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Pah! Fat chance! The only time I would offer my (grudging) support to the Germans would be when they're playing the French


(with apologies to riotact, obviously )

I have to say that Andy G's full house from yesterday is very impressive. 1-all with a Mexican defender scoring first. Not many would have the balls for that one.

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Bugger, forgot to be here yesterday.

Anyway, in case GD is feeling nice deadline-wise., I'm going to make some predictions for today:

England 2-1 Ecuador (Agustin Delgado)
Portugal 3-1 Holland (Luis Figo)

just went for Marquez 'cause I figured he'd been playing pretty well, and might score from a set piece... and boy, was I glad when that Argentinian goal was ruled out for offside...

Not that it's likely to make much difference to my usual bottom-half finish though...

please note that FIFA has finally ruled that crespo will be credited with that

Ah well, if only it had all happened inside the 90 minutes, then there would be an awful lot more points being splashed around. As it stands Argentina drew one-all with Mexico in the second round

This was pretty good news however for me[Andy]g, who's landed a full house as a result

And I think we need give mention to Egon, who was the only one to predict a Portugal victory, and hence the only one to land any points from the match

As to the winner. Well that's another of our ex-pats. Stand up Summerbayexile, you've won with a very respectable 9 points, including a German full house

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The Results:

Germany 2-0 Sweden (PODOLSKI)

Argentina 1-1 Mexico (MARQUEZ, Crespo)

England 1-0 Ecuador (BECKHAM)

Portugal 1-0 Holland (MANICHE)

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summerbayexile - 9 points (Germany full house ; Argentina scorer; England result & score)

me[Andy]g - 7 points (Argentina full house ; England result)

Ormondroyd - 6 points (Germany result; Argentina scorer; England result & score)

riotact - 6 points (Germany result & score; Argentina scorer; England result)

Yakusmaximus - 6 points (Germany result & score; Argentina scorer; England result)

bubba-fretts - 5 points (Germany result; England result & score)

Master B - 5 points (Germany result & score; England result)

Psycorp - 5 points (Germany result; Argentina scorer; England result)

Egon - 4 points (England result; Portugal result)

Owlatron - 4 points (Germany result; England result)

Bottletop - 3 points (Argentina scorer; England result)

Demon Drawer - 3 points (Argentina scorer; England result)

GreyDesk - 2 points (Germany result)

Um, not that it will matter too much in the long run, but I did have Beckham down to score for England...

You did indeed.


* wanders off to fiddle with the table *