WORLD CUP FINAL!! Germany v Argentina 8pm Sunday 13th

AllGunsBlazing

Imagine how happy the Kramer lad will be once he comes around.

Zeek12

Sad to see Bill go. The presenter's chair will look very empty from now on...and the replacements don't look very good.

If we're stuck with Darragh Maloney or Peter Collins then I'm off to ITV:pac:

_Kaiser_

murpho999 wrote: »

World cup over.

Bored already.

A women just walk in there took me a while to recognise her but it was actually my wife.

Post of the tournament contender right there! :P

Tombo2001

jonneymendoza wrote: »

i am now unhappy and sad that the World cup has ended.

What a brilliant tournament and probably the best World cup i have seen in my life so far.

How old are you?


Its probably the best of the last three in my opinion....but the world cup seems to have a problem in that the knock out stages are too predictable and dull.

To my mind, I really cant think of a single upset in the round of 16, quarterfinals, semi finals or finals, or indeed the 3rd/4th play off. That is not good.

The only arguable upset across those 16 matches was Argentina beating Holland in the semi, but that's because Van Persie was injured rather than Argentina playing well imho.

I would rate the '98 and '02 tournaments ahead of this.

Lapin

Meanwhile in other news -

North Korea 17 - Portugal 0.

Full Time

keith16

efb wrote: »

Are they showing alf now???

You are Alf.

AllGunsBlazing

Tombo2001 wrote: »

I would rate the '98 and '02 tournaments ahead of this.

France 98 wins on overall quality. The 1/4 finals stages of this one were nothing to write home about.

thecretinhop

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will join up soon, great World Cup, sad panda seeing bill leave, love Alf, must post before I turn into a gremlin at midnight!

Alf quote "now the people in PETA don't like it when I say I like to eat cats, but I gotta be honest here! I LOVE cats on PITTA!

Auf wiedersehen

JP Liz V1

Delighted Germany won, #wunderbar

efb

keith16 wrote: »

You are Alf.

cool

Mr.Micro

It's sad that there had to be a losing side tonight. Well done to Germany, and hard luck Argentina. I just knew if would be a 1 goal final. After the thrashing that Germany gave the dire Brasil team, it was on the cards for Germany to win.

Tombo2001

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

Talib Fiasco

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

If Marco Reus, arguably Germany's best player was there and did his stuff I think I'd agree to an extent...he was badly missed at times during the tournament. But Spain 2010 were incredible, Germany are still a team in development, kinda like Spain '08

roanoke

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

Certainly Germany were better to watch imho, but they probably don't have that same 'aura' of dominance about them that Spain did. Up until the wheels started falling off the tiki-taka machine it almost felt like Spain just had to turn up to win.

Pyjamarama

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

Not in the same league. That Spanish team was special, this German team is just a very good team.

Stinicker

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

That Spanish team were boring and totally unworthy in my eyes, Argentina tonight were the same totally defensive and not attack minded. I'm glad to see Argentina beaten because of this negative block em out and wait for a change approach when they should have swarmed up and attacked like mad until they produced something. To be honest its the Dutch I feel sorry for as they should have won in 2010 and again this year.

AllGunsBlazing

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

Spain controlled that match quite a bit more than the Germans did tonight.


And if the Argentinians had taken at least one of those gilt edged chances......

Harry Angstrom

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Anyone else think this German team is just as good as the Spain team that won 4 years ago?

Nope.

Boskowski

World Champions!!!

AllGunsBlazing

Stinicker wrote: »

To be honest its the Dutch I feel sorry for as they should have won in 2010 and again this year.

Huh?

Tombo2001

Pyjamarama wrote: »

Not in the same league. That Spanish team was special, this German team is just a very good team.

Holland could easily have won the last final with an inferior team to what they had this time round.

Spain won the final in extra time 1-0, they won the semi-final, quarter final and 1/16 games all by 1-0.....and they only scored in the last five minutes in the quarter final against Paraguay, and in the final against Holland.

They only won one game by more than a single goal in the entire tournament.

In contrast, in this world cup, Germany hammered Portugal, they hammered Brazil, they beat strong Argentine and French teams.....

Tombo2001

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Spain controlled that match quite a bit more than the Germans did tonight.


And if the Argentinians had taken at least one of those gilt edged chances......

Robben had incredible chance to score in extra time that would have given Holland the lead....

Wurzelbert

murpho999 wrote: »

You do realise that no German would ever say that?

some would, and why not…that anthem and its lyrics were written in the 19th century…

efb

Ozil, World Cup Winner 2014

AllGunsBlazing

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Robben had incredible chance to score in extra time that would have given Holland the lead....

And Argentina had three of their own tonight. Also the small matter of winning two European crowns either side of that World Cup.

Pyjamarama

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Holland could easily have won the last final with an inferior team to what they had this time round.

