By Ollie Irish
Some players who have failed to live up to their billing thus far. NOTE: This list is based on the first round of group games.
Photos: PA
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good list, id try and squeeze in anelka or maybe henry but i guess theres a danger of being too france heavy!
casillas?????????????????????
Some of the players cannot take full blame for a poor team showing, eto was played out of position on the wing when he would have been much more effective through the middle and cahill was harshly sent off after ultametly carrying the aussie team. But I agree with the majority, danny, krasic, luis fabiano were poor..the frenchies in general were merde.
xavi.
and the german managerial staff for wearing dark cardigans with tan v-necks and generally being ingracious shites.
To Ollie, is it possible to somehow change the format of the photo section so that the whole site doesn’t refresh as we turn to a new page? Don’t know about anyone else, but it’s a bit annoying for me to refresh the whole page over just to scroll down again to view the next photo. Just a suggestion
@ Jason – I know it can be annoying and it’s not ideal, but in terms of Pies being a small site, we really do need the extra page impressions that our gallery format uses. Am looking into making it easier to use though. Soz!
Agree with Casillas, he was lucky to stay on with the Switzerland goal
@Ollie: why do you need page impressions? For adverts? If so just refresh the adverts for every photo as well. If it’s for statistics so you can compare cock sizes with other football websites, don’t you want to actually be on top of those on merit rather than cheating the system?
@Jason: open the image in a new window, then change the last letter in the url of the photo.
For instance, this is pienaar:
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/gallery/disappointing-players/pa-photos_t_top-20-disappointing-world-cup-players-1806a.jpg
so therefore second photo in the gallery is:
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/gallery/disappointing-players/pa-photos_t_top-20-disappointing-world-cup-players-1806b.jpg
and third:
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/gallery/disappointing-players/pa-photos_t_top-20-disappointing-world-cup-players-1806c.jpg
etc.
I would nominate the whole French team.
@ Sheps – All sites need impressions for ad revenue and currently this gallery system, as flawed as it is, is the best we have. I appreciate it can be frustrating having to scroll through photos, but we’re working on a more streamlined system.
Not a contest with other sites, at all. It’s more to do with me not being able to pay my rent if we don’t get the traffic. After all, Pies is an independent site that can’t compete with the big boys in terms of resources. Essentially, it’s just little old me (with sterling help from writers such as Chris, of course). But I take your point, believe me.
You forgot Ronaldo…I wish there was a jersey sales vs. actual performance measurement.
Di Maria = crap. finally someone gets it right. talk about hype.
Martin Jorgensen?! No way.
James Milner – yes.
you forgot the whole england starting xi…
rob green :) he got all the oil you were singing about it the stands on his gloves!! DTOM
Either way…these players one another are in the opposing team. if one does well then naturally the other will not. Though in this WC a lot of the stars are not performing.
How come Casillas is on the list but not Green????????
I’m surprised there no Dutchies there. I’m very critical of my team when the performance ain’t there. Robin Van Persie and Rafael Van Der Vaart easily belong on this list in my mind. They were simply crap against Denmark. And if it wasn’t for that marvelous through ball to Elia right at the end, Sneijder too can join the list IMO.
Less than an hour to go before we face Japan, let’s hope for a much, much better performance from this team that in fact has loads of quality.
Far too early for this.
Why is Sydney Govou in this list ? He’s not good enough to be in a local team let alone an international side, you can’t disappoint if there are no expectations of you in the first place. He truely is a terrible player.
i loved the games sofar
your site design is appalling.
i got to number 2 before deciding i didn’t want to wait for a page refresh everytime i wanted to see who was next on the list…
your point about impressions doesn’t make much sense, simply because no-one is going to hang around long enough to make an impression on the last few pages.
i can’t imagine a player like Rooney never scored any goal though he was the most treasured, what a dissapointment 4 England fans?????
What the hell?.
Villa?. I think he’s the best player of the world cup.
Where the hell is ronaldo?. He’s the worst player of the world
cup. 21 efforts on goal, 1 lucky goal. And most of his passes
weren’t completed. He’s shit, especially for the most expensive
player in the world
cool