EURO 2012

Maybe this has already been mentioned, and we are getting ahead of ourselves here, but if England and France (say) end up with identical records in this group, it comes down to the UEFA National Coefficients Table, and this seems to be the latest one:

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/General/01/69/56/52/1695652_DOWNLOAD.pdf

So England would get third?

HAHA

I see what you've done there.

"Agincourt, Waterloo and now Donetsk."

Uhhhhhhh, so that was England v. France at Waterloo was it? Don't know for sure, but I imagine there were also Scots at Agincourt... fighting for France.

I'm with (Big) Patrick (Vieira) in expressing astonishment that anyone would think this French side are anything special - they've got Florent Malouda in the side for a start - they look like a bunch of lightweights to me.

'i thought he would work at Chelsea and was quite disappointed by the way he faded out'

eh, I said this a year ago and you said'beginning to slow and not so much of a thread outside the box ... an overripe vanity purchase for abramovich.'

Well that turned out really good. I'm glad (apologies to sonderangerbot)

― Ismael Klata, den 11 juni 2012 22:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no worries, i'm happy for sheva too tbh. our defending on set pieces has been a joke for a long time and he did well to pick up on that. it's just that leading up to the euros there's been all this talk of a new confidence and a more attack-minded approach etc, and even if i knew this was all nonsense, i was at least hoping for little more than a sub-lagerbäck performance.

did you watch shevchenko in 05/06? he had become an rvn/inzaghi type of player, a lethal finisher (scored 4 vs galatasaray iirc) but was beginning to slow and not so much of a threat outside the box....rvn moved in the right direction that summer, sheva made an overripe vanity purchase for abramovich

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:15 PM (10 months ago)

there isn't a contradiction, £30m was an awful lot of money for a 30 year old forward with injury problems but he nonetheless ought to have been capable of scoring 15 epl goals a season for two or three years

he suddenly lost his lethal finishing which was quite inexplicable, and it was even worse when he moved back to milan

him moving back to milan was the saddest part of it all, had forgotten about that.

no goals in 18 serie a games

what are sweden going to do now btw? they need to do something, anyway

They need to beat England

Wee Gordon saying it took him two years to work out Sami's best position - and still he gets it wrong.

Greece: Chalkias, Torosidis, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Katsouranis, Holebas, Fotakis, Maniatis, Karagounis, Salpingidis, Samaras, Fortounis