EURO 2012

an italian faking?????????!!!!!?

ha, i know, but even by those standards he's the king.

ZM guy pointed out today that bad CBs = DMs camping deep = goalless tournament ahoy.

yeah he can be frustrating to watch. he's no pepe though. xp

joined the league too btw.

starting to think france will do well this year, they'll definitely walk the group stage and should manage italy in the qf.

who's this Polanski who's been selected in 36.3% of the fantasy teams?

mm barzagli-chiellini as a duo would probably be the tournament best, bonucci is the iffy one of the juve 3

eugen polanski, german dmc playing for poland who before the reality of his career sank in once said he'd support germany over poland

Euro 2012 was plunged into its first racism controversy after the black players in the Holland squad were subjected to monkey chants during an open practice session in the same city where England will also invite the public to watch them train on Friday.

Several hundred people targeted players such as Nigel de Jong and Gregory van der Wiel when 25,000 spectators attended the Dutch practice session at the Stadion Miejski, the home of Wisla Krakow.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jun/07/euro-2012-holland-racist-abuse

Wisla hooligans are amongst the worst. I'd hope that the practice matches had a higher percentage of ultras who'd turn up for anything and the proper matches have a more balanced, normal crowd.

I have a feeling this might be a bigger issue in Poland than Ukraine.

Man oh man I can't wait for this to start. Even though I won't be able to see games since the first ones start at midnight for me. Also, all of you picking France to do well in this tournament, i'll repeat what i said on the other thread iirc: you're all crazy. As much as I want to believe I still fully expect them to do something stupid, like maybe fight with each other on the pitch while the opposing team scores goals like there's no tomorrow. Or ben arfa menez and ribéry having an on-pitch contest to see who can keep the ball for longest without losing it/who will play the longest while refusing to pass the ball, ever.

who's this Polanski who's been selected in 36.3% of the fantasy teams?

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this will be thrown off by some players being rlly cheap sub options so ppl can try and fit in ronny, rvi and ozil or whatever

i only managed to fit two of those three :'(. paul mcshane, you're seemingly no polanski.

i am in this league. jelkino breus

http://i49.tinypic.com/35iugdx.jpg

Beautiful. I don't know why I always spend time designing the kit, I get nothing out of it. At least you can see it, unlike my carefully-selected avatar.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2012/06/08/3157385/xavi-mourinho-will-not-go-down-in-footballing-history

do you ever get the feeling this truce might not be 100% for realsies

"great set of lads though the madrid boys," he said balling his fists so tightly they bled

That's it, Muller has to start ahead of him

Mike Helms (via Facebook): Who would you like to swap places with, just for a day?

Götze: Justin Bieber. I mean there’s quite a lot of hype surrounding us players, but that’s small beer when you look at this guy. I’d just love to be in his shoes for a day, see what it’s like being on stage as a singer or actor.

That's the hubristic setup that was missing for a Spanish disaster here, good work Xavi

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Enjoy your holiday @rioferdy5 . Roy is gonna regret that decision. Licking John terry's salty balls. I hope he chokes on it.

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Just bcuz @rioferdy5 stood up 4 his brother that was racially abused by Mr JT. U disrespect d guy & drop him. Mr Roy shud shit & eat it

What, is Müller not starting? I've a fantasy team depends on him.

He'll be starting IK, don't worry.

Van Bommel OTM

When it was put to Van Bommel on Thursday that the chanting was a protest against Euro 2012 organisers, he said: "Open your ears. If you did hear it and don't want to hear it, that is even worse."

Muller's been a bit pony this year hasn't he? I'd worry about building a team around him.

i thought he had been dropped more because he was criticizing heynckes and the other players than for playing poorly

three goals and seven assists in the ten qualifying games

has the fantasy league site crashed for everyone?

never mind. i wouldn't dilly dally if you want to get a team in though.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/6/8/1339163180625/Philipp-Lahm-leaves-a-new-001.jpg

michael ballack as an analyst alongside alexi lolas? lol

Eh hold on, the early kickoffs are at five o'clock, not six? I'm not going to be home in time ffs.

Is that his expression upon hearing that Loew is considering Sven Bender at full-back?
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So stoked for this btw. Looking forward to the Piszczek/Kuba right wing axis this afternoon. Oh good an opening ceremony, at least it isn't 4 hours long.

12 minutes long apparently, ALL OF WHICH I WILL BE MISSING

There's a dj on a bedazzled gold shirt. And charlie adam in a tuxedo print tee shirt!

the pianist is now doing keepy uppys. i hope the london2012 opening ceremony has something that good to go with reanimated keith moon.

piano guy is rubbish at football

surprised Greece aren't starting that young Schalke CB Kyriakos, thought he was supposed to be excellent.

well his shirt has 'Adam' on the back. More LFC at the Euros#biggestclubineurope

but they said pianist used to play in one of the countries' national futsal team
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there are inflatable paddling pools on the pitch, which has been covered in a big tarpooling. and now they have organised people into a white six point star. could be an anti-jewish thing, commentary isn't letting on.

xxp yes he's raw but v physically imposing and used to playing against lewandowski, i'm surprised as well.

michel platters didn't look impressed.

greece are going to lose because of the austerity measures according to hansen

hasn't this ninis kid been the next big thing for a long time? i see he has joined palermo for next season.

looking forward to seeing ninis

the greek messi

glad to see Ninis is starting. ZM said he might just be an impact sub. never actually seen him tho

omfg my flatmate hasn't paid the internet bill which means i'm phone-tethering with not enough allowance to stream video. i'll kill um.

Sami time! A chance for the big man to infuriate on the big stage.