Joined: Feb 20 2007 Posts: 10540 Location: Hunting Gopher
Unless Uruguay pull off a blinding comeback, I think I'm right in saying it'll be the first time a European team have won it on another continent. Brazil the only team to have won it outside of their own continent IIRC. Surely not coincidental that it's a winter tournament rather than the usual severe heat that's resulted in it.
carl_spackler wrote:Unless Uruguay pull off a blinding comeback, I think I'm right in saying it'll be the first time a European team have won it on another continent.
Correct
carl_spackler wrote:Brazil the only team to have won it outside of their own continent IIRC.
If you are being picky, not quite correct. Argentina in Mexico in 1986 won it in the CONCACAF region when being a CONMEBOL association.
Brazil, also CONMEBOL, have won in CONCACAF (twice), UEFA and AFC areas.
Move on, nothing to read here.
Talking rubbish at and over games for nearly 20 years
Joined: Aug 17 2003 Posts: 17226 Location: South Wales
Why didn't the ITV colour commentator speak at all during that match? I switched on late and didn't realise he was there at all until he blurted something out around the 60th minute, and he wasn't heard again. It was almost like listening to Dave Woods recorded commentary on the Super League Show, very surreal.
King Street Cat wrote:Some might look at this as being harsh but I think it's fair. When are the Rugby League going to stop persisting with this fantasy expansion. If it hasn't worked by now, it never will! I'm all for reaching out to a wider audience with our game but not at the expense of historical clubs in the homelands.
Joined: Mar 07 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Warrington
Who else was commentating?
Talking of a poorly done job, has anybody been watching SSN? Their translations of the press conferences sound awful, lots of pauses, not confidently spoken and a real 'static' sound in the background. It's like they've rang somebody up and recorded it on't loudspeaker.
headhunter wrote:Why didn't the ITV colour commentator speak at all during that match? I switched on late and didn't realise he was there at all until he blurted something out around the 60th minute, and he wasn't heard again. It was almost like listening to Dave Woods recorded commentary on the Super League Show, very surreal.
There wasn't a co-commentator, Beglin was taken ill before kick-off.
I'm sure Tyldesley was trying to speak in two different voices at times though, thankfully that's the last I'll have to hear from him.
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