Let the games begin...or should that be the qualifiers? I know there WERE games played before Saturday 4th but that day had the biggest glut of qualifying games to date so why not mark it with a thread to get things underway...
Will WC'06 see another underdog take the crown like EC'04? Who knows! Judging by the way the BRAND NAMES played yesterday, anything's possible! Not even Sweden knocking in 7 against Malta away from home impressed.
No... it was Israel that took the plaudits! Holding France to a draw in Stade De France takes some achievement...particularly in a competitive game. Nice one...BUT the Israelis's are in OUR group. Tough times ahead, I think!
GREECE proved against lowly Albania what we knew all along...EC'04 was a terrible tournament. Good luck to them for winning it BUT shame on the so called WORLD POWERS they beat!
There again WC2002 wasn't very much either. A poor German team contested THE FINAL...the same team that couldn't even beat a second string Czech team and get out of their group two years later...
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Roy THE BOY Keane makes a return for Wednesday's night Battle Of Basel! That injury he had for the Cypriot game seems to have cleared up rather quickly...more likely he told that Scottish git with the purple head -Alex Ferguson- where to go...about time he stood up for himself and got his priorities right...
In a GREEN shirt!!! Let the first REAL test of The Republic's WC qualifiers commence!!!
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It now seems Damien Duff has only a 50/50 chance of playing Wednesday night. He's without doubt a vital cog in the Irish playing machine and will be badly missed if he dosen't make it...
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It WOULD help if he used the offside trap a bit more to releive the pressure...the Swiss were'nt caught offside even once...and not giving the ball away cheaply would benefit things too!
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I THINK that the fact that YOU randomly CAPITALIZE words is throwing people off who are TRYING to read this.
US is in GOOD position to qualify, even though THEY have to play in the tough away conditions such as at Jamaica, EL salvador, ETC. Should get into the next round quite easily, looks like it will be the US, MEXICO coming out of CONCACAF with a host of teams battling for the third SPOT.
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The World Cup 2006 Thread.
Sep 5th, 2004 01:26 PM
Let the first REAL test of The Republic's WC qualifiers commence!!! 
He's without doubt a vital cog in the Irish playing machine and will be badly missed if he dosen't make it...
An easy romp for us Irish so...as nobody else is going to turn up!!! 
