Saturday, July 08, 2006

Reviewing our picks

Several American TV broadcasts have labeled the French run to the World Cup Final as a major "surprise," and analysts such as Nick Webster (who picked the mighty three lions of England to win the World Cup), Julie Foudy and Alexi Lalas have expressed shock over the past two weeks that France has been able to beat any top teams. In fact on Fox Soccer Channel, 4 of 6 "Experts" polled prior to the start of Germany 2006 picked England to win the World Cup!

As a function of self promotion for our website, I invite our readers to review the predictions made prior to the World Cup by three of our commentators on this website. Both Zizzou and myself picked France to win the World Cup, and Gregg picked France to make the semifinals.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think England will win EURO 2008.

Anonymous said...

Oops! I mean EURO 2048.

Anonymous said...

Why did you pick France when their team is old and doesn't have the sort of firepower teams like England or Brazil have? Honestly, I believe our US squad was probably as good as France entering this world cup but got bad breaks and bad calls to stop our run. But we are the only team to get a result against Italy.

Anonymous said...

AsI have stated over and over again in discussions with friends and soccer novices, England is all hype and nothing else every world cup or euro. They are like Kansas or Syracuse used to be in NCAA Basketball. A squad that is always hyped, loved by the media, propped up around the globe, but turns into a total failure every time a major competetion roles around.

Anonymous said...

Utter Rubbish. Italy is rubbish, having an easy draw and then being totally outclassed in the final by France. Italians are the most unworthy champ of my lifetime. France should have won.