Football World Cup 2010

[Niamh]

I knew i should have gone with my instinct on Ghana winning! Ah well! tomorrow is another day!
And seeing as i'm in work for 4am...
Here are my bets for the first two matchs tomorrow... (still mulling over the final match)

Holland (Netherlands) 20
Cameroon 5

[MarkBastable]

20 faulkners on the Netherlands.

[Paulclem]

For tomorrow:

10 Rowlings on the Nederlands
5 Rowlings on Cameroon
10 Rowlings on Italy.

[wessexgirl]

That was dreadful - Slovenia do look organised and hard to break down however....

I don't know what's going on with the betting on this thread, I haven't really taken much notice, but I have Slovenia in the sweepstake at work........Wooohoooo I thought they were rubbish, but they could be the winners of the group.

[billl]

I'm going all in again, predicting a dramatic and convincing draw between Cameroon and Japan.

[Virgil]

Are you a footie convert Virgil or did you always like it?

No, no. I like football (soccer as we call it) but I really only follow the World Cup. There's so much sports in the US that I get overwhelmed as it is.

Hey I had a great day yesterday: three for three correct!!

[prendrelemick]

10 doshes on Italy.


I hate this cautious approach, but needs must while I recoup my disasterous losses.

[Virgil]

Ok, in case I'm not back later I better put in my bets now. In honor of Italy playing we shall have to go ith the dante as the currency.

Nederlands ~ 10 dantes to win

Cameroon ~ 5 dantes to win

Italy ~ 10 dantes to win

[Lulim]

That's been a remarkable match yesterday, and I won my Eliots back

Today:

Netherlands vs Denmark -- Draw, 5 Gaskells

Japan vs Cameroon -- Cameroon, 5 Gaskells

Italy vs Paraguay -- Italy, 5 Gaskells

[kilted exile]

I have been over-cautious when I am sure of a good result, not today:

60 on Holland
15 on a cameroon/japan draw
60 on Italy

[Jesterhead]

I am predicting a danish victory.

Denmark win - 50 crowns

Cameroon win - 10 crowns

Italy win - 10 crowns

[TurquoiseSunset]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...10/8737455.stm

Oh, let's hope so, FIFA was aware of this before and could/should have banned them from the start. One of their reasons for not doing so was the claim that the vuvuzelas things are "part of the African heritage" apparently, what mass produced plastic trumpets?

I was hoping they would ban them from the start as well...they are just way too loud and distracting (sounds like a hive of angry bees to me). Worst of all they can actually harm your hearing. In my opinion vuvuzelas completely ruin the atmosphere too.

As for it being African heritage, well, that's bull. As far as I know it only became popular in the nineties or there abouts. So the vuvuzela is not to African heritage what curries are to Indian heritage for example...honestly... I watched a rugby game (on t.v.), held at one of the new stadiums right before the world cup started, and it was horrible. I felt sorry for the players, and you could hardly hear the commentators. The ref wanted to talk to the t.v. ref about a try, but he couldn't hear a thing over the noise. So I hope they ban it...and I don't feel like a traitor for saying it either

So...
Netherlands win - 10 muntstukke
Cameroon win - 5 muntstukke
Italy win - 5 muntstukke

[Scheherazade]

ATM:

Bill: Out!

Jester: 100

Kilted: 135

Lulim: 110

Mark: 98

Neely: 91

Niamh: 110

Papaya: 25

Paul : 103

Pren: 37

Scher: 140

Turquoise: 75

Virgil: 119


Netherlands vs Denmark

Neely: Netherlands (7)

Niamh: Netherlands (20)

Mark: Netherlands (20)

Paul: Netherlands (10)

Virgil: Netherlands (10)

Lulim: Draw (5)

Kilted: Netherlands (60)

Jester: Denmark (50)

Turquoise: Netherlands (10)

Scher: Draw (5)


Draw is a wishful thinking more than anything else, I guess, by the look of the bets but I am not sure if write Denmark off so easily either.

AND can't even watch the match!

Wessex> You can join us if you like. It is explained in the very post of this thread

[papayahed]

Denmark win - 8 tennies

Cameroon draw - 10 tennies

Italy win - 7 crowns

[TurquoiseSunset]

Netherlands win 2-0!!!!!