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Dude, be fair. Germany's had a great result in this tournament. I'd say they're far from 'shadow' of a team, rather a team of the future, full of young players who will get better. They'll bea real threat in the next Euro Championship, which will be in neighboring Switzerland, no? Germany's...

These player feuds tend to be more built up in the fans' minds and the tabloid press. Rooney and Ronaldo are both prefessional football players who make a lot of money playing for Man Utd so I imagine by next autumn they'll be cordial to one another, if Ronaldo doesn't get transferred.

My prediction for Germany Italy The German attack has looked brilliant so far in this tournament but their defence has looked vulnerable at times, though it was fairly impressive vs the highly regarded Argentines. I predict however that the Italian Catenaccio will hold the germans back, and if...

Oh yeah, England definitely didn't have their top strikers there. I'm just saying it's not the only factor. There is skill in taking penalties and blocking them, but luck is also a huge factor.

White Wolf's site was hacked not long ago by some people looking to steal credit card data. I can certainly see this as a reason people would avoid ordering from their site (though WW may have in fact solved the problem entirely).

In the penalty shootout I think a little too much has been made of the English strikers failing; the Portuguese keeper, Ricardo, saved three of the penalties. He also got a bt lucky guessing where the English strikers would shoot. The portuguese strikers actually missed the goal completely...

The thing is, there was much of the same discussion in France about Zidane--I met multiple french supporters who said France played better without him. Then Zidane delivers two of the best games of his career vs Spain and vs Brazil. I certainly would think Brazil ought to have a young player...

Time to start talking serious about who's going to win it. Only four teams left (duh!) I've checked several bookies and they all favor Germany. Most have France as a tight second choice but one had Italy in that position. All have Portugal as a 6/1 or 7/1 outsider. I would say the competion...

Going back to ENG-POR, I thought it was an incredibly negative football match with Portugal's constant antics and diving, and then Rooney's red card on the other side. Portugal played incredibly lame after Rooney went off--they were tentative and when their shots came they seemed to be weak...

Reaction to France-Brazil match Oh La La! That about sums it up. I've posted many times I didn't think France had chances this year with their age and the poor performances in the group stage, not to mention in previous competitions. But wow, Les Bleus managed to raise their game to the...

And you were telling me about team's accomplishment's that one cannot ignore :). Brazil had appeared in 3 straight WC final matches, winning two of them. Talk about consistancy. So, in short, they almost never lose. It's close to never losing, but not quite.

Italy is still undefeated, though they have one draw.

Italy beat Ukraine 3-0, probably ending the only WC ever for Andrey Shevchenko. Shevchenko got very few chances unfortunately but had some dazzling display. Italy got great play from Buffon, and I think my claim that he's the best keeper in the tourney is looking reasonable. This was the best...

No not bad, but they had a few lackluster draws to unimpressive opponents, such as Isreal. They also were fourth in their group until the last match and were certainly in grave danger of missing the Cup entirely (admittedly, they won their last match comfortably and topped their group, so...

Thanks for the tips guys. I've sent Amazon a 'suspicious Email' message using the link for that purpose on their website--I'll report the response here (still waiting). Just for safety's sake I've changed my password there and taken a couple of otehr precautions. One other issue I've...

I've been contacting Amazon about a lost order and I've asked them to resend a package, which they've agreed to do. However, in the last email I got from them, they asked me to reconfirm my credit card number. They provide two telephone numbers I can call to do this. Here's the text: Before...

Quarterfinal predictions Well, I haven't exactly done well with my predictions up to now. Anyway, on with my picks... Germany--Argentina: How to pick this one? Two former champs who met in a final once. Both playing amazingly well so far. They've scored fantastic goals and showed some...

As far as I remember the USA is ranked rather high... Anyway, I wasn't expecting France to play so well because of their poor performance in the last world cup and in the qualifying for this world cup (they only just qualified and their group wasn't that strong) and less than impressive...

Spain-France pregame Kick-off in ten min. I'm quite intrigued by this match up. I initially wrote it off as an easy win for Spain but maybe this could be Spain's first real test. Here's hoping for a great match. I still think Spain will put a lot of pressure on Barthez, who might make a...

Well, many non-Brazilians are probably writing about how 'badly' Brazil played today. It'll keep going right up to Brazil holding the trophy. Interesting to see that Brazil got booed a lot by the crowd. I think it's in part because Ghana had become a particular underdog fan-favorite.