06-19-2014, 04:29 PM
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#181
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Yeah, England is more like the Leafs. Havent done anything since the 60s, yet they are all everyone talks about.
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06-19-2014, 04:32 PM
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#182
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
Yeah, England is more like the Leafs. Havent done anything since the 60s, yet they are all everyone talks about.
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Yeah, it's totally bizarre that a country heavily settled by English ex-pats would be primarily interested in the English national team.
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06-19-2014, 04:33 PM
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#183
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Originally Posted by littlereddevil
England always know how to choke. Their name is synonymous with the Canucks.
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Choke? We were the underdogs.
GTFO!
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06-19-2014, 04:41 PM
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#184
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Holy...what a save.
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06-19-2014, 04:47 PM
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Pretty good game between Greece and Japan.
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06-19-2014, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
Yeah, England is more like the Leafs. Havent done anything since the 60s, yet they are all everyone talks about.
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Centre of the Universe syndrome.
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06-19-2014, 04:58 PM
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#187
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Barnet - North London
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Originally Posted by Igottago
England in the world cup is just comedic. How do you let Suarez loose that late in the game? Rooney played well I guess, so the press can't pin this on him.
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Rooney sucked donkeyballs.
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06-19-2014, 05:17 PM
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#188
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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, it's totally bizarre that a country heavily settled by English ex-pats would be primarily interested in the English national team.
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Lots of Portuguese, Italian, Croatian etc expats here too. I think it has more to do with the popularity of the EPL and the recognizable players.
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06-19-2014, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Japan has been so poor this tournament
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06-19-2014, 05:52 PM
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#190
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And Colombia is through!
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Johnny eats garbage and isn’t 100% committed.
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06-19-2014, 05:58 PM
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I don't see Japan or Greece winning their next games. I'm holding on to hope that Japan pulls off an upset over Colombia, but that's not likely to happen. I predict 2-0 Colombia, and 2-1 Ivory Coast over Greece.
Group D is still very much wide open (except for England, they blew it badly).
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06-19-2014, 06:11 PM
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England have allowed 6 shots on goal, lowest in the tournament
4 goals
Joe Hart!!!
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06-19-2014, 06:16 PM
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#193
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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
Lots of Portuguese, Italian, Croatian etc expats here too. I think it has more to do with the popularity of the EPL and the recognizable players.
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I think the 35% of Canadians who identify their 'ethnic origin' as English is the biggest factor
much higher than 4% who identify as Italian (Croatian and Portuguese were both lower than 2%)
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06-19-2014, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
England have allowed 6 shots on goal, lowest in the tournament
4 goals
Joe Hart!!!
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You're suggesting those two goals today were poor form from the goaltender? Maybe he could have had the first one, but it was a header going the opposite direction he was travelling. The second? That was a rocket.
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06-19-2014, 06:30 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Barnet - North London
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Where do you get that figure from? Also does it come from a single or combined response? Either way, I reckon your figure is too high for English identification and waaaaaaay to low for Italian identification.
But I guess it doesn't really matter because England suck big time.
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06-19-2014, 06:35 PM
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#196
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Originally Posted by nik-
You're suggesting those two goals today were poor form from the goaltender? Maybe he could have had the first one, but it was a header going the opposite direction he was travelling. The second? That was a rocket.
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I think the 1st was tougher, the 2nd was a great shot bus his position was bad
the 1st italian goal was iffy, the 2nd he had no chance on
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06-19-2014, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
Where do you get that figure from? Also does it come from a single or combined response? Either way, I reckon your figure is too high for English identification and waaaaaaay to low for Italian identification.
But I guess it doesn't really matter because England suck big time.
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2001 census so it's a little old, but I can't see much of a huge change
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"refers to the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors belong"
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06-19-2014, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
I think the 1st was tougher, the 2nd was a great shot bus his position was bad
the 1st italian goal was iffy, the 2nd he had no chance on
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The only way he was stopping that second goal, from that player, who was that alone, was pure luck.
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06-19-2014, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
I think the 35% of Canadians who identify their 'ethnic origin' as English is the biggest factor
much higher than 4% who identify as Italian (Croatian and Portuguese were both lower than 2%)
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Most of those are 4th or 5th generation Canadians though. But looking at the permanent resident stats it looks like the UK is by far the largest, so point conceded. Still annoying though. Much like Leaf talk.
I don't even like England and I can still probably name most of their starting 11 from every Euro or WC since 96.
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