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secondhand_rick triumphant
Jul. 10th, 2006 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
undyingkingWell done secondhand_rick on winning the World Cup predictions league! -- just edging out Felix NOLJ. Thanks to everyone who took part!
It was pretty good fun, although the game's design meant that the life kind of got sucked out of it a bit in the later stages when it was no longer possible for most of the players to score any more points. Much like the real thing in some ways, then...
I'm as big an admirer of quality defending as anyone, but seeing so many matches in which a lone striker is efficiently snuffed out time after time until someone gets lucky at a set-piece / tired enough to make a mistake / it goes to penalties is not really much of a spectacle. Am I right to think that Germany were the only team in the last eight who played two up front?
secondhand_rick on winning the World Cup predictions league! -- just edging out Felix NOLJ. Thanks to everyone who took part!It was pretty good fun, although the game's design meant that the life kind of got sucked out of it a bit in the later stages when it was no longer possible for most of the players to score any more points. Much like the real thing in some ways, then...
I'm as big an admirer of quality defending as anyone, but seeing so many matches in which a lone striker is efficiently snuffed out time after time until someone gets lucky at a set-piece / tired enough to make a mistake / it goes to penalties is not really much of a spectacle. Am I right to think that Germany were the only team in the last eight who played two up front?
