World Cup vs Wimbledon

Two great sporting events on the same month, an absolute cracker, but where did you priorities stay?

It was so difficult for me to switch between Federer match Serena Match and the World Cup, eventually decided to stay with the world cup but following the scores of Federer's match and Serena's match.

Some great matches tomorrow all day , where will your priority lie? now don't lie.  

For me at the moment World cup is winning hands down coz of rise of underdogs, so unfortunate to see Mexico lose with 6 minute to go in the clock, and very unfortunate for Chile to lose against Brazil in Brazil on penalities.

But my team Costa Rica [Coz I have bet Costa Rica to win the World Cup outright 150 times odds at $35 = $5250] survived a 10 man to win in penalties.


Unless NK rise to challenge and give me something special against Rafa, this Wimbledon has been a disappointment from the underdogs.

wimbledon is every year

I will watch Tennis with FIFA on Mobile scores. Got to watch NED-MEX and CRC-GRE today.

GRE missed too many chances. I think NED should win this.

laverfan wrote:I will watch Tennis with FIFA on Mobile scores. Got to watch NED-MEX and CRC-GRE today.

GRE missed too many chances. I think NED should win this.

COSTA RICA MAAMU   

invisiblecoolers wrote:

laverfan wrote:I will watch Tennis with FIFA on Mobile scores. Got to watch NED-MEX and CRC-GRE today.

GRE missed too many chances. I think NED should win this.

COSTA RICA MAAMU   

You seem very convinced, Beta. Admire your support for the under-dogs.

My prediction is GER-ALG, SUI-BEL.

no way switzerland can beat argentina. this is no tennis

ok it could happen, but I dont see it

I normally prefer tennis to soccer but not during a World Cup.  If it is Germany vs France and Federer vs Nadal or Andy vs Nole on Friday, tennis will be taking a back-seat, and I will follow scores only while watching soccer.  Of course, tennis is likely to take more than 90 minutes, so I will likely get to watch some of that too

laverfan wrote:My prediction is GER-ALG

They are playing tomorrow

naxroy wrote:no way switzerland can beat argentina. this is no tennis

ok it could happen, but I dont see it

No way Costa Rica can beat Italy.

summerblues wrote:

naxroy wrote:no way switzerland can beat argentina. this is no tennis

ok it could happen, but I dont see it

No way Costa Rica can beat Italy.

Costa Rica not only F'ed the Italy but also Uruguay and Suarez   

Yea for the first time tennis is taking back seat for soccer in my case, can't believe Wimbledon is going on and we are focusing on World Cup, but World cup credit it has been one of the best and damn interesting matches.

@LF, how about if I tip US to beal Belgium   , I would Algeria upsetting Germany but that would ruin France vs Germany right, so don't want that  

Go swiss, germany, holland. Anyone of them i'm fine

Jahu wrote:Go swiss, germany, holland. Anyone of them i'm fine

No Brazil? or USA?  

Well I have no interest in football, so Wimbledon

football wins hands down. If there is a big-4 match up in the semi final I might watch it. I will probably watch the final. World cup I watch things like Bosnia-Iran. I would have watched Dimitrov-Dolgopolov if I'd known about it before, but that's all. I don't think I have watched 5 minutes of tennis so far. I didn't find out Nadal was playing Rosol again until I saw the highlights. For a minute I thought I was watching a clip from last year.

invisiblecoolers wrote:Costa Rica not only  F'ed the Italy but also Uruguay and Suarez

Suarez did not play against Costa Rica.

But I think we are agreeing on the substance - out of the group with Italy, England and Uruguay, Costa Rica was guaranteed to advance with one match to spare.  If anyone had suggested before the WC this would happen, I would have thought they were smoking some really potent stuff.

summerblues wrote:

invisiblecoolers wrote:Costa Rica not only  F'ed the Italy but also Uruguay and Suarez

Suarez did not play against Costa Rica.

