Women's Football/Soccer World Cup 2007

That's the ticket.

And yes, lol argentina.

I just saw Alex Scott's goal again OMG KEEPER

I'm wondering who's done worse, the goalie for the Germany game, or the one who's been in for the last two. It's a tight call.

The keepers are SO BAD. When a team wins a free-kick within about 5 or 10 yards of the goal, it is in essence a penalty kick. I haven't actually seen on so far this tournament that HASN'T gone in. England let in two against Japan. New Zealand against Denmark. Now England again. Whenever the free-kick is awarded, there will ALWAYS be one player who can at least get it on target at a half-decent pace, without hitting it straight at the goalie. THIS WILL ALWAYS BE ENOUGH. It is embarrassing.

YOU INSENSTIVE ARSE

The Argentinian team are so bad at football they deserve to be beaten up. By men. With fists.

what i didn't get was how the press kept saying England would DEFINITELY be thru if they beat Arg by 2 goals without even bothering to include 'unless Japan beat Germany which is extremely unlikely but not impossible' or something similar - what gives?

ANOTHER FUXXING GOALKEEPING ERROR, this time from the hapless Argentinian.

Argentinian girls all over the country should be watching this, buying a pair of gloves, and demanding to be selected for the national team.

Germany were never going to lose to japan amirite

Yes, and the Germans are only one up at the mo' - Big New Prinz in the first half. So England can run up whatever score they like here (now 5-1 I see) but if the Japanese produce another late show, England could go out.

japan will need to score 6 goals in 20 minutes to knock england out

oh wait no i am wrong

if japan win england will need to score 7 more goals

maybe 6 or 5 depending on how much japan win by

No, we're all wrong... if Japan win, England go through with any win (Ger: 4, Eng: 5, Jap: 7). If Japan draw, England go through with a two-goal win (Jap: 5 (+1), Eng: 5 (+2), Ger: 5 (+11). If Japan lose, England go through with any win (Jap: 4, Eng: 5, Ger: 7).

So the BBC were right all along!

Jagger, just put your hands up and admit you were wrong before this hits 500 posts

Just be glad I haven't referred to 'Argies' yet. Oh, whoops!

Showing the own-goal again. Lethal.

And...Eng win 6-1, Ger win 2-0.

so basically all of you are telling me I should be watching this, because women figured out how to make soccer awesome?

If it's brilliant skill you're after, stay away (Kelly Smith's goal today was nicely-taken, mind), but if it's hysterically inept play that floats your boat, then wade right in!

Uh-oh, looks like a England USA ding dong though in the next round.

Bah, England always get the worst draw.

I'm being harsh; one of the US goals against Sweden last week was a thing of absolute beauty. The US, Germany and Brazil are on a different planet to the rest, though.

That's why the England Germany game was so good. It was one of those classic 0-0's which was really a victory for the UK.

Now if we could parley that result into a rematch in the final, it could go any way, they have that little bit more confidence now. Its a definite sign that the UK is growing as a team to be one of the best in the world.

But the US will be tough.

If you want a good laugh, click on the 'Related BBC Links' to this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/women/6997764.stm

i clicked that link but it went here instead :(

i think what this really shows is that goalkeepers in men's football are now TOO BIG and thus the goals should be increased in size to make up for this.

i am only semi-joking ;)

are england playing 4-4-2 btw? or is that team list just really oddly laid out? they usually play 4-3-3 you see.

Can't believe Rachel Unitt was on the subs bench.

Hahahaha, now if only she was famous for her commanding play at left-back...

um, <a href="http://www.thefa.com/Womens/EnglandSenior/PlayersAndCoaches/Postings/2004/10/RachelUnitt_profile.htm";>she is a left-back</a>, i am confused now...

FUCK OFF FUCKING BBCODE.

sorry.

um, she is a left-back, i am confused now...

have a think why she'd be awarded the player of the year gong on a public vote...

10v!5, your hilarious wordplay have foxed me...

Well, let's just say that the link to 'Rachel Unitt desktop wallpaper (1024v768)' isn't there by accident...

If it's brilliant skill you're after, stay away (Kelly Smith's goal today was nicely-taken, mind), but if it's hysterically inept play that floats your boat, then wade right in!

Not true, there's a lot of skill on display. And the games are less cagey than the shite the men regularly dish up in World Cups. But, yes, the goalkeeping is embarrassing, it's almost hard to believe it could be so bad - esp. when you consider these are the best women players in the world! Also, the players seem to tire quicker - I thought women had more stamina than men?

I still don't get this desktop wallpaper shit

SHE'S HOT (apparently)

I thought women had more stamina than men?

more endurance (pain threshold) as opposed to stamina perhaps

Yes, think so

http://www.sanspo.com/soccer/japan/women/member/player/image/arakawa_eriko.jpg

I WILL MISS YOU ERIKO ARAKAWA YOU WERE MY FAVE

i liked the way they talked to almost every player on the highlights show last night.

fara williams is totally the "am i bovvered" girl

do they give better interview than the meng?

some of them.

eniola aluka was dead good, you can tell she's training to be a lawyer. and the old pros like faye and kelly can spin a cliche well, and i am totally in awe of hope anyway...

anyways, sports personality team of the year:

arsenal ladies or the women's world cup squad (haha, not that there's that much difference!!)?

be nice to have a team actually win something tho or get close enough to it

we are going to get murked by the USA.

there is, it has to be said, a fair chance of this, but that won't stop me cheering them on on saturday...

