Brazil 2 North Korea 1

[1%er]

This is the score the great leader has decreed and as it appears there are no North Korean journalists in attendance at Ellis Park it may well be the score

Me and Kin-Jong have our beers and are ready for the off

 

[TitanSound]

I have a £5 bet with a guy in my office that this will be the score!

I reckon all the NK players have been super trained like Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV.

 

[wtfftw]

Actual goals?

 

[1%er]

I have a £5 bet with a guy in my office that this will be the score!

I reckon all the NK players have been super trained like Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV.

Your money is safe, I just had a word with the man

All you need to do it get a copy of "North Korea Today" dated the 14th June, I saw the score printed in that yesterday

 

[Lord Camomile]

This thread title does not fit the established format - I am not happy

 

[Lord Camomile]

Anyway, hasn't everyone been talking about how Brazil aren't the flair-merchants they usually are - no Ronaldinho and Dunga favouring a much more pragmatic style?

Completely on a whim, 2-0 to Brazil.

 

[1%er]

Anyway, hasn't everyone been talking about how Brazil aren't the flair-merchants they usually are - no Ronaldinho and Dunga favouring a much more pragmatic style?

Completely on a whim, 2-0 to Brazil.

Well they may be saying that where you are, here in Manaus everyone is going crazy, I went out this morning and I only saw one other person who wasn't wearing a Brazil shirt, it look at times as if I was walking to a big game and about 100 meters from the stadium there were so many people in Brazil shirts. Everything here will close (except the bars) at 15:00hr, the schools and Government offices have been closed all day.

Looking out of the window the roads are already deserted. I'm really excited it is the first time I have watched Brazil play while in Brazil, you can feel the excitement in the air.

I'm going to the bar soon in a Brazil shirt but there is method in my madness (you never know who you may bump into )

 

[Diamond]

Yeah Brazil are a deeply functional side. Interesting from a tactical point of view though because they play in such a clearly asymmetric fashion.

North Korea will start with five in defence too.

I don't think that the goalfest is going to start with this one.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Well they may be saying that where you are, here in Manaus everyone is going crazy, I went out this morning and I only saw one other person who wasn't wearing a Brazil shirt, it look at times as if I was walking to a big game and about 100 meters from the stadium there were so many people in Brazil shirts. Everything here will close (except the bars) at 15:00hr, the schools and Government offices have been closed all day.

Looking out of the window the roads are already deserted. I'm really excited it is the first time I have watched Brazil play while in Brazil, you can feel the excitement in the air.

They may be going crazy, but I feel that has little to do with the way their team play Fernando Duarte was on Football Weekly in the run up to the tournament saying that the Brazilian press and public are just waiting for Dunga's team to fail.

Yeah Brazil are a deeply functional side. Interesting from a tactical point of view though because they play in such a clearly asymmetric fashion.

North Korea will start with five in defence too.

I don't think that the goalfest is going to start with this one.

My suspicions too, but don't worry - as I said on the Ivory Coast v Portugal thread I'll be making my way home from work so there should be goals aplenty

 

[Maggot]

I'm off to the South London North Korea fan club's (Marxist Leninist) inaugural meeting: http://footballvoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/06/south-london-north-korea-fan-club.html

 

[nicksonic]

plenty of brazilians want the team to not do well so the 'european style' can be abandoned and the less successful 'samba football' re-employed.

 

[twistedAM]

W
I'm going to the bar soon in a Brazil shirt but there is method in my madness (you never know who you may bump into )

Does the bar take plastic?

 

[RaverDrew]

I'm off to the South London North Korea fan club's (Marxist Leninist) inaugural meeting: http://footballvoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/06/south-london-north-korea-fan-club.html

I popped in there the other day for a match, they really need to learn how to focus a projector - completely unwatchable

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This is a game I've really been looking forward to.

I told someone last night I reckoned the score would be 5-1 to Brazil (if North Korea are really lucky)

 

[TrippyLondoner]

I bet it ends 0-0.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm wondering if the sight of all those Brazilian women will put a temporary halt to the sound of vuvuzelas

 

[Lord Camomile]

There are lots of Chinese nationals in Johannesbug acting as North Korean fans by proxy. Turns out the North Korean sports ministry authorised a Chinese sports PR agency to sell tickets for the game as few North Koreans could afford the journey or receive visas to leave the country, with lots of "volunteers" snapping up the tickets.

Oh, North Korea, you are silly.

 

[toblerone3]

Brazil need to score 15 to bring the tally of goals in this world cup up the same level as in 2008. I am optimistically going for a 5-1.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Oh, North Korea, you are silly.

That's an understatement!

 

[two sheds]

You lot can scoff - just think of 1966 when they beat Italy and were 3-0 up against Portugal. I remember it well - should have won they should.

 

[Espresso]

Edgar Davids on the ITV panel just now is obviously a big fan of Diversity.

 

[twistedAM]

I'm wondering if the sight of all those Brazilian women will put a temporary halt to the sound of vuvuzelas

How do you know they're women? Look at the bulge on the one on the left.

 

[marty21]

i've just put a quid on a Brazil win, 8-0 score 100/1

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

How do you know they're women? Look at the bulge on the one on the left.

Well that might shut them up even more whilst their jaws hit the floor

 

[Augie March]

North Korea has a Gazza!

 

[Numbers]

North Korea has a Gazza!

Brilliant tho' - proper image FIFA will be wetting themselves over.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yay! This is the first time I genuinely have a reason to have Brazil as my second team

Go Brazil

 

[belboid]

they've survived for the full ninety seconds!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

North Korea has a Gazza!

Maybe he's homesick

 

[TrippyLondoner]

bet the NK goalie has a brilliant game