in this message that your team cheated. Indeed why would Domenech say that you are cheat? And why would a ref believe it if your team were made up of angels?
And mind your mouth. You are adding insult to injury to the reputation of Porttugal’s supporters poor reputation.
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By Tony Woods | July 7th, 2006 at 11:31 pm And I remind you that thr ref on that occasion was Spanish, France had just thrashed Spain in the previous match. Sounds to me that if he had to be biased it should have been toward your team. Did you re
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By Tony Woods | July 7th, 2006 at 11:37 pm And I remind you that thr ref on that occasion was Spanish, France had just thrashed Spain in the previous match. Sounds to me that if he had to be biased it should have been toward your team. Did you read these allegations in the Portuguese press?
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By amanda | July 8th, 2006 at 1:21 am how the hell did c. ronaldo give rooney a red card. ronney pulled down a portiguess player then stept on the other guys nuts so then ronaldo came to see if he’s team mates were ok then rooney with his anger management problems pushed ronaldo too. if it was any ones fault it was ronneys.
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New Zealand
By Tony Woods | July 8th, 2006 at 10:48 am Watch this Amanda and make up your mind
http://www.hateronaldo.com/kicking.php
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By amanda | July 9th, 2006 at 12:17 am that realli didn’t change my mkind and took for eva to load!
u realli do need to get ova it it’s only a game and do you honestly think that rooney didnt deserve to get sent off i mean we all know he has some anger problems and he just blamed it on ronaldo. plus the english would believe rooney and their all just jelous because they dont have a player half as gud as ronaldo on their team and they needed an excuse for why they lost against portugal.
REASON: because portugal was way better than them.
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By amanda | July 9th, 2006 at 12:18 am congrated to germany and portugal they both done realli well this yr.
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By amanda | July 9th, 2006 at 12:38 am (visit that site, it shows how wrong rooney was and how alot of ppl agree it was all rooney and not C.ronaldo)
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By Tony Woods | July 9th, 2006 at 9:03 am Well done Portugal, the second goal was very unlucky. They showed good spirit till the end.
As for the Rooney Ronaldo affair, Yes I think that Rooney is a liability.I don’t particularly like his attitude.
However Ronaldo is bringing a lot of discredit to his team. His diving seems to be chronic. Specialy in the penalty area of course. It happened again during the last match. The problem is also that its like the boy who cried wolf, when their is a tru foul on a portuguese the ref don’t see it.
I don’t think he is that good
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By Germaine | July 9th, 2006 at 10:25 am One thing that surprises me is that there is never question of DOPING in football.
We all remember the Festina doping scandal in cycling, theTom Simpson affair, a British cyclist who died climbing Mont Ventoux following usage of amphetamines, athletes are subject to surprise raid and random testing, during training, after the competition, before.
recently David Millar, the 2003 World-Time Trial Champion, admitted using EPO, and was stripped of his title and suspended for two years. Still later, Roberto Heras was stripped of his victory in the 2005 Vuelta a España and suspended for two years after testing positive for EPO.
But in Football? It was a well known fact that Maradona was full of coke, yet nothing was done about it before the end of his career when he confessed his “problem” .
When I watched Italy-Germany, I felt suspicious; the players must be spending more energy than marathon runners during a match, with accelerations, decelerations, dribbling, the emotions, how do they do it? When I am seeing the aggressive attitude of some players I am thinking to my self, are they in their own mind?
Where did the Italians find the oomph to play 2 hours and sustaining their rhythm. Is it all natural? Are they full of it?
What do you think?
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By Tony Woods | July 9th, 2006 at 11:15 pm O Zidane! What a let down!
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By amanda | July 9th, 2006 at 11:42 pm wow go italy and poor zidane he just made himself look bad right at the last minute.
france played realli well but ITALY ARE THE WINNERS!
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By Germaine | July 10th, 2006 at 9:37 am Well done Italy!! Zidane is an Idiot as a pro he should know better. No excuse. Italy was the best
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By Gaulois | July 10th, 2006 at 10:59 am IL n’y a pas d’excuse!!! Moi quand je pratiquais un art martial, on m’avait bien expliqué que si je me battais dans la rue, ma licence me serait retirée et le maitre du dojo ne me laisserai plus pratiqué.
Tout foot balleur qui se comprte comme ça devrait être banni à vie, Quel exemple donne il aux jeunes?
There is no excuse what so ever. When I was a semi pro martial artist, I was explained that if I got involved in a brawl, I would get my licence and access to the Dojo withdrawn.
All football player behaving like Zidane did should be banned without appeal. What kind of exemple do they give to the youth? There can’t be any excuse.
As a french I feel more ambarassed and ashamed for that than for loosing the game.
In fact we deserve to loose the game for that reason. Being red carded ZZ didnot take part in the penatty shoot out.
Zizou abruti! Zidane Dimwit!
What pisses me is that despite this the all French press says that HE WAS WRIGHT! That he must have had a good reason for acting like that! Lip readers are analysing the tapes to find out what was said. This is SHAME FULL.
THEIR IS NO EXCUSE TO VIOLENCE IN SPORT!
VIOLENT PEOPLE MUST BE EXCLUDED FROM PROFESSIONAL SPORT. THEY CAN ADRESS THEIR PROBLEM WITH A PSY and release their anger in an amateur club. It was the 15th time that ZZ head buiied an other player on a pitch. Such delinquant behaviour is punished with jail in normal life.
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By MATT | July 10th, 2006 at 5:32 pm are you kidding me ?
you english need to give it a rest. portugal won fair and square ; so u start complaining about the diving .. what are your excuses for the other times portugal beat you ? you cant beat portugal FACE IT. stop with your excuses and get on with your life. portugal is a better team than england. everyone dives look at all the italian players they dive and look they won. everyone booed ronaldo and honestly he played better. keep on hating. it will just make u feel stupid=)
thanks for all the attention !
england LOST.
get it through your heads.
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Canada
By Gaulois | July 10th, 2006 at 9:02 pm Yes you are wright, lets change the rules:
free diving, steel toe cap doc Martens, knukle dusters, don’t forget head butting, that should provide some ENTERTAINMENT!
Super, even better than american football, no pussies on the pitch though!
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By Germaine | July 10th, 2006 at 9:18 pm Gaulois, by “no pussies on the pitch”, do you mean to exclude “cute” Cristiano? He looks more like a Lady man than a tough guy. God bless him.
Well done Matt, did you manage to type all these words with two fingers? Try again without watching the keyboard. Also try not to use abusive language, I know that’s half you vocabulary, but try, that will be good for your imagination.
Good boy!
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By Germaine | July 10th, 2006 at 9:18 pm Gaulois, by “no pussies on the pitch”, do you mean to exclude “cute” Cristiano? He looks more like a Lady man than a tough guy. God bless him.
Well done Matt, did you manage to type all these words with two fingers? Try again without watching the keyboard. Also try not to use abusive language, I know that’s half you vocabulary, but try, that will be good for your imagination.
Good boy!
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By Germaine | July 10th, 2006 at 9:30 pm oops! my post got published twice, old PC I guess. Sorry every one specialy Matt I know is got enough grey matter to get my message the first time.
Oh Matt, borrow a dictionary, that could help! Don’t forget, no rude words. I know it is difficult, but you can do it!
xx 
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By Casas Esteban | July 11th, 2006 at 9:08 pm Happy summer every one ( don’t know about the Kiwis as it winter there.
I am off to Spain for a few weeks.
Hope you all had a good time. And there is no resentments.
After all it is only a game!
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