World Cup Adverts - Search and Destroy (But Mostly Destroy)

Ha ha Tom is just bitter cos he wasn't chosen to be on those ones about footballitis as a boffin. So everyone must say how much they love those.

I particularly despise the pizza flavour Doritos Friendchips one where the blokes are watching footie and call the girl in the kitchen to get her to bring them crisps. Wankers.

"Footballitis" the message here is that footballers like football. Well duh.

I think the Lord every morning and every evening that I was not chosen to be on the Footballitis adverts and they are my favourites for precisely that reason.

I hate that Elvis track.

My least favourite currently is the animated coca-cola one where the freaky boy and his mole score the winning goal. It really infuriates me and I can't quite pin down why.

i love that one, but can't work out why. probably for the way it's animated and the fact he's got three legs. everytime i see i think 'haha! he's got three legs!'. simple things, etc

That ad makes me feel nauseous and I can't work out why.

There's clearly some subliminal message in it which is affecting us all.

i find that one frustrating becuz by tradition that mode of animation is used on gaunt fables with bad endings (viz pied piper of hamlyn), and this one has a good ending

That Coke advert manages to make "Bingo Bango" seem even more annoying than usual.

The problem with the Nike advert: of the final six players, let's look at the great world cup's they've had.

Thierry Henry: sent off, eliminated first round.
Luis Figo: eliminated first round
Francesco Totti: widely blamed by the Italians for the elimination, now one of the most hated men in Italian football. Eliminated second round.
Hidetoshi Nakata: didn't even make the first team, eliminated second round.
So it's just the Brazillians left. Way to cast guys.

Anyone care to suggest some new messages Totti might have in his car post Tuesday?

Totti's got a prominent place in one of those BBC adverts done in the style of Japanese cartoons too.

mark - that scary drawing style emphasizes the hardship of growing up with three legs in a two-legged world

the Pepsi one with the Sumo wrestlers and David Beckham is pretty crap

Indirectly related to football but still hugely annoying - Va Va Voom Renault ad. Even the you-backed-a-loser gloating has now worn off.

I have never seen this alleged coke advert unless I have and it has subliminally made me forget it.

The one where Jamie Oliver makes Sven a fry up. Argh.

"Cirio, due cento cassete".

Jog your memory, Emma.

Not strictly a world cup advert but wheeled out because it's football related - The Red Bull Advert.
The one where he goes "We're 5 nil down at half time and you're our star international striker, what are you going to do?"
Well if you are 5 nil down it's not the flippin' strikers problem is it?
Grrrrr........

Totti in that very strange Fiat ad...when he gets a message from Emile Heskey saying "You were miles off-side"...Are Totti and Heskey friends? I don't like being lied to. Oh, and the voice over is also tres lame.

i think this one has been eluded to, but it needs to be implicit.

Destroy: the Lucozade sports drink one w/ the 'zany' Irish football coach and Michael Owen. "It's not a three piece suit" GRRRRRRRRRRRR

i like Simeon's answer because it is the most pedantic, but i also hate all Red Bull adverts so i'll go with that one.

I have only seen the Fiat one jel mentions once. Truly it is a peculiar advert.

i think this one has been eluded to, but it needs to be implicit.

Is this a Jadeism or a Jelism?

yes, Nick that was a definite Jelism.

Oh yes Tom in fact I have seen it but my footie filter has been super efficient at making me stop paying proper attention when footie related ads come on now. I cannot remember it properly even after that reminder.

Michael Owen is sort of a poor man's David Beckham in the advertising world...he's done Sporties and Lucazade.

Though, I do quite like that beer ad where they are doing fancy keepie uppies and then the guy they pass it to just kicks it onto a roof. I admire his attitude.

However, it's not a great ad, as I can't remember what beer it is advertising.

BWAHA Jel it is John Smiths and that man is COMIC GENIUS PETER KAYE! ooh i love peter kaye. this is now my favourite ad (though i am not going to buy any john smiths so nyaagh)

That Fiat ad gets more incomprensible the more I think about it. Why is Emile Heskey stalking Totti?

also peter kaye sweeps aside the half-time oranges in an amusing way

Dom it's not Bingo Bango on the Coke ad so it obviously doesn't annoy you too much if you can't remember what it sounds like.

The ads are shit this year. What happened Nike? Junkie XL Vs Elvis is the worst big selling single of the year, it sounds like a terrible Fatboy Slim song from 1997 or something. And the ad is crap too compared to when the team played in Hell or the Brazilians causing mayhem at Charles De Gaulles.

I like the one where the Duracell bunnies are having a match and they get a free kick and the opposition's wall falls down backwards because their batteries have run out.

This is how we will beat the Brazilians tomorrow.

I despise, utterly and totally, the Hyundai advert.

It states that Hyundai are as excited about the World Cup as I am.

Really? Brushing aside the issue of whether a corporate entity can have feelings, I sincerely doubt whether they are unable to sleep with excitment, and are full of the wide-eyed wonder of a child on Christmas morning about the whole thing. Do they sing songs to themselves in the mirror every morning regarding the world cup? Do they imagine playing for England in the final? I think not on all counts.

They are therefore lying like a cheap watch, and if I had need of a car, they would be slightly below the manufacturers of Fred Flinstone's vehicle.

I was interviewed by a programme to be broadcast on BBC1 on Monday about this, where I make much the saem point. Stardom! Mwah! Mwah!

I assumed that the Fiat ad was something they could modify for other European countries, ie. it is Emile Heskey here, but Trezeguet in France or Mendieta in Spain whose name appears on Totti's daft car message screen thing.

i thort the cola ad music was "baddest roughest" by backyard dogg. and i heart the ad animation -- it is the same guy that did supermen lovers video. i mention this every opportunity i get. so thanks tom for starting the thread. how many ads has sven done then?

The other day I heard him on Classic FM saying 'Hello, I'm Sven Goran Erikson and I like to listen to classical music quite a lot'.

Well of course he does otherwise he wouldn't have been able to put together a classical compilation CD would be?

I feel bad that I spelled the England manager's name wrong. Sven Goran Eriksson. There. I'm getting superstitious.

A surprisingly hard-to-find one if my attempts last Sunday are anything to go by. I got my Dad a bottle of whisky for his birthday instead which I'm sure he preferred to Sven's calming-yet- motivational sounds.

Having just seen it again, I vote unreservedly for the Norwich Union advert - in this exciting installment, the 'wry but happy' family with the freaky talking infants are at a kickabout in the park. Alan Hanson is also in it. I hate it. So much.

"My least favourite currently is the animated coca-cola one where the freaky boy and his mole score the winning goal. It really infuriates me and I can't quite pin down why"

Yes yes yes. Unpalatable subliminal message = to avoid ridicule and be successful YOU MUST CONFORM.

Best footie ad ever is the guy who kicks the Jack Russell into the bus shelter wall. A satisying mixture of savagery and artistry.

All the ads during World Cup matches here have been weird and European, i.e. everyone's either about to have sex with each other or buy each other fashionable clothes.

The best? The one for Nikesoccer.com: Various players compete in a steel cage match, with the audience getting hot and bothered. The score is pretty even, til one launches off of another player's back, pulls a "Michael Jordan" and scores the winning goal.