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Luke888 on 13 June 2016
NiKKoM said:

lol... Blatter confirms hot and cold balls theory

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ex-fifa-president-sepp-blatter-8184465

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has sensationally claimed he witnessed a draw for a European competition being rigged.

The 80-year-old refused to say which tournament it was, but revealed the balls containing the names of teams were either heated or cooled to help identify them.

In the interview with Argentine publication La Nacion, Blatter also claimed only one team had ever successfully benefited from such "cheating".

When asked whether draws had ever been rigged, he replied: "Yes. I saw it with my own eyes and it was like cheating.

Lmao, let's just hope my father never learns about this or he's gona go on Illuminati mode, he's a HUGE Milan fan and he always goes around complaining about how the Champions League  is rigged since whenever Milan makes it for the Champions they play against Barcellona XD



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Scisca on 13 June 2016
vivster said:
Slimebeast said:

What? The tournament has been amazing so far with beautiful, creative, offensive football. Italy, Poland, Croatia, Germany, England, Belgium, Ireland, all have impressed with entertaining football, and to some extent Spain and France.

Just kicking against the ball and having good individual moments isn't good football. You have to be strong as a team and back each other up. That's why Belgium failed so miserably and why France barely won.

Italy and Germany had the best team performance so far in terms of tactic and confidence in play.

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vivster on 13 June 2016
Scisca said:
vivster said:

Just kicking against the ball and having good individual moments isn't good football. You have to be strong as a team and back each other up. That's why Belgium failed so miserably and why France barely won.

Italy and Germany had the best team performance so far in terms of tactic and confidence in play.

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Send it to Mustafi. He's the one responsible for making sure you kick the ball into the goal this time.



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Scisca on 13 June 2016
vivster said:
Scisca said:

Aren't you forgetting about someone? Oh, doesn't matter. We're gonna send you a memo on Thursday

Send it to Mustafi. He's the one responsible for making sure you kick the ball into the goal this time.

Our media predicts that Hummels will replace him



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vivster on 13 June 2016
Scisca said:
vivster said:

Send it to Mustafi. He's the one responsible for making sure you kick the ball into the goal this time.

Our media predicts that Hummels will replace him

So I guess that's death for Poland then.

Gonna beat them so bad that we'll call ourselves Prussia again.



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Slarvax on 13 June 2016
RolStoppable said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Didn't he even think England would win it? So yeah... that's pretty fitting

Nah, he went with France in order to not look too biased. He has England in the final though.

I also have England in the final, but I wanted to go with a crazily shocking surprise.

Tomorrow is finally the day that I will watch a game of the Austrian football team again. I think the last match I watched of them was in Germany; it was a qualifying game and they lost 6-2 or so. That was years ago. Anyway, I am quite sure that Hungary is the team that Austria has the most wins against in its history. That bodes well.

Do you think Austria can make it to the knockout stage?



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Slarvax on 13 June 2016

Who would have thought Venezuela - Mexico was gonna be such a great game?



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Mike321 on 13 June 2016
Slarvax said:
Who would have thought Venezuela - Mexico was gonna be such a great game?

 

It was surprisingly fun, and Mexico avoids Argentina which is good, Chile is going to be a piece of cake 



                                                                                     

S.Peelman on 14 June 2016

So only two matches today.

I see I put in Austria-Hungary 0-0 and Portugal-Iceland 3-1 in the spreadsheet. I probably will have been too optimistic about that second match again like usual, but we'll see.

Austria-Hungary... Somehow this match-up makes me want to read some history articles...



The Fury on 14 June 2016
S.Peelman said:
So only two matches today.

I see I put in Austria-Hungary 0-0 and Portugal-Iceland 3-1 in the spreadsheet. I probably will have been too optimistic about that second match again like usual, but we'll see.

Austria-Hungary... Somehow this match-up makes me want to read some history articles...

Me and my workmate did that too. The Austro-Hungarian Empire formed in 1867, you know, and ended at the end of WWI.

 

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