The Live In Running World Cup Thread for After Hours.

DarkJager

My name is URL wrote: »

Why do North Korea allow a team to take part in intrenational sporting events and then ban anyone from watching it on TV?

North Korea will be interesting to watch if only for the fact they made a **** up with the team selection and have one of their strikers as the goalkeeper

Neberkenezer

the 1-0 lead is a dangerous one,even though argentina are the better team,you just never know... could get done by a set piece

My name is URL

Doesn't sound as if there's as many duck-hunters at this match.. maybe I'm just getting used to the sound =/

DarkJager wrote: »

North Korea will be interesting to watch if only for the fact they made a **** up with the team selection and have one of their strikers as the goalkeeper

lmao, probably on purpose so as they don't get the world's attention

dr.bollocko

My name is URL wrote: »

Doesn't sound as if there's as many duck-hunters at this match.. maybe I'm just getting used to the sound =/

Its still there. Its so annoying.

Jaxxy

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Its still there. Its so annoying.

I'm hoping it won't be as bad for the England match, apparently there are a high percentage of English and American fans in SA, which will hopefully mean less South Africans in the stadium. Hopefully.

Mint Sauce

that fella in orange is pretty usless, dont think he has touched the ball yet

and whats steven hawkins doing there

Mint Sauce

com, on, you, boys in green

Mint Sauce

Whats that whistling sound, never heard that at any of the matches before

tolosenc

Hope this is Kosher here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7719050/Chinese-actors-to-cheer-for-North-Korea-during-World-Cup.html

The Telegraph wrote:

Chinese actors to cheer for North Korea during World Cup

Chinese actors and musicians are going to the World Cup to cheer for North Korea, after China itself failed to qualify for the tournament.



By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 12:36PM BST 13 May 2010


The North Korean team has qualified for the World Cup for only the second time, and is hoping to replicate the surprise it sprang on the 1966 tournament in England when its team knocked out Italy and reached the quarter finals.

This time, however, the North Koreans have been drawn into a ‘group of death’ alongside Brazil, Portugal and the Ivory Coast, and the country’s leaders have appealed for support.

Since virtually no one in North Korea can afford to travel to South Africa, or obtain a visa, the Beijing office of the North Korean Sports Committee has begun to give out tickets to Chinese fans.
So far, a group of around 1,000 Chinese fans, including a group of actors and musicians who have been sent to cheer China in previous World Cup tournaments, will attend the games against Brazil and Portugal to cheer on their North Korean cousins, according to Xinhua, the government-run news agency.
“It is very possible that China will support North Korea in the World Cup,” said Nick Bonner, whose company, Koryo, produced a documentary about the exploits of the 1966 North Korean team and has just released a North Korean football film called Centre Forward. “As Mao Tsetung once said: ‘The Chinese and the North Korean are as close as lips and teeth’,” he added.
The North Korean team, which was hugely defensive in its qualification campaign, has already departed for its training camp in Switzerland.
The star of the team is likely to be Hong Yong-jo, a striker who plays for FC Rostow in the Russian Premier League.
Pundits have said the team is likely to defend stolidly and hope to catch teams on the break.
“They train like a military troop. As a result, their stamina is probably the best in the world,” said Taewoon Park, “I’ve just got back from Pyongyang a couple of days ago and the North Koreans I spoke to were acutely aware that they have been picked into a difficult group,” said Mr Bonner.
“But as one North Korean friend told me, they have a saying there: ‘Over the mountains, there are mountains’.”

Absurdum

do you people ever stop talking about the cricket world cup on here :rolleyes:

Bobeagleburger

Absurdum wrote: »

do you people ever stop talking about the cricket world cup on here :rolleyes:

You didn't have to reply you know

stovelid

Probability of All Look The Same Anyway comment: high.

orourkeda

go on the north korea

Coriolanus

I'm hoping they get to the finals and end up vs South Korea.

ScumLord

Are they still hiring?

If NK allowed their supporters to follow the team to SA, few, if any, would return home!

SeaFields

Did ye see one of the NK players at national anthem? He was in hysterics crying. I dont know was it the same guy who challenged his citizenship - changing from his south (as his parents wished) to north korea so he could play soccer for them

Personally after they're decent display tonight I have finally found a team worth following in this otherwise sh!te tournament.

My name is URL

Was a good game. They certainly done themselves proud, even though Brazil were pretty crap

footy talk :eek:

Ulysses Gaze

SeaFields wrote: »

Personally after they're decent display tonight I have finally found a team worth following in this otherwise sh!te tournament.

You'll be joining the guy from Portsmouth who is following NK down in South Africa and who dreams of seeing them play in Pyongyang. He watched them play the Saudi's in Riyadh and was their only supporter there!

Posy

Deleted User wrote: »

footy talk :eek:

SMITE THEM!! :eek:

bonerm

Is it too late to jump on the N.Korea bandwagon? After tonight me rikey.

jester77

bonerm wrote: »

Is it too late to jump on the N.Korea bandwagon? After tonight me rikey.

If you jump on, you'll never be able to jump off or they'll shoot you

Royal Irish

I have been supporting North Korea for a few weeks leading up to the world cup. I even managed to convince a few people of their potential.

If North Korea get out of their group I will win 1250euro, if the reach the final and are beaten I will win 11,250euro. If they win the whole thing, I'll win 41,250euro. I'll be happy if they just get out of their group.

Come on North Korea !!

gurramok

I was wondering where that bunch of NK supporters came from when seen on the tv pictures from the stadium.

They couldn't all have been govt secret agents!

starbelgrade

“But as one North Korean friend told me, they have a saying there: ‘Over the mountains, there are mountains’.”

And we have a saying here.. "Stop talking sh*te, ye bleedin' bollix"

Genrikh Yagoda

I think this says it all

HavingCrack

Reckon any of the team will try and desert when the tounaments over

Capt'n Midnight

how will they hear the cheers over the noise of those vuvuvaluzuases ?

Royal Irish

HavingCrack wrote: »

Reckon any of the team will try and desert when the tounaments over

It took the immigration officers in Australia 3 years to round em up after the Sydney Olympics. But most of these guys play their football in the J league and in Europe.