But I think we are agreeing on the substance - out of the group with Italy, England and Uruguay, Costa Rica was guaranteed to advance with one match to spare.  If anyone had suggested before the WC this would happen, I would have thought they were smoking some really potent stuff.

True, even the guy who generally predict the underdog chances didn't see this coming, but guess what I did bet Costa Rica to beat or draw Uruguay and when they beat Uruguay from 0-1 down to 3-1 I was amazed, so I did fancy their chances against Italy and made a wealth out of these 2 matches but lost them in England match as I bet quite a few bucks at 5.00 odds for them to win England, with England fielding B team I thought Costa Rica would win by handsome margin but the draw costed me   

Against Greece had they won 1-0 I would have pocked $200 for a meagre $20 bet, damn Costa Rica conceded the goal last minute.

Back to the thread topic, die hard tennis fans are propelling the Wimbledon fame in the poll.   

Canada Day tomorrow , so no office so I can watch both World Cup as well as Wimbledon   

Argentina and US in action

Rafa and Roger in action .   

Enjoy!

We have Independence Day on Friday, so I am similarly looking forward to that

summerblues wrote:Enjoy!

We have Independence Day on Friday, so I am similarly looking forward to that

But I am planning to call sick on Friday   , No way I am going to office on friday.

Nice article IC   I have to give Wimby the edge, simply because the fab four are playing pretty fab plus one or two newcomers have made the event. Good to see Dimi being consistent as well

And footie's supposed to be my No.1 sport!!!

The World Cup has been great as well

It depends on what both sports are offering at the time.

Say for example tennis has a mouth-watering clash on around 5pm (UK Time) and Word Cup has a mundane match then tennis wins. Vice versa applies as in if we get a match in tennis that doesn't look entertaining whilst we have an evenly matched exciting game in World Cup then football wins out. The 9pm kick-off matches you can watch anyway (in UK) as tennis has all but finished for the day.

Tennis all the way!!

Football is just utter crap nowadays!

It was heart breaking to see Swiz lose in the 2nd extra time with 3 minutes in the clock, and that too the came so close to equalizer with seconds left in the clock when the header hit the post, how sad.

legendkillarV2 wrote:Tennis all the way!!

Football is just utter crap nowadays!

By many football pundits this World cup is said to be one of the best.  

switzerland almost did it. but in the end, argentina lucky or not, goes through. I expect argentina to reach the final now

invisiblecoolers wrote:

legendkillarV2 wrote:Tennis all the way!!

Football is just utter crap nowadays!

By many football pundits this World cup is said to be one of the best.  

I would say it was one of the most open which makes a refreshing change.

Have watched world cup.

Yesterday was the first time I watched wimbledon.

Will try and catch the rest if I can.

Bouchard & Raocic(sp), the canadian to win hopefully.

Brazil vs Columbia or Wimby - it's a tough call!

What about Germany vs France against Federer vs Raonic?

invisiblecoolers wrote:What about Germany vs France against Federer vs Raonic?

Fed vs Raonic obviously!

reckoner wrote:

invisiblecoolers wrote:What about Germany vs France against Federer vs Raonic?

Fed vs Raonic obviously!

I keeping both my laptops on

Thanks to the two semi-finals finishing so early atleast I can watch Brazil vs Columbia without any tension.

@iC... NED is through. Two fantastic saves by NED. Feel bad for CRC, but someone had to go through. Good decision by NED to replace their goalie in the last minute of extra time.

Sad to loose on penalties. CR were superb on extension.

Go Brasil, Go Holland.

laverfan wrote:@iC... NED is through. Two fantastic saves by NED. Feel bad for CRC, but someone had to go through. Good decision by NED to replace their goalie in the last minute of extra time.

Incredible call to make, really. Tactical masterstroke?

Feel bad for CR but Holland deserved the win, great pens too. Shame Krul had to get in the faces of the opposition though, extremely poor sportsmanship.