Spain won the final in extra time 1-0, they won the semi-final, quarter final and 1/16 games all by 1-0.....and they only scored in the last five minutes in the quarter final against Paraguay, and in the final against Holland.

They only won one game by more than a single goal in the entire tournament.

In contrast, in this world cup, Germany hammered Portugal, they hammered Brazil, they beat strong Argentine and French teams.....

That Spanish team was revolutionary and while those games were 1-0 wins in general they were exceptionally comfortable 1-0 wins. This Is a good team but they're not special like the Spanish were IMO.

murpho999

Definite Caption Competion potential here.

DebDynamite

Tombo2001 wrote: »

How old are you?


Its probably the best of the last three in my opinion....but the world cup seems to have a problem in that the knock out stages are too predictable and dull.

To my mind, I really cant think of a single upset in the round of 16, quarterfinals, semi finals or finals, or indeed the 3rd/4th play off. That is not good.

The only arguable upset across those 16 matches was Argentina beating Holland in the semi, but that's because Van Persie was injured rather than Argentina playing well imho.

I would rate the '98 and '02 tournaments ahead of this.

What also made it a great WC (for me anyway) was that all the games were on in the evening so I didn't have to miss much (bar the first 30 mins or so of the 5pm kick-off or struggling to stay awake for the late game )

RobertKK

Hope Christoph Kramer is ok.
https://twitter.com/chronicleherald/status/488453272970465280/photo/1

Marco Reus is so unfortunate, sure he is delighted while being disappointed he missed out.

Three world cups in a row for EU countries, first time ever one continent has won three in a row.

Congrats to Germany.

Wurzelbert

Skid X wrote: »

Hard to believe its 24 years since (West) Germany won it last.

It's always hard to follow up a goalfest with another good performance, but I think they will have the edge tonight. They've played consistently well this year. Germany to win their first title, 3-1.

are you trying to provoke germans around here or are you just plain ignorant? you really need to come off that “west” nonsense. you realise that east germany joined the west in 90, right? it’s not a different nation now, not even a different state. also, it is the dfb (not the state) that won all four german world cups and three european titles.

namloc1980

murpho999 wrote: »

Definite Caption Competion potential here.

Schweiny with a beer in one hand and the World Cup trophy in the other. Legend!!

namloc1980

RobertKK wrote: »

Hope Christoph Kramer is ok.
https://twitter.com/chronicleherald/status/488453272970465280/photo/1

Marco Reus is so unfortunate, sure he is delighted while being disappointed he missed out.

Three world cups in a row for EU countries, first time ever one continent has won three in a row.

Congrats to Germany.

And 5 of the last 6 finalists have been European.

murpho999

Wurzelbert wrote: »

some would, and why not…that anthem and its lyrics were written in the 19th century…

They only sing the 3rd verse now and it is definitely associated with the Nazis.

RobertKK

The good thing about Angela Merkel is she attends as many German games as possible, so she isn't like some politicians who turns up for the big games only.

BMJD

murpho999 wrote: »

Definite Caption Competion potential here.

bukkake tsunami

Wurzelbert

murpho999 wrote: »

They only sing the 3rd verse now and it is definitely associated with the Nazis.

it has been “associated with the nazis” by post-war brainwash, nothing else…but you are right, the official anthem is the 3rd verse only…

murpho999

Wurzelbert

murpho999 wrote: »

nice

efb

Platini asks Özil for his jersey

Sandraevra

Well done Germany, but Ozil was much most of the tournament.

F1ngers

Sandraevra wrote: »

Well done Germany, but Ozil was much most of the tournament.

Much most what?

efb

F1ngers wrote: »

Much most what?

much improved

Liam O

I'm of the opinion that Messi and Ronaldo are the best of all time already but he was poor when it mattered this WC by his standards and think he's slowed down a lot the last 2 years. I'm happy Argentina didn't win the WC, people saying every team they played were out to stop them, they scored 1 regular time goal in the KO stages and that was in the latter stages. Disgraceful imo.

HazDanz

Between the world cup ending and Bill gone it's fcuking depressing.

The_Kew_Tour

a fantastic day.

well done Germany.

Sandraevra

F1ngers wrote: »

Much most what?

efb wrote: »

much improved

Ozil was rubbish most of the world cup.

A few flicks here and there don't count for sh7te.

Ok, he's a world cup winner.

But he was rubbish throught the world cup.

brianregan09

So what in fact made him rubbish , you know now that you've made that sweeping statement you might aswell back it up ?

efb

Sandraevra wrote: »

Ozil was rubbish most of the world cup.

A few flicks here and there don't count for sh7te.

Ok, he's a world cup winner.

But he was rubbish throught the world cup.

Löw knows something you clearly don't.

efb

https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088/status/488473757640830976

Sandraevra

F1ngers wrote: »

Much most what?

Much most Rubbish of a great Germany team.