EURO 2012

ref is waste

woof nice one neuer.

am i miles behind everyone again.

neuer is good at 'making himself big' which is what happens when a large goalkeeper extends their arms

Which way are the teams kicking?

the PA guy is RAGING at this point

Ronaldo's new do is good too while we're on hair.

wow great block

lol at Badstuber fist-pumping cos Varela's shot hit his arse

he changed it at half time i think xp

Really impressed with Portugal, I didn't think they'd be at the races tonight

finally i get some ultraviolence from alves.

alves even has the ominous dry ice to signal his evil.

This is still a v. interesting group. Oddly, I can see Holland getting summat out of Germany, and I think Denmark will struggle if Portugal defend like they did tonight.

ozil muller gotze and kroos llp

It's 3 - 3 in the Argentina - Brazil game now

Germany tore Holland apart in a recent friendly

nothing interesting is ever going to be said about germany or its people by someone starting 'the germans...'

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, April 9, 2012 1:29 PM (2 months ago)

The Germans tore the Dutch apart in a recent friendly

you don't have to rub it in twice!

(i can see a crazy 3-3 happening, but I don't think that'll help us much)

Have now turned over to Arg-Brazil. Amazed by how clean their shirts are. Seriously, it's stunning.

HOLY FUCK MESSI

AMAZING

ey u no furriners in here.

Ffs five seconds too late

so... what did he do?

Honest to God after that goal I may never be able to tolerate watching Thomas Muller ever again.

xp - he ran and he ran and he ran and then he smashed it and it was amazing

ya that sounds like him.

Ech, I'm not going to be able to find a repeat. Someone be a good lad & post highlights when they come up please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHpK48Qrc0I

yerra good lad, ismael. what's with the thick stripes in that argentina kit, it's v off.

ffs i was supposed to have gone out 45 minutes ago.

his 82nd of the season

do argentina have any other games before the season is officially over? let's have a game against st kitts and nevis or someone so he can reach the magic 100.

Scotland might still be in the US

:(.

(when registering for the uefa fantasy football, having to set my location as 'england' really brought some things home. i'm not in england i'm in london ffs, maybe 1/3 of the people i know are english.)

You should've just lied and picked Kerguelen or somewhere. You'd massively increase your chances in the national league that way to boot.

Anyway England's great and London's in England, and England are gonna be on dis ting, no need to get all weepy about it.

GolTV is showing a replay of Arg/Brazil at 3:30 Eastern time tomorrow fwiw

http://www.gsoranje.nl/archives/images/neddenklungel.gif

we could have had a 100 strikers and for some reason none of them would have finished off that brilliant pass.

Also lol Szczesny.

And now LOL Van Persie too

i fully expected poldolski to finish a couple of his chances, too. maybe not quite to lol category.

The England v France game will be about 75 minutes of Koscielny and Walcott falling over one another.

re: gif mizzell posted - goalie deserves yellow for that overacting rolling around + grabbing his head job, imo.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/09/article-2156976-13878A91000005DC-372_634x400.jpg

A picture says more etc.

How do the Dutch media react to such things?

Not good :)

It was just sub-par, a huge disappointment. What irks the press (and myself) even more is that Van Marwijk refuses to say it was bad. They are all holding up the "we played really good, but if you don't score..." story. Which is sticking your head in the sand imo.

Van Bommel was invisible. Heitinga and Vlaar seemed scared to build up properly which lead to Nigel de Jong constantly having to be a mailman (pick up the ball and bring it forward). Robben was shite, made the wrong decisions.
Van Persie getting the most flack though. The whole Huntelaar vs. Van Persie debate loomed over the tournament already before it started and only intensifies now. Playing with both of them has never really worked.

The only plusses were for Sneijder, who played a great second half, and Willems, who did a great job for an 18 year old and youngest Euro player ever.

I think Van Marwijk will stick to his guns though and will play Van Persie again. Not that it really matters who's our striker now, the whole team just is too weak.

Ouch. I take it nobody's got much hope of a win over Germany? Because they looked beatable last night I thought.

¡ Casillas; Arbeloa, Ramos, Pique, Alba; Alonso, Busquets; Silva, Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas !

If we have so much trouble with a poor Denmark already, I don't think there's much to be optimistic about against a Germany with Ozil, Schweini, Muller, Podolski and Gomez. Germany weren't all that good though, so many errors. But they seem to actually *win* even when bad. That's a big difference with Holland.

But one never knows, maybe they'll surprise us (in 1988 Holland lost the first game against Russia and won the tournament). But somehow I can't see that happening this time.

There is a theoretic chance Holland can still progress even if they lose to Germany btw. Then Portugal has to win from Denmark, and in the last round Germany should beat Denmark and Holland should win from Portugal. Then Holland/Portugal/Denmark all have 3 points and it will come down to goal diff.