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2006 World Cup

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England's World Cup players have wound up their blogs (diary's) on the forum, so check out Rio's "mercks" on Beck's, Steve McClaren's plans for winning the next World Cup, plus the news from Beck's, Theo and others... but a word of advice, make sure you read all of the classic Owen Hargreaves World Cup diary... he certainly had a
story to tell.
 

Thanks to those who contributed, you
can see them in The Vault on the forum

Sam Wins the World Cup Trophy

It went to the wire as Sam and Matt battled for the title. Gary and Dom, who had also been in contention going into the final weekend, slipped back as they couldn't cope with the superb scoring of Sam and Matt. Sam's winning margin of just 3 points can be put down to a number of factors... he was the only person to predict a modest 2 goal tally from Gerrard and Lampard, plus he was also spot on with zero Rooney goals. He also picked two of the four semi finalists, whereas Matt only managed one.

Key to everything though were the final two matches, as they both had a 1-1 score line at 90 minutes in the final, however Sam went for France to go on and win, while Matt gained ground by picking Italy. Sam more than made those 3 points up though in Saturdays 3rd/4th place match, as despite Matt going for a Germany win, he only had 2-1, but Sam got maximum points with a 3-1 prediction.

Elsewhere in the final hustling, Elliott jumped from 9th to 6th, thanks largely to a 1-1 prediction in the final, while Cossie jumped from 13th to 8th. His gain was due to the maximum 12 points in the final and a Germany win in the 3rd/4th match, plus he was the only one of us to predict Klose would win the golden boot!

You can see a few individual match comments, plus comments on the extra 'other' points if you scroll to the bottom of the page

Well... that's the end of the competition. England were not good enough, Brazil and Argentina surprised us all by not even making
the semi's, while the teams that started slowly went on to do a
lot better that expected. As for the individual players, I'd love to
see Torres, Klose and Maxi Rodriguez in the Premiership...
but the sooner Ronaldo departs the better!!
 

 
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Here are a few comments from the last two World Cup matches:

Germany  3 - 1  Divers
Germany finished their tournament with a convincing win over the divers from Portugal. Pretty much all of us went for the hosts to win this one, however Sam was the only person to get it spot on, for a 12 point total.

Italy  1 - 1  France (Italy win on pens)
Sam and Matt weren't the only ones to predict 1-1, as Cossie and Elliott also had the 1-1 score. Cossie also went for Italy to eventually triumph.

'Others'
Most of us had the usual suspect down for the Golden Boot... Ronaldo (the Brazilian, not the diver), Henry, Adriano, Ronaldinho etc... but Cossie was the only person to get Klose, and earned 5 points for it. Of our 4 semi finalists, and how they would do, James Beedle and Ross predicted France would lose in the final, and given that they made these predictions over a month ago, that was pretty good going.

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