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July 14, 2014 9:47am by David Farrar

Germany wins

A great goal with a few minutes to go in extra time.

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Pete George

Argentina had their share of chances and couldn’t get one home.

One play of dual brilliance was the difference. Two replacement players versus about half a dozen Argentinian defenders, one set things up perfectly and a very good finish by Goetze.

That’s football, games can often swing either way on one play.

The two best teams made the final and there won’t be any argument about German deserving the win on the day.
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July 14, 2014 10:00am
igm

Teach Argentina a lesson for greasing to Putin!
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July 14, 2014 10:03am
David Garrett

PG: Crikey! there is no limit to the number of things you are expert in! You need to make your talents available more widely than South Dunedin…
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July 14, 2014 10:09am
flipper

Good…. in fact, excellent.

And now we can get back to matters that are really of interest to New Zealand.
🙂
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July 14, 2014 10:16am
Pete George

DG: crikey, there is no limit to the number of ways you try and get in cheap shots, but again your claims are screwy.
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July 14, 2014 10:17am
Manolo

Arrrrggggghhhhhh!
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July 14, 2014 10:22am
David Garrett

How so PG? Is it North Dunedin you live in? It’s not quite my local village, so I suppose there are recognised “ends” of the God forsaken burgh..
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July 14, 2014 10:24am
stephieboy

Manolo, you must of found the ” darkies” present in both sides rather disturbing.?

At first I thought Germany were suffering from a lack of good preparation with the easy peasy win over Brazil but give credit it’s due .They prevailed in the end with a super goal.!
Very tense and close final thank goodness and not the cake walk for Germany as some predicted.
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July 14, 2014 10:32am
Pete George

South Dunedin is a small part of the Dunedin South electorate. I’m in the Dunedin North electorate but nowhere near the North Dunedin suburb.

But that’s totally off-topic here, isn’t it. But that obviously doesn’t deter you from using it as an excuse to be petty.
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July 14, 2014 10:34am
Manolo

@stephieboy: Are you stupid as well? How could I hate “darkies”, being one myself? 🙂
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July 14, 2014 10:40am
Manolo

P.G., Have you decided to stand for UnitedFuture again or will it be Labour this time round?

I reckon you should go independent. It will give you more votes as candidate of the anti-rape, anti-male brigade. Should be a shoe in, mate..
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July 14, 2014 10:42am
eszett

Great game, very intense and exciting. Well deserved. Anyone who can shoot 7 goals against Brazil deserves the title.
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July 14, 2014 11:04am
Jinky

Just off to TAB to collect my winnings. Put $10 on Germany 2 weeks ago. Ever since I went to the ’74 World Cup following Scotland I’ve had a soft spot for the Germans.
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July 14, 2014 11:16am
Pete George

@Manolo: are you stupid as well? Either stupidly ignorant or stupidly niggly? You either making things up about others or support your mate Colin.
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July 14, 2014 11:17am
s.russell

Terrific save! … from another stupid penalty shootout.
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July 14, 2014 11:21am
JMS

Imagine how glorious it must feel to be the first side from Europe to win it in South America.

In Brazil, in Rio!
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July 14, 2014 11:21am
Tarquin North

Hell party in Coatsville. Wonder how many friends will get payed to be there?
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July 14, 2014 11:35am
MT_Tinman

Picked the number of goals, picked when that goal would be scored, missed out on the biggie.

Bugger!
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July 14, 2014 12:12pm
cricko

Jeez, Pete George are your piles playing up today ?

Lighten up a bit mate.

You started off well @10.00 but then lost it, learn to take a joke.
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July 14, 2014 2:10pm
Scott Chris

Manolo (13,233 comments) says:
July 14th, 2014 at 10:22 am
Arrrrggggghhhhhh!

Arrrrggggggentina!

Well done Germany. Precise efficient football.
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July 14, 2014 2:21pm
noskire

Organised the office sweepstake. Prizes included winner and team that scored the most goals. Drew Germany. No longer allowed to organise office sweepstakes.
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July 14, 2014 5:37pm
James Stephenson

Like the boy Line-acre said “Football is a simple game, 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end of it, Germany always win.”

Totally deserved, the best *team* at the tournament by a country mile. They do what no other team in the world seems able to do, and that’s to pick the best player for each position for the way they want to play, rather than an England-style attempt to accomodate the “best” 11 players into some sort of workable system.
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July 14, 2014 5:43pm
Pete George

Just watched the highlights again. While Mario Goetze deserves praise for finishing off like no other player was able to do the contribution of Andre Schurrle is right up there as well, he made the break and dropped the cross right on target.

Appropriately for the way Germany played it was a joint effort, while Argentina seemed to hope Messi would pull of a mono miracle.
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July 14, 2014 6:46pm
soundhill1

Follow the countries spraying less pesticide and eating less GMO food/feed over the years?
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July 15, 2014 9:36am
Left Right and Centre

The better economy won on the day – hahahahahaha

(I had my own goal of finishing my well-prepared provisions by fulltime. You can’t plan around extra-time so I had to hurry up and down everything before my window of feast excuse opportunity closed. What a good problem – too many treat options and time running out – oh yeah !! And then there was extra time – all I had left was normal food – although delicious – bugger).

What a fairytale finish for Germany . . . Hollywood ending.

After something like that ends it’s horrible adjusting back to the old pointless futile wait for oblivion.
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July 15, 2014 10:56am
mikenmild

LRC
Maybe you will be waiting with bated breath for the Commonwealth Games.
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