EURO 2012

Whenever I see Rooney I think of

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/159/420656494_9e7df1a5d0.jpg

i think that was yr archetypal "two teams frightened to lose with limited resources at their disposal" match

man that was deadful

dreadful but made me feel dead

and yet still one of the better England tournament performances of the last decade :\

Most valuable fact I got from the Dutch commentary: Theo Walcott writes children's books and has published four already. Had no idea o_O

lol nv youre right

LBI i've took the piss out of the books Theo's "written" on one of the Prem threads in the past i think

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01444/SNN2709BOOK-_1444101a.jpg

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I've seen 'em LBI. They're not great.

tbf i thought the first half was good, the second was miserable. i think some combination of welbeck, ox, young, henderson, wilshere, cleverly etc could combine england's first nice passing move in 2014

lol

lol but true

sorry MW but anything I felt towards Macca at the end has been replaced by white-hot loathing of Alexi Lalas being argumentative with Ballack & Martinez when both were criticizing England's tactics

srsly i'd watch the half hour i missed on ITV+1 but i'm not that much of a masochist

Dunno how England can be dissatisfied with that really, but I'd worry about the Ukraine game. Was a bit like a mediocre Premiership game.

Neither team is getting beyond the second round.

Well done woy: organised, but grim and unexciting.

we've got "international" class players who can't trap a ball without it bouncing a yard off them tbf, options was limited

no lie tho, one of the better performances from Gerrard in an England jersey, at least until i fell asleep

Neither team is getting beyond the second round.

But Roo is coming back! :-)

duh duh
duh duh duh duh

Was a bit like a mediocre Premiership game

I dread to think what England-Sweden will look like

Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Monday, June 11, 2012 8:13 PM (7 minutes ago)

Kudos

that is a p bad display name

Ukraine: Pyatov, Gusev, Mykhalyk, Khacheridi, Selin, Yarmolenko, Tymoschuk, Konoplianka, Nazarenko, Voronin, Shevchenko. Subs: Koval, Kucher, Garmash, Aliev, Shevchuk, Rakitskiy, Butko, Goryainov.

Sweden: Isaksson, Lustig, Mellberg, Granqvist, Martin Olsson, Elm, Kallstrom, Larsson, Ibrahimovic, Toivonen, Rosenberg. Subs: Wiland, Svensson, Jonas Olsson, Antonsson, Wernbloom, Safari, Holmen, Hansson.

voronin is so so bad, oleh blokhin is literally worse than radioactive swamps of pripyat

by white-hot loathing of Alexi Lalas being

Mind you, I don't mind Macca nor Ballack but my hatred of Lalas borders on irrational. His self-assessment and my assessment of him differ by miles and he never fails to be a smug dick about stuff esp when he's clearly wring or talking out his ass. At least Wynalda's kind of funny.

no elmander no cred

Elmander ain't fit yet, no?

makes me sad to see a larsson on the team sheet but not THE Larsson.

elmander has some minor problem

no guidetti but guidetti has a terrible accent and looks like a bloater so who knows

Is Zlatan CF or #10 playmaker tonight? Or both?

#10 and supposedly it works better that way

that's what michael o

michael cox

says

Hansen not convinced by zlatan. Thought it was all about medals Alan?

Shevchenko is a nice guy though

Anyone not convinced by Zlatan hasn't been paying attention to football outside England for a decade. Oh wait.

In the fall of 2007, Ibrahimović, with the help of Nike, self-funded Zlatan Court in the streets of the city district Rosengård in his hometown Malmö: he provided a playing mat, goalposts, lighting, and a modern fence.

are they playing 2010 era sixth form faves the xx

i think they are

that modern fence in all its glory

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/Images/media_copied/2007/10/03/ART-INLINE-0-384-zlatan2_95930a.jpg

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sport/zlatan-besoker-rosengard/

wow Jonathan Pearce is talking a lot of bollocks, even by his bollocks-heavy standards

played the xx before the last game too. Might be a thing

OMG Love the Swedish Kit!

sashed kits are the best

peru, juventus away the other year, usa! usa! usa! the other year, some others icrc

river plate obv

city away

I had a lovely sashed Inter 1994 away and my wife ironed the collar off it :(

spain away for this tourney has half a sash