Brazil vs North Korea [OFFICIAL THREAD]

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Kick off at 7:30pm.

Live on ITV1

Stadium - Ellis Park

[handbags_harris]

Brazil 7-0 North Korea.

[leww_rfc]

Brazil 7-0 North Korea.

'greed after seeing some of N.Korea's training methods.

i'll go for 5-0 though.

[Row Z Royal]

0-1

[NR_Royal]

Brazil 8-0 N.Korea.

A right raping.

[Big Foot]

Brazil 3-0 N Korea

N Korea's communist economy to collapse in mad panic

[hiro]

Whatever the result may be, watch out for CHONG Tese.
Dynamic striker who can be a candidate to play in Europe after World Cup.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Be brilliant if North Korea did win though...!

[Maguire]

3-0 Brazil

[cmonurz]

5-0, North Korean state TV to have one hell of a job editing the match to show Korean 'highlights'.

[havoc]

0-0


Surprise result of the tournament. Lot of people doing the £10 betfair challenge going to come unstuck tonight

[southbank1871]

4-0

[soggy biscuit]

Brazil 6-0 North Korea

We should really be betting on how many North Koreans will do a runner from the training camp and claim asylum

[The Surgeon of Crowthorne]

Brazil 3 - 0 North Korea

TV coverage to start with stock footage of beach football with a Santana soundtrack.

Match coverage to include shots of fit young women in the crowd not wearing very much and dancing around.

[ScottishRoyal]

We should really be betting on how many North Koreans will do a runner from the training camp and claim asylum

Maybe that's why they're training behind barbed wire fences...

I all seriousness i'm sure the North Koreans will feel under a great deal of pressure, after all North Korea rarely gets the oppotunity to exhibit itself on the world stage oan deluded or not (ok, very deluded) they're a proud nation that believe their own hype and spin. Consequently pressures may be exerted from above to succeed.

This has happened before. Everybody remembers the 1974 Brazil vs Zaire match where Brazil were stopped from taking a free kick when a Zaire defender infamously sprintted out of a defensive wall to punt the ball up the pitch. I, like everyone else I suspect, laughed when I first saw this but an article I read this week has changed my view of this.

Following losses to Scotland and Yugoslavia, the despotic President Mobutu, Zaire's leader at the time, decided to intervene directly in the team's affairs. After the teams second group match loss, Mobutu sent his presidential guards to threaten the players. They reportedly closed the team hotel to all journalists and said that if the team lost 0-4 to Brazil in their final grop game then none of the players would be able to return home, and that their families would endure long and painful deaths.

At the time of the Brazilian free kick, whcih was a clear goalscoring oppotunity, Zaire were already 3-0 down. With the context of the threats they faced it's no wonder one man lost it momentarily.

[cmonurz]

We should really be betting on how many North Koreans will do a runner from the training camp and claim asylum

Maybe that's why they're training behind barbed wire fences...

I all seriousness i'm sure the North Koreans will feel under a great deal of pressure, after all North Korea rarely gets the oppotunity to exhibit itself on the world stage oan deluded or not (ok, very deluded) they're a proud nation that believe their own hype and spin. Consequently pressures may be exerted from above to succeed.

This has happened before. Everybody remembers the 1974 Brazil vs Zaire match where Brazil were stopped from taking a free kick when a Zaire defender infamously sprintted out of a defensive wall to punt the ball up the pitch. I, like everyone else I suspect, laughed when I first saw this but an article I read this week has changed my view of this.

Following losses to Scotland and Yugoslavia, the despotic President Mobutu, Zaire's leader at the time, decided to intervene directly in the team's affairs. After the teams second group match loss, Mobutu sent his presidential guards to threaten the players. They reportedly closed the team hotel to all journalists and said that if the team lost 0-4 to Brazil in their final grop game then none of the players would be able to return home, and that their families would endure long and painful deaths.

At the time of the Brazilian free kick, whcih was a clear goalscoring oppotunity, Zaire were already 3-0 down. With the context of the threats they faced it's no wonder one man lost it momentarily.

Certainly puts a different perspective on that footage!

[3 veesinarow]

6-1 to Brazil, but...

North Korean government to claim that glorious comrade leader Kim Jong-il himself played in all 11 positions, scored a glorious double hat-trick and that the Brazilian consolation goal was clearly offside....

...and for all North Koreans to blindly believe it as the only truth.

[1960]

I feel a bit sorry for the N Korean players. They have been chosen as skilled practitioners of their art, but now they are stuffed. If they had not qualified they would have been "diasappeared" by now, but now they are even more high profile. The whole world is watching, not just SE Asia. And when they crash out, probably with no points, they will go home to public disgrace (and probably execution). It seems to me that their only chances are either to miraculously copy thie predecessors or to do a runner for asylum, as mentioned above.

[Thaumagurist*]

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[Baines]

I like Brazil, but want N.K to win...let's just say the it's the typical support for the unfancied underdogs.

*tips hat*

This works on many levels.