he was injured
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Those Spanish players were all about the collective, they never really had a brilliant individual player, it was all about very similar players who bought into the style and effectively carried it out. Iniesta was definitely the most special of those teams. Torres for me was next when he was at his best but that was a fairly short period of 3-4 seasons.
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Seemingly Crespo speaks about 20 words of English and is on a US network.
@ChocolateMice
Will we see you in dubrovnik Thursday for the game against the argies?
He’s in Zadar
#stillbetterthanmessi
That guy’s World Cup poem on RTE’s coverage tonight prompted me to think back on past World Cups. I’ve very fond memories of my great pal Guy Easterby adroitly diffusing tensions in The 51 in 2006. A crowd of his English chums took grave offence to the wild celebrations when Portugal defeated England in the quarter final shoot-out and things were threatening to get propah nawty.
The beeb are heavin’ with wimmin commentators and pundits. They can’t shoehorn enough of them in there. It doesn’t seem right somehow
PC gone mad .
Lovely. The game of the day, Ger v Mex, kicks off just after the GAA action ends.
These are great, great days.
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@Fitzy, these figures can’t be correct??.Is Rubby not huge over? Are Australian not one of the best in the world? cc @GeoffreyBoycott @gilgamboa
+1. Can’t be right. Is rugby really twice as popular as cricket over there?
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No ones gives a fuck about the Wallabies any more as they can’t win anything.
Everyone hates the cricketers as they’re cheating fuckers.
Australia is embracing the beautiful game. More and more people calling it football. Les Murray has been vindicated.
Considering a third of those watching the rugby were probably Irish, those are shocking figures. What’s the population of Australia?
24.5 million
I have a feeling those figures Squires posts from the ABC may be Sydney metro only, as I believe over 3.5 million people watched the game in Australia last night.
Click into the replies to Squires’ tweet. There was another few million watching the football.
The Australia soccer team are really winning a lot. Odds on now to exit the World Cup in the group stages for the third successive tournament and languishing at 36 in the FIFA rankings. For a dominion that prides itself on its sporting prowess, Australia really are shit at soccer.
The Wallabies were in the Rugby World Cup final in 2015 and won the Rugby Championship as recently as 2015.