Association football (soccer)

I'll probably end up cheering for Belgium, they're not my home country but I've gone there a couple of times and the people are always very nice. Plus they have a lot of quality players like Kompany and Hazard (Who I also like). I'll keep my fingers crossed for England but I don't think we'll even get out the group from the looks of things.

I think England will surprise a lot of people this summer.

Brazil with home advantage (and referees on their side if the Confed Cup was anything to go by) should win it.

But my dream scenario would be Spain beating them in the final with a Diego Costa 90' minute winner, just to see the absolute shitstorm that would follow.

Portugal! And I'm a Pepe fan.....,said no one ever!

Here are groups if never posted.

My picks to come out of each group
A:Brazil and Croatia
B:Spain and Netherlands (so hard cause never know what Chile will bring)
C:Greece and Japan (I really don't think Japan will come, most likely one of other two but liked to see them make it through)
D:England and Italy (Italy just always knows how to win in big tournaments and wanted to choose Uruguay but Suarez just had knee surgery so you just wonder)
E:France and Honduras
F:Argentina and Bosina/Her.
G:Germany and Portugal (I want USA to win but really expect them to beat 2 of top teams in the world?)
H:Belgium and Russia

Group A: Brazil & Mexico
Group B: Spain & Chile
Group C: Ivory Coast & Columbia
Group D: Italy & England
Group E: France & Honduras
Group F: Argentina & Nigeria
Group G: Germany & Portugal
Group H: Russia & Belgium

A: Brazil & Croatia
B: Spain & Netherlands
C: Ivory Coast & Columbia
D: Italy & Uruguay
E: France & Switzerland
F: Argentina & Bosnia/Herz.
G: Germany & Portugal
H: Belgium & Russia

OH MY GOD!! So wrong, so wrong!! Real Madrid was NOT supposed to win the Champions League, this was supposed to be Atletico Madrids year!

But just goes to show you that the game is never over until the ref whistles, Ramos scoring on the 90+3 minute to make the game 1 - 1, and then on the over time Real Madrid scores 3 more times.

We'll at least we don't have to hear about La Decima anymore. Still, I would have preferred Atletico to win :(

Oh it's a normal thing in life, winner gets it all nowadays. But think about it, they beat Bayern, Dortmund, Juventus, Galatasaray to get there. To say they didn't deserve it after 90minutes of Ronaldo trying to wind Juanfran up, Bale trying to hit it on target, and Varane and Ramos keeping the back clean, Di Maria and Modric putting up a performance of their career, and Marcelo and Carvajal wonderful contributions, is a grave unfair judgement. (Huh @Coconut?) how about Atletico with the lucky goal because of Casillas mistake? Anyway, Hala Madrid!!!

If Casillas made a mistake, how is the goal 'lucky' then?

Ah, just mindless little reasons to why Atletico didn't deserve it. Just like how people are saying Real didn't deserve it because of money, "lucky" Ramos goal (That one didn't involve the opposite goalkeeper handing Real a free goal), "lucky" Bale header,.....

Yeah, shame they won La Décima 7 days later. (Just for a jocular comeback, no mean intent man)

In my oppinion it should be pretty obvies that in these type of situations people obviesly give biased asnwers and oppinions. Yes, my oppinion of Atletico deserving to win more is 100% biased because i like them more than i do Real Madrid, and i did not give any stupid excuses like "lucky" goals by the other side as reasons as to why the other team won. I was simply 'venting' my oppinion about the issue, and i do respect Real Madrid as a football team, it is one the best teams after all in the world, but i personally dislike them.

Who ever wins, deserves to win.

*pat on the back* Well said my man! Now let's play the affiliation game, I'm a speed-whore (Ronaldo, Bale, Walcott, Kyle Walker, Alaba, Real Madrid, last season Bayern, and Dortmund,....), a "plastic fan" as they call it, and a money hoarder (It makes the world spins). What's your game?

I didn't dismiss the league, it was a comeback of a jocular fashion my friend. Your statement of Real losing the league to Atletico didn't serve anything for the fact that they still deserve to win the Champions League (Probably have been for four years now) so I took a jab at a joke. But if you want to be serious, winning by not so much of a margin isn't the most dominant league run either.

I was wondering what everyone's biggest snubs were? I mean who should have been picked for their national team but didn't.

I think 3 names that come to my mind are:
Donovan -USA- how can you not take a guy still in form and maybe the best USA forward to play?
Isco -Spain- played well this year at Real. I can understand it slightly after all that Spain team is still stacked.
Nasari -France- he still really good and can make plays. My only guess is cause he was sort of a problem at Euro a few years ago is what cost him.