Silver wrote:

laverfan wrote:@iC... NED is through. Two fantastic saves by NED. Feel bad for CRC, but someone had to go through. Good decision by NED to replace their goalie in the last minute of extra time.

Incredible call to make, really. Tactical masterstroke?

Feel bad for CR but Holland deserved the win, great pens too. Shame Krul had to get in the faces of the opposition though, extremely poor sportsmanship.

I agree, but Holland always play dirty - can you imagine what the semi's going to be like!!

Can I politely disagree with you, Reckoner? Some of the LatAm teams are equally bad. I saw Robben brought down a couple of times when he beat CRC players with sheer speed.

@Silver... Krul was doing his job of pre-shot intimidation (Navas was free to do that as well, right, but he chose to pray at the corner of the penalty box instead), and I do agree it was tactically a fantastic decision.

laverfan wrote:@iC... NED is through. Two fantastic saves by NED. Feel bad for CRC, but someone had to go through. Good decision by NED to replace their goalie in the last minute of extra time.

   

Had Costa Rica won the World Cup I would have made $3500 for a bet of just $35 , but anyways that was not a loss, according to Bet365 if the my outright team is eliminated in penalities they money back garuntee, so I got my $35 but felt bad for Costa Rica to lose this way.

@BanBro, finally we got somebody who being a footie fan decided to give Wimbledon more preference .  

Hey laverfan - I'm not saying the LatAm's play is clean far from it! That's what I meant - the semi against Argentina is going to be crazy because both play very dirty.

Johan Cruyff (Dutch footballing legend) in 2010:

'Sadly, they played very dirty,' said Cruyff. 'So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two (such) ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage.
'Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football.'

He added: 'What you cannot do is create your own sense of justice and, even worse, invent a very personal application of the rules.'

G

Germany Argentina finals anyways, Messi will knock the Dutch out.

ARG will find it tough to knock NED. It would be disappointing for BRA to lose to GER, but it should be a close match.

laverfan wrote:ARG will find it tough to knock NED. It would be disappointing for BRA to lose to GER, but it should be a close match.

Germany losing to Brazil would be a tragedy, hope not it happens, Dutch Argentina I don't care.

I hope Brazil lose the dirty b***ards!!

Don't like teams who kick their way to a World Cup!

legendkillarV2 wrote:I hope Brazil lose the dirty b***ards!!

Don't like teams who kick their way to a World Cup!

You got your wish, lk!

WTF result, it was madness. Seemed like half the tennis forum was over on that football thread too

reckoner wrote:

legendkillarV2 wrote:I hope Brazil lose the dirty b***ards!!

Don't like teams who kick their way to a World Cup!

You got your wish, lk!

Indeed I did.

And as for that halfwit Luiz crying at the end! What a lazy and unprofessional performance by a captain! Disgrace!

legendkillarV2 wrote:

reckoner wrote:

legendkillarV2 wrote:I hope Brazil lose the dirty b***ards!!

Don't like teams who kick their way to a World Cup!

You got your wish, lk!

Indeed I did.

And as for that halfwit Luiz crying at the end! What a lazy and unprofessional performance by a captain! Disgrace!

Yeah he was the pits. What a collapse, who do you fancy for NED v ARG?

reckoner wrote:

legendkillarV2 wrote:

reckoner wrote:

legendkillarV2 wrote:I hope Brazil lose the dirty b***ards!!

Don't like teams who kick their way to a World Cup!

You got your wish, lk!

Indeed I did.

And as for that halfwit Luiz crying at the end! What a lazy and unprofessional performance by a captain! Disgrace!

Yeah he was the pits. What a collapse, who do you fancy for NED v ARG?

I am hoping the Dutch will win as I have had a cheeky bet with my Dad that they will win it. He has bet Germany will

Yeah the Dutch would provide the best entertainment... hope you didn't bet too much!!