Germany are a better team than the US at the moment. The problem is do we play for the draw and penalties, because whilst I think we were strong against Germany, we barely had a meaningful shot.

That said 1-0 US vs Nigeria is pretty poor.

we're totally not playing to our strengths if we sit back. we need to get yankey and aluko running at them, winning fouls and getting the balls on to white and scott, j's heads so smith, k can goalhang all she likes (see fourth (fifth?) goal against argentina)

IT IS TIME

http://www.britishbattles.com/images/princeton/british-grenadier.jpg
http://www.americanrevolution.com/us_independence.jpg

That's it. I'm definitely supporting the US now.

English girls all over the country should be watching this, buying a pair of gloves, and demanding to be selected for the national team.

lolkeeper

boring germany score lucky deflections shocker

Take that, Americaners.

Hooray! Well done Brazil!

apparently the most laughable red card in the history of ever was issued to a usa player

it was a second yellow, but yes it was quite unbelievable

pretty sweet fourth goal for brazil too (video)

Soooooooooooo glad Germany won this.

omg it is nearly time to watch girlies get killpwnzored by ze hun

go ladies

is on computer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8248865.stm

yeah, i'll watch women's football. Then maybe I'll watch some women's tennis. Thrilling times ahead.

Thanks, didn't realise this was on already!

yeah, i'll watch women's football. Then maybe I'll watch some women's tennis. Thrilling times ahead.

Oh yeah, and men's football is never less than fascinating

imagine a boring game of men's football and then imagine that all the players hadn't been fed for a week before the game, had all been given dead legs and sat on a roundabout for half an hour before the game so their strenght, coordination and stamina all got shot to fuck and then you have women's football.

oh i can't even spell, the cynicism is rotting my brain.

Bollocks

my biggest issue with women's football is the goalkeepers, and how winning a free-kick within 25 yards is tantamount to a penalty

oh boring

right ok, i'm watching, giving it a chance.

I can assure you Paraguay 0 Jibrovia 0 in the Group 15 of a 12 week World Cup Finals is more boring than any women's football match I've ever seen

ok lol

o_O

xp. Paraguay are actually ok, Jibrovia admittedly have seen better days.

Carney, what an unfortunate surname.

why are Germany wearing a Spain top by the way?

they're big fans

goddamn really shd have scored there

this is some game

but it has kinda lost its lustre now

'killpwnzored' is proving a surprisingly accurate forecast

Such a shame that like half of their goals were because our v. pretty goalkeeper looked too short to get close to them. Other than that, 'twas nice viewing.

George Lamb just interviewed the England captain on the radio, and called her "darling".

at least he did not say something about them being battered

but yeah he is a weapons-grade cunt

CMON OUR LASSES

sorry I thought this was the domestic violence thread

it's ok we all make mistakes

(I can never not think about that whenever I look for the women's footy thread)

(probably my worst moment on ILX, also in retrospect one of my funniest)

Personally I lolled

LJ brings the Bad News Bears Do Japan level of Bad News.

― Abbott, Monday, 17 September 2007 20:25 (2 years ago)

is this the only women's football thread we have?

think so. will it do?

oh wait, this one's more recent

2015 women's world cup

Ta! This one's more general I think. I was hoping there'd already be a little corner of ILX that talked regularly though.

We're never going to hear the end of this one.

I'm up in my sister's house just now, I was watching the game, she, having no interest in any sport of any kind,was reading the paper. A goal was scored, she looked out from behind her paper, "Who scored?" "England" "Oh fuck".

it’s come ‘ome

amazing what having a proper manager instead of Phil Neville can do.

still think Spain have the best team and were unfortunate with injuries and sad for Alex Popp today, but England have a great squad and used subs v cannily throughout the whole tourney

Spain played the best football.

Germany were easily the better team tonight if you discount the whole getting-the-ball-in-the-net thing.

Tremendous victory for England. Best in my lifetime, I suppose.

Impressive team, dramatic goals.

And good effort at the tactical art of "dribbling it to the corner flag and winning a throw" in the last 5 minutes.

That was an amazing final. Holy shit at Keira Walsh's ball and Ella Toone's finish. Surely there's more good to come from this than any bullshit nationalism or jingoism?

yeah one positive is that Germany and Spain will come back much stronger and never let England even get to a quarter final, never mind win a major competition, ever ever again.

I tried not to be mean spirited about this, but first thing I heard when I put the radio on this morning was fucking T**** L****

English Women's football needs to detoxify itself of any association with shitty racist 90's lads tv

maybe drop the "England" bit as well ..lol

maybe this will change your mind Calz?

Girl power radiating from Wembley tonight 💥✌🏻 pic.twitter.com/uVKrOnnJlA

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) July 31, 2022

what it's called when you are grimacing, shuddering and screaming in horror at the same time

I really warmed to Wiegman after hearing a profile on her last week. Especially the part where it was said she once took off her bra during a teamtalk to make some point about how both sides of the bra need to work for it to support her tits!

first saw the Dorries photo without a caption and wondered what had happened to Emma B

I was trying not to be too mean-spirited too but my sister's reaction showed I was right to be mean-spirited all along.

Looking at the unbridled joy on the pitch at the end, I didn't really give a shit about associations with any of the toxic male bullshit tbh. How are they supposed to decouple from all that media rhetoric exactly?

guess you're just a mean-spirited person

xp

Just Scottish, you cunt.