Juan Roman Riquelme the playmaker

I am not Argentine but their soccer do attract me! I like the way they play football. Just the way I want my game to be based on... keeping the ball in order to play football.

"You can't score goals if you can't keep the ball right." Kenneth

Oh by the way, if you are watching Germany v Argentina and wowing at how the Argentines beat the Germans, listen to the terrace go. They have the most fanatical flag-t-shirt-scarf-waving fans and some of the best songs soccer fans have to offer.

And there's also Juan Roman Riquelme.











Argentina Argentina Campeno!

My crystal balls say so

Don't ask me why, but I do know my balls are crystal.

Anyway, my balls say...

Bad luck to Germans, I know millions are behind you but I guess its time to say bye in 90. Though both teams are not flowing along the income stream at Nike.


English to thrash the poor-thing-lousy-ref-induced-setback Portugese. You see what I mean by what I said in my previous posts. 90 minutes.
Piece of cake for 3-1 thrashing?
Oh will Rooney even score in this World Cup? This shall be his stage if he is not busy f-ing the argentinian ref for sending off beckham again.


Italians V Ukraine???
My balls are clouded on that. I don't know if the Italians are sentimental folks but the nonsense that they have to put up with at home, may have an effect on their performance? Am not sure.
120 minutes of ridiculous chess game plus 10 stationary balls...
Shevchenko to score this time with the Eastern Euporeans to go through?


Oh and the very mouth watering Brazilians v French.
Balls have to put themselves on the line and go for the samba balachan to go thro by the skin of their buck teeth.
I know I know you will say its going to be the most boring game of the 4 games but the Spanish ref is going to play a big part in this game. Darn to say such things but going by events we have seen so far, ref this time round aren't going to be just the 23rd man, they seem bent to BE the 12th player!
Maybe a drag of 1-1 through extra time and penalities to decide with Ronaldo doing the do


Oh and who to meet in the finals.
My balls are quite clear on this actually...

English hooligans will have a time of their lives V Argentinians the eventual Campeno

Who are the Man-with-the-Whistle?

Was told I got the name wrong from a Malay fren... Its Shamsul Maidin and not what nonsense I spelled his name.

Anyway, I think I got bad news. Our man-in-black does not seem to be getting any more games.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/5108722.stm

Well there you have it, I wonder whats their referee committee up to. I mean we can all say let them decide, they are the governing body afterall and will do a good job. But look at the line up of ref man.

1) Argentinian refereeing the Eng (many believe to be arch enemy) V Portugal (many believe to be neutral acquaintance) game
2) East European refereeing the Germany V Argentina game (maybe nothing in here cept...)
3) European refereeing West Europe v East Europe in Italy V Ukarine (Can meh?)
4) Spainish refereeing the S Americas V European game (Is Spain very close to French or are there too many brazilians playing in Spain?)

I am not saying anything, yet, I am just stating the facts so far. However if I am allowed to look into it (am an social science student anyway, academic hazard), I just don't like the way the referees have been alocatted. But I don't want to undermine the professionalism of the referees.

Will only give my comments, after, the games.

Play-On!!!

Oh where was I...? Shamsul Maidin where are you?

Do I need to repeat myself that this World Cup is a farce?!?

FIFA you have outdone yourself. You are now officially an embarassment! I was so embarassed with your referees that I am not even interested in the World Cup anymore... FIFA you are a disppointment in training, organising, guiding and deploying of your batch of referees.

Can somebody just explain to me what happened in the Brazil v Ghana match?!?

Oh maybe, just maybe, that there is a reason for the inept referees that are out there... the reason might be to give Singapore referee Maidin the opportunity to referee the finals. Lets hope that this honest, straight and fair referee gets to officiate at the Grand Finals. If its someone else, I would say that there is a very high chance that the game will turn out to be just another farce.

Shamsul Maidin for the Finals!!! Did I get his name right??
Shamsul save my throat and heart and save the World Cup!

Oh just to set the matter straight...

I love Brazil, but I am not Brazilian you see. So I actually wouldn't mind Brazil losing the game. Infact i wouldn't mind any team losing any team cos I am Singaporean afterall. For the love of the game I play and support soccer, just some fancy jersey or club. Ghana is not a big name in soccer, but they had a big heart. They are not the best, they are not top scorers, by golly they are not pretty boys... but they were trying to play soccer. Yes they missed chances, but they had the heart which Brazil didn't display. And this white ass idiot had to spoil 1 billion people's joy of the game. This stupid bugger actually behaved as if he really want Brazil to go through. Thats what infuriating.

Once again I ask, who does the referee think he is. Has the referees forgotten that a brilliant referee is one who doesn't get noticed in a match. Tat a referee is a lousy referee once he gets mentioned instead of the players in the papers the next day.

Dare I say that the referee eat money and fish at a kelong?!? Probably not but one couldn't help noticing right.

Suspensions in the World Cup

Here comes the first suspension notable of the World Cup.
Michel Essien- Ghana

For a sliding tackle on USA captain Ayrena. The tackle was timly and 'good', even from USA head coach Bruce (* source soccernet) but the idiotic ref who probably cannot tell the difference between his nostril from his anus had to show the yellow card.

So the World Cup round of 16 between Brazil and Ghana will see the non participation of a world class player.

