Germans won me a fiver today, thankyou very much!

Scotland, Ireland and Wales all losing is quite pleasing. Montenegro beating everyone in front of them is making me a bit more worried for Tuesday night though!

Romero,he pretty much spilled every long ranged shot,which is how the goal came about.

Cyprus 1-2 Norway. So, that's 9 points from 3 games, a good 4 points ahead of Portugal and Denmark... this pleases me.

Brilliant, Locke! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/king.gif) Job well done. I've had it with Denmark, they seldom play to their potential after qualifying (at least from what I've seen). It'll be great if Portugal and Norway made the cut.

Did you just say it'd be great if Portugal made the cut? WHAT!?

Denmark and Norway I hope.

I'm actually not too bothered if Portugal does indeed make it, they usually bottle at the first challenge anyway.
Denmark however, have been a bunch of arrogant little twerps since their 1992 EURO victory, and it would be wonderful to rub their faces into this (should everything go according to plan that is, and knowing us, the chances of that are dubious to put it mildly.

Well Portugal are comparatively a big side when it comes to Euros, so I want them in for the sake of the competition. For the sake of England, though, I hope these two don't meet in a match. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Secondly, the only time I saw Denmark perform was (if my memory serves me right) USA 94. I think it were them and Saudi Arabia that went through to the quarters. Other than that, they have always performed below potential, even though they had a few good players here and there, Thomasson (JDT) including.

Plus as Locke said, their attitude is a totally arrogant when they do qualify. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Let Norway come forward on the world stage and show what they are made of. And not just that, they have been performing quite well as a team. If Denmark makes through instead of them, I won't be a happy man.

Denmark were pretty good at th 98 and 2002 WCs I thought.

Decent and lucky, I can agree with, but the only good run that I saw from them was USA '94. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I just think they got lucky groups both time after that, and failed to qualify after that. In the 98 world cup they barely qualified with four points (Saudi Arabia and South Africa were in their group). In 2002, again they had a crap team in France (who did not win a match and got out without scoring a goal, that's rich), Uruguay who were just wandering about and Senegal. To top it off they got cleaned inside out 3-0 against England at the first hurdle of the knockout stages.

In these four world cups they should have at least improved on their quarterfinal run (though admittedly they had to face a very hot Brazil in 98 quarters). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) My opinion of course, but with them playing in Europe, having a good league system, and facilities, they should have been at least at the level of the likes of USA (current) South Korea, Ukraine, Turkey, etc. Consistent. They are just one notch below that, I feel (and occasionally very lucky), though they had a few good players over the ages.

Like I said, it would be great if they improve and showcase themselves on world stage again, but I've seen a couple of matches of both Denmark and Norway, and if I had to choose between them, it'll be the later. Even if it is for the Euros and not the World Cup. Maybe we'll see something different. Just like Serbia stunned Germany this June.

This post has been edited by acid911: Oct 9 2010, 04:19 AM

According to ESPN Soccernet, the U.S.' Charlie Davies was caught speeding over 125 miles (that's miles, folks) an hour in France last weekend.

Link

Jesus. And don't forget that he almost died in a car accident last year. I guess he didn't quite get the message.

I wouldn't worry about it Kurt. You see, Montenegro is just like Croatia but a bit weaker. And my experience tells me that no mather how good such teams are, they always find it hard to play or beat England. McLaren era asside, when did your team last lost to Yugoslavia, Serbia, Croatia?


Gee, we totally disagree then. Denmark in 98' had it in it, they had so much talent and they did show it. Brazil won with much luck. And 2002 Denmark performed also very good, they advanced from a very difficult group and got knocked out by England. From all the Scandinavic teams, Denmark show the best football in 98'.

A few talents? What about the Laudrups, Schmeichel, Helveg, Laursen,...

Ironic thing is, Denmark were eliminated by Brazil in '98, a team we actually beat in the group stages (to this day I'm pretty sure we are the only NT not to have ever lost a match against Brazil), but we were then eliminated by an Italy side that used essentially the same tactics as us.

With the one, small exception that they had Vieri as their target player, while we had Tore Andre Flo... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Well, Flo wasn't that bad after all. I don't think Norway nowdays would mind a striker his caliber.

Sigh.

I don't know, maybe it's me then, but I watched them keenly both in 98 and 2002, and the bunch never seemed to give me the same feeling as watching other smaller teams (out of the European giants) like Croatia, Czech Republic, Ukraine (whom I followed very closely in qualifying and the finals of 06). That they have been the standout Scandinavian team, I can't doubt one bit, but I never thought they did justice to their talents after 94', sort of like another version of Portugal at competitions.

I remember seeing the 2002 World Cup groups, and saying to myself, no way the Danes are gonna get out from here. They drew against Senegal and if I recall correctly, France and Uruguay drew too later that day. Granted they won (and deservedly) against a disjointed French side. That group was strong, but only on paper. The performances the French team gave opened up the group wide for the other three sides.

And oh, I was being conservative when saying they had talent, they had some very good players. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) And internationally renowned. And personally I was surprised to see them not making the cuts for the last two World Cups, and Turkey was another that had me shocked when they missed the boat this year. But like I said above, maybe it's just me. I started liking them after 94', I was quite a small kid then. Had them as my favorite B team from Europe, but ultimately that distinction then went to Croatia. Still is.