DanishVillan

(2) Even if they did, it would probably be unenforceable in practice.

"I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold dead hands"

yep.

It is happening in Europe too and I don´t believe it is because the guns are easy to get.

I wonder what sort of (over)medication he was on. Antidepressants?

What about the Mickey Mouse of International football...The Confederations Cup.

Thanks to decay, that should count as much as any trophy won more than 40 years ago.

Yes it's basically like:

Brazil, Germany

Italy, Argentina

France, Spain

England, Holland, Portugal

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Uruguay, Russia, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Japan, USA, Mexico, South Korea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Egpyt etc

That makes sense, considering international football is basically what boxing would be without weight classes.

Size does matter and Portugal and Holland are punching way above their weight.

Was a very different time back then. Denmarks biggest ever win is from 1908. 17-1 against the French.

That was at the olympics though, We didn´t allow profesionals in the national side before 1971 and were terrible.

I believe that Holland would have won that game when it was at 1-0 however the fact they needed to win by 2 or more goals forced them to go searching for a second and ultimately allowed Portugal to catch them on the break

they had 75 minutes to get a 2nd, Portugal equalised quite soon after

Highlights my point even further, in normal circumstances they'd have set back and tired to keep their goal lead intact however because of the current rules UEFA have in place that would have been no good to them so they were forced to throw everything they had at them leaving them exposed at the back.

Because of the current rules?

I thought it was because they had been pretty crap, scoring 1 goal and 0 points after their first 2 matches.

How should they twist the rules, so this wont happen again?

£100k fine for Nicklas Bendtner for his celebration against Portugal. The most expensive goal he ever scored. Absolutely ridiculous.

He won't be paying a penny of it.

The best value £100k Paddy Power have spent on advertising this summer.

Bentner will pick up a nice wedge from them as well I'd say.

He will also be suspended for our first WC qualifier...

Congrats to the Czechs and the Greeks. Party on!

Can someone explain what Holland need to qualify, whats the story with head to head if theyre all on 3 points and all beat each other?

Still a little tricky, but I think they need Germany to win vs Denmark and to win vs Portugal with 2 goals advantage.

The results against Germany will not count if the other 3 teams all end on equal points and goal difference need to be used.

So far in that minileague Portugals goal difference is +1, Denmarks is 0 and Netherlands -1.

Denmarks most likely way through is a draw vs Germany and a Dutch win.

Haha oh well, I remember it as alot longer.

Great pictures of Soerensen and Mellberg hugging after the match.

That, our fans dancing together and the signs of "2-2 = Nordic victory" were abit too much for the Italians.

Italy went out in 2004 in this exact situation with Sweden and Denmark drawing 2-2.

When Sweden equalized 15-20 min before time the game died and both teams were visible happy to end the game.

The Italians were not happy but I´m sure it will happen again if it is 2-2 with 15 min. to go in Spain-Croatia.

They could win 10-0 and go home.

A 2-2 draw in the Spain-Croatia match could be fun. Italy already nervous about version 2 of the "Nordic plot".

To me it seems many young Irish talents are either trapped into the English league because of the low standard in the national league, or unwilling to go to leagues like the Dutch. I´m sure that would be a better place for development than English 1st Div.

Fully expecting Dutch and German wins tonight but looking forward to see both matches.

Likely Danish line-up:

Andersen, Jacobsen, Kjaer, Agger, Poulsen, Zimling, Kvist, Eriksen, Krohn-dehli, Rommedahl, Bendtner.

Zimling hurt himself yesterday and if he doesn´t make it, Poulsen (Jakob or Christian), will get his place. *Sigh*

We only really have competition at CB, with Bjelland, who could take Kjaers spot and Okore, who is a very big talent.

Left and rightbacks are not great but overall I think our defenders can match the Dutch. Rest of the pitch is a different story.

The Big 9 - England, France & Italy, Germany & Holland, Spain & Portugal, Argentina & Brazil

If you include Uruguay, it will be a little more truthful and become the much cooler Big 10.

Michael Laudrup. That will be the standard reply from Danes around my age.

If you played for Manchester United, a team competing at the very highest level year after year, would you risk an injury playing for Wales, a country that will never achieve anything in international football?

Sometimes I do wander. I was listening to Lewis Moody the other day he was saying how in Rugby the players automatically raise there game by 10% when playing internationally. I think this is lacking in the Football and its wrong.

Thats because international Rugby is the pinnacle of the game, international football is a distraction. To get the big endorsements in Rugby you have to be a highly performing international player, you don't in football.

International football for players in the PL isn't about being in the shop window like it is for players in other countries, they are already in one of the top leagues. So really, they aren't that bothered or motivated, despite what they say and even possibly think at the back of their mind will always be the prospect of getting injured and ruling themselves out of club football for a while.

And let's be honest International football is a largely dull spectacle, I rarely watch it, its bores me beyond belief at times

That is a very rare view on international football mostly found in the UK.

You tell most of the other European players that internationals is a distraction and they will think you are crazy.

Compare Schmeichel (129) or Ronaldo (86 currently) to Giggs. Laursen and Mellberg would never back out either.

I think it's easy to just brand the financial sector as some sort of parasite (after all, banker bashing is still the in thing isn't it?) but it's just not the case. It generates billions a year. I think if the financial sector went under a lot of people would soon realise just how important it is.

It generates billions by charging other people, not by producing anything.

There's a useful finance function, and there's the rest. The useful part is the bit they want to get away from. Too boring, doesn't make enough money. The other bit, the casino part, is worse than parasitic, it actively destabilises economies and causes massive damage, as we all know.

Banks create debt. That's what they do. That is their "product". The more they create, the richer they are. The overwhelming problem facing the world's economy is that they have been allowed to create so much debt that we are drowning in it. Great news for them, appalling for everyone else.

Don't confuse banker bashing (which is a suitable and appropriate response to the grotesque greed and irresponsibility of those at the top) with looking critically at the role the finance sector plays in the economy. For hundreds of years people have criticised the effect of usury and unearned income in stifling enterprise, and have sought ways to limit the damage created. Bankers and landlords, both are "rentiers" in this sense, living off charges they make to others who actually work. It's not a reaction to Fred the Shred and the rest of them, it's sound economic analysis conducted by many people over a very great length of time.

Except in our case it suck money and talent from other countries around the world and brings it in to the UK to be spent here in both tax revenues and goods and services.

It is a massive advantage the UK has and Merkel and Sarkozy have coveted the UK financial industry for a long time ..

...And it also function as a safe haven for financial terrorists.

The money and talent of Icelandic bankers is indisputable. They cleared alot of (UK) accounts.

But lets not destroy their good life inside the City of London and focus on getting money out of ordinary people on Iceland.

The other 23 (or perhaps 26) seem as though they are just going to go ahead.

They can´t move much more than a few commas before it trickers a public vote here. Our PM already went way too far with her promises, in many peoples mind.

New government, after ten years of hell and they carry right on pretending Danes voted yes to the Euro.

Woohoo, easy group, nine points in the bank.....

I shall remember that quote. 8) :winkold:

Haha, yeah I should have known that.

I was a little bit sarcastic but bring them on!

Smells like ´92

Woohoo, easy group, nine points in the bank.....

Totti.

I think lots of "older" people use cannabis, even in the UK. Just much more secret about it.

Anyone seen "Stoned in suburbia"?

What a great grandmother to have.

Someone will have to do something about their drug abuse though. It looks disgustingly fun. Ban Catnip!

Cats rule, dogs obey.