I just don't get it. These referees who are reportly paid (source Straits Times) USD 48000 per game have to go all out to spoil the World Cup.

I am not saying soccer has no fouls and such. By all means, card those players with 2 legged tackles, tackles with studs showing. But for more than 75% of the cards dish out at the group stages, are cards that might not have to be flashed!

There was one given to a player for taking a penalty too early. One given to a player who took a shot at goal 1 sec after the whistle. One to a player who took more than 6 secs in deciding who to kick a free kick too. And wasted even more time after seeing yellow cos he decided to argue with the ref for 3.2 secs more and promptly walked away giving the task of taking the free kick to another player, who probably took another 4.32 secs taking that kick. The bloody stupid list goes on.

Its damn stupid FIFA refereering committee.
Trust me
The World will hate those ppl who decided to list down those things that 'needed' clamping down.

Imagine Ronaldinho given a yellow for taking 7.8 secs decided where to place his freekick after taking his trade mark stare down of the gk. And in the semi-finals, took a free kick 1.24 secs too early before the whistle bcos of lesson from that first yellow that he got in the q-finals.
And he gets suspended from the final!

FIFA you are greedy, a farce and a fraud

And FIFA referees, you have not been fair to the paying public

Play-on!!!

My stupid crystal balls said so

So tonight's big matches are worth all the euros one has paid for the tickets

Czech v Italy - 0-1

Ghana v USA - 2-1

Italy and Ghana to go thro to the nex round

Japan v Brazil - 0-3

Aust v Croatia - 3-1

Brazil and Aust to go thro

Hey its my stupid crystal balls that say so... I am just the damn messenger

The World Cup is almost coming to the end and I hate referees

The World Cup is about to come to an end. There aren't many matches left and I say good riddance! In a blink of the eye, the World Cup will be over and Mexico might be World Champions and we can go back to our normal way of life. And ppl can dutifully earn back all the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they have deposited with singapore pools for a better future for all.

Anyway I almost had to activate my AXA insuance policies either cos of heart attack or broken foot or lung implosion. All this not caused by the teams representing their countries but just one man... The bloody Referee!

I hate referees as much as I hate judges. Who was the idiot sitting in his FIFA leather chair that decided to gave one man so much power who has the ability to decide the outcome of a match?
That idiot who 'decides' on the way a game is played n ultimatly its result... but who checks on him.

This referee hating nonsense started when in a previous blog I castigated an idiot when he judged the champions league final Arsenal v Barca. You know who lah. I forgot him name anyway he is nobody cos he will never referee another high profile game again in his life.
I found a newfound hatred for referees that night cos not only was he plain stupid, he destroyed a few ppl's life and destroyed the spectacle which is the biggest club finals in the World. I do support Arsenal but I like Barca too. Those who understand football will know what I m talking about.

Its not enuff to say that there are match commissioners to check on the performance of the referees, cos by that time its already too late. Iran would have progressed to the finals to play Mexico and the referee commission or whatever wouldn't have been able to catch up cos the referee in the other match would have screwed up so much that it would take another 4 years for FIFA to decide how to 'punish' all those damn lousy referees. Anyway the punishment would prob only to ban that referee from judging high profile matches only anyway.

Trust me, this years World Cup final we will not see a/or some superstar play. Cos either he is serving a one match ban or manage to get himself sent off.
Ppl would have paid the blackmarket a few months of his salary to watch a stupid idiot referee a match without star names. The game will decend into a boring spectacle with a few yawns.

Whats this nonsense about giving out so many yellow n red cards. Is it so that they can earn high match commission fee like how players earn allowances for scoring or winning???

Anyway enuff said. As i said, only those who understand soccer will know what i mean.
I hate referees.

A tip for soccer punters who already deposited a few grand with our insurance agents singaproe pools, check whos the referee before placing your bets.

Its Brazil's Argentina's or Ivory Coast's World Cup?

WE scored 3 goals but lost again...enuff said

I have had enuff of losing

I play 'sunday' soccer almost every week. I think we have lost all the time. I think it must be me. Hahahaha
I havn't gotten used to the constant losing but as thats the feeling I get almost every week, I might one day get 'used to it' and thats what i don't want.
However just last week, the team played to a goalless draw in a tournament. I hope they will work on it and get that elusive win man.

Theres another team tat I play with too and when I play with the other team, usually its better cos usually its either a draw or, once in a purple moon, a win.
You can say that I am a journeyman when it comes to which team I play for.

Anyway I do not want to pay money to sweat and to lose everyweek. Again!
It has to start with this weekend's game!

Lets go for the win guys!

England will WIN!?!

Even though the last few days my windows messenger nick is 'England will Win'... I am sure many ppl will seriously be asking 'Will Englang win the World Cup this time round'?

Well this is my prediction.

England to draw with Paraguay
England to thrash T&T as a form of revenge say 2-0, leaving the crucial last game versus Sweden all the more crucial, playing out to a disppointing high scoring draw say 2-2.
What does that leave?
England to go home after the first round?

Maybe...

What is your fav position... soccer formation lah!

4-4-2 or 4-3-3?

4-1-4-1 or 4-2-4?

Lets discuss the merits of the different formations and leave your comments. Especially those guys who play soccer with me regularly, maybe you will like to leave comments on how you think we could play.

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