DE PLURIBUS

De pluribus - hmm, aş putea jura că în latineşte înseamnă "despre diverse chestii" ...

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De pluribus - errr - I think this means " 'bout stuff " in Latin ...
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vineri, 24 septembrie 2010

Some more football comments ...

A bunch of favorites -- that is, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, England, even Turkey and Sweden -- have maximum of points. Italy especially is obviously struggling to keep up the pace with the other superpowers, they can't forget so easily the shameful behavior in W.C.S.A. 2010 (I mean World Cup South Africa). Even so, they were almost beaten by the Estonians ... I'm eager to see their friendly match against Romania, which is another derailed team.

France is an unpredictable team. They lost home against Belarus but they have beaten away on Bosnia. The so-much-overrated Bosnia. (Bosnia looks now like the so-much-overrated Colombia in World Cup '94).

Other interesting facts:

1. Bulgaria lost away against England and home against Montenegro. Who is Montenegro anyway -- in football, of course?!?

2. World champion Spain has also maximum of points, however they played only one game.

3. Small teams are -- well, small. No one has done anything worth mentioning, except maybe Georgia (a draw in Greece), Belarus (win in France) and the afore=mentioned Montenegro which has also 6 points.

4. The next Eusopean's final tournament may have 24 teams. This is almost half of the 53 teams in UEFA organization. This is plainly stupid. I recall old times when the final tournament comprised only 8 teams out of 32.

duminică, 12 septembrie 2010

Some football comments ...

OK, let's see:

1. Liechtenstein was leading Scotland 1-0 after the first half. Now that's troublesome - either the Scots are really stupid, or the Lichts became more professional than ever (Frick and Stocklassa are well-known to anyone who has ever played against them: this includes Romanians, of course).

Anyway, Flower of Scotland (remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZdwLT2LSMk - the biggest a cappella choir in the world) has eventually overcome Ulrich von Liechtenstein of Gelderland (remember A Knight's Tale? - Heath Ledger amd one of his latest movies, not to mention that tournament's point-awarding system which was a delight for a football fan - 3 points for unhorsing or inadvertently killing the foe, 2 points for a CounterStrike-like headshot, 1 point for a chest hit, or something like that).

Steve McManus did that awful job in the last-minutes sequences. Yeah, awful - I would like to see the Lichts securing one well-deserved point.

2. Cyprus is crazy. They didn't care they were playing against the worst best-player in the world - I mean the guy formerly known as CR7, or was it CR9? - so they secured a 4-4 draw. Now, a 0-0 or even an 1-1 draw woudn't have been such a fuss. But 4-4? with Cyprus leading twice in the early stages of the game? and the same Cyprus levelling the score 1 minute before the final whistle?

Simply unbelievable.

And this was the first day (Friday).

The second day (Tuesday) Portugal was beaten fair and square by the Norwegians, which aren't by no means any kind of top-dogs here. So, I'm allowed to say Bye-bye Portugal! won't see you in the final tournament. And this is only fair, since they hammered those poor North-Korean bastards this summer in WC2010 - their unique and only exploit in South Africa, because whi cares about a tasteless 0-0 against Brazil? (who was Brazil anyway?)

To be continued in another post ...

joi, 9 septembrie 2010

Euro 2012 Qualifiers - Day 2


September 7
FTTurkey3 - 2Belgium
FTAustria2 - 0Kazakhstan
FTGermany6 - 1Azerbaijan
Euro 2012 - Group B (qualifiers)
September 7
FTRussia0 - 1Slovakia
FTRep. of Macedonia2 - 2Armenia
FTRep. of Ireland3 - 1Andorra
Euro 2012 - Group C (qualifiers)
September 7
FTSerbia1 - 1Slovenia
FTItaly5 - 0Faroe Islands
Euro 2012 - Group D (qualifiers)
September 7
FTBelarus0 - 0Romania
FTAlbania1 - 0Luxembourg
FTBosnia-Herzegovina0 - 2France
Euro 2012 - Group E (qualifiers)
September 7
FTSweden6 - 0San Marino
FTHolland2 - 1Finland
FTHungary2 - 1Moldova
Euro 2012 - Group F (qualifiers)
September 7
FTGeorgia0 - 0Israel
FTMalta0 - 2Latvia
FTCroatia0 - 0Greece
Euro 2012 - Group G (qualifiers)
September 7
FTBulgaria0 - 1Montenegro
FTSwitzerland1 - 3England
Euro 2012 - Group H (qualifiers)
September 7
FTDenmark1 - 0Iceland
FTNorway1 - 0Portugal
Euro 2012 - Group I (qualifiers)
September 7
FTCzech Republic0 - 1Lithuania
FTScotland2 - 1Liechtenstein

luni, 6 septembrie 2010

Euro 2012 - Day 1

Let's see what happened Friday in Europe's qualifying matches, and what's the schedule for tomorrow (results are from www.livescore.com, as you may have already understood). We shall see tomorrow's results - and comment them. So, without further ado:

FTKazakhstan0 - 3Turkey
FTBelgium0 - 1Germany
September 7
20:00Turkey? - ?Belgium
20:30Austria? - ?Kazakhstan
20:45Germany? - ?Azerbaijan
Euro 2012 - Group B (qualifiers)
September 3
FTArmenia0 - 1Rep. of Ireland
FTAndorra0 - 2Russia
FTSlovakia1 - 0Rep. of Macedonia
September 7
17:00Russia? - ?Slovakia
20:00Rep. of Macedonia? - ?Armenia
20:45Rep. of Ireland? - ?Andorra
Euro 2012 - Group C (qualifiers)
September 3
FTFaroe Islands0 - 3Serbia
FTEstonia1 - 2Italy
FTSlovenia0 - 1Northern Ireland
September 7
20:30Serbia? - ?Slovenia
20:50Italy? - ?Faroe Islands
Euro 2012 - Group D (qualifiers)
September 3
FTRomania1 - 1Albania
FTLuxembourg0 - 3Bosnia-Herzegovina
FTFrance0 - 1Belarus
September 7
19:30Belarus? - ?Romania
20:15Albania? - ?Luxembourg
21:00Bosnia-Herzegovina? - ?France
Euro 2012 - Group E (qualifiers)
September 3
FTMoldova2 - 0Finland
FTSweden2 - 0Hungary
FTSan Marino0 - 5Holland
September 7
20:00Sweden? - ?San Marino
20:30Holland? - ?Finland
20:30Hungary? - ?Moldova
Euro 2012 - Group F (qualifiers)
September 3
FTLatvia0 - 3Croatia
FTGreece1 - 1Georgia
September 7
19:00Georgia? - ?Israel
19:30Malta? - ?Latvia
20:30Croatia? - ?Greece
Euro 2012 - Group G (qualifiers)
September 3
FTMontenegro1 - 0Wales
FTEngland4 - 0Bulgaria
September 7
19:30Bulgaria? - ?Montenegro
20:45Switzerland? - ?England
Euro 2012 - Group H (qualifiers)
September 3
FTIceland1 - 2Norway
FTPortugal4 - 4Cyprus
September 7
20:15Denmark? - ?Iceland
20:30Norway? - ?Portugal
Euro 2012 - Group I (qualifiers)
September 3
FTLithuania0 - 0Scotland
FTLiechtenstein0 - 4Spain
September 7
20:15Czech Republic? - ?Lithuania
21:00Scotland? - ?Liechtenstein

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