poptimists | The Pop World Cup: Germany vs England

The Pop World cup group stage begins with a clash whose profile could not be higher: England v Germany. The tabloids have been talking about nothing else for weeks, since Germany's ground-out group stage wins and England's lucky Group B escape set them on a collision course. What have the managers chosen - and how do they justify it?

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Germany

Boney M - "Rasputin": Manager

sbp told us:
"Recipe for Pop:

Take four black kids off the street, encourage them, nuture them for a few years, and see what they come up with.

Or don't bother, write yourself a song about a mad clergyman's affair with the Empress of Russia in the dying days of Empire, in a Gypsy Disco Cossack stylee, get a gifted session singer to record them for you, recruit a guy and three gals to prance around on Top of the Pops miming to your song whilst wearing futuristic silver lame costumes, and get to number 2. Pure pop.

NB this formula is only good for one go - the Milli Vanilli episode wasn't pretty."

England

Sway - "Loose Woose": Gaffer

zenith had this to say: "In this week's episode of Footballers' Wives, Sway marries in haste only to repent at leisure when the tabloids dig up the dirt on his new boo, Pyrelli unwisely comparing himself to a geriatric wrestler in an attempt to impress the ladies, and Bigz confessing that sex with him doesn't last very long at all. What will those crazy, arguably-in-need-of-an-attitude-adjustment-where-women-are-concerned boys get up to next! Still, it can't be denied that the lads have done good here, in terms of beautiful flows over a juddering drum beat complete with stonking robot factory noises. The Sun says: NO (S)WAY CAN BRITS LO(O)SE."

So how is the match decided??

The knockout rounds work very much like the group stages, except now you get TEN points to divide between the two teams, and you don't have to give a team a point if you don't want to.

(PLEASE vote according to the relative strengths of the entries, though, not just pick the one you want to win and give it 10 automatically!)

The voting will be done by text poll - this is to keep the results secret. Please enter your scores as follows

"Germany - 5. England - 5"

Except with the "5"s replaced by your scores. If you want to vote but can't use the LJ poll, please email your scores to freakytrigger@gmail.com.

[Poll #691380]

Check back tomorrow for the half-time score.