World Cup Opinions

gimmick

Well, was it a good World Cup in your opinion? For my money it was great, with plenty great goals, and good attacking games. We even saw a few entertaining stalemates.

Best matches (in no particular order)
Mexico Vs Iran
Argentina Vs Ivory Coast
Argentina Vs Serbia
France Brazil
Italy Ghana
Germany Vs Italy
Spain Vs France
Germany Vs Costa Rica

Best goals:
Cambiasso Vs Serbia.
Messi Vs Serbia
Maxi Rodriguez Vs Mexico
Henry Vs Brazil
Grosso Vs Germany

The Good:
Argentinas attitude to the game. Great footballing side.
The South American referees. Miles ahead of their european counterparts
Fabio Cannavaro
Gnearro Gattusso
Tevez
The Stadia.

The dissapointing:
T Henry is a diving cheat.
Ronaldinho not living up to expectation.
Spains ineptiude.
Argentina literally losing the plot, and eliminate themselves from the World Cup.
Zidanes end last night. A great player whose entire career we all saw, ending in such a stupid manner.

The horrible:
England. Everything about them sucked. Rooney, Sven, Lampard. They were involved in 5 awful games, and went further than they deserved.
Holland. Overhyped and over rated. Cynical fouling, and the usual infighting cost them dear.
The fact it is over. What do we do know? What do we watch on the telly, and talk about at work tomorrow?

PHB

It was a bit of a crap world cup imo, glad to see club football again, highlights the problems with the modern game.

For me this WC proved two things, Ronaldinho isn't as good as the greats, while Zidane is without a doubt a great.

AnCapaillMor

Better than 90 and 02. Was'nt too bad and it was on at a decent hour which was a bonus.

Pigman II

I thought it was a good world cup. A lot of people seem to think it dipped after the group stages but that's always the way. The players are more tired , the stakes higher and the opposition is tougher so you're never gonna much beyond scrappy encounters.

Best match was Germany v Italy.

Best goal was Cambiasso v Serbia

Fanny Cradock

this WC highlighted the cancer in the modern game, i.e. cheating. i'm sick of seeing guys fall on the ground clutching various parts of their body in AGONY only to hop up again moments later and "run off" the pain.

it was amusing when klinsman did it, but now it's just tired and detracts from the game.

poor tournament that VERY few new stars emerged from. the final was indictive of the the tournament - one or two good games, but on the whole it was poor.

the most exciting part of the final were the penos! sick of people moaning about them. they're great! generally speaking, it's about the most action pact 10 or so mins in a game.

Attractive Nun

I thought it was a very good World Cup, obviously with disappointments, but I think its flaws have been overemphasised.

Best matches (in no particular order)
Italy Vs Germany
Brazil Vs France
Argentina Vs Ivory Coast
Argentina Vs Serbia & Montenegro
Argentina Vs Mexico
Croatia Vs Australia

Best goals:
Cambiasso Vs Serbia. That is all.

The Good:
The Germans' hosting ability
The Germans' attitude to the tournament
The defending
The general success of attacking football (Italy, France, Portugal and Germany semi-finalists)
The goals
The obvious fact that this tournament still means a lot to footballers
Cannavaro - no man deserved that trophy more

The dissapointing:
Brazil not really turning up
Certain big name players not living up to reputation (Ronaldinho, Rooney etc) and others just being terrible (Lampard)
Zidane's end
Argentina's end
Injuries denying big players total match fitness (Messi, Rooney, Totti etc)

The horrible:
The diving, and the overreaction to it in the media
The relative success of some defensive teams (SWITZERLAND)
The standard of refereeing, although 'horrible' is a bit strong

vorbis

have to say I preferred 2002. The knockout stages were just so defensive. There were no great comebacks, chances were at a minimum. So many games finished one - nil or went to penalties. There very also very few shocks. France - Brazil was the biggest.

Ruu_Old

I liked this one actually or maybe its because I havent seen decent footie in sometime. I'll have to get upgrade my cable to get the premiership games.

Running Bing

Not a great exhibiton of football imo. Group stages where great cause of the goals, quality of games and the buzz of the world cup but that all faded in the knockouts (which was to be expected, but most of the games were really bad).

Best thing about it: Argentina in the group stages. The way it should be.

Worst thing about world cup: Diving and dirty play, Ronaldo (probably both now that I think of it), big players underperforming(esp. ronaldhino), lack of goals in the knockout stages.

Star of the world cup: That american fan in the stars and stripes bikini with the big jabs.

Unearthly

It was rather crap. I always believe that the knockout stages is where the the overall opinion will come from. Think back to 98 and the matches you think of were all in the knockout rounds.

Very disapointed with the knockouts, 1 or 2 good games, but not end to end battles. Goals are great but they don't define a great game to watch. Quality of football is more important.Unfortunately the knockouts lacked both.

Still better than that awful 2002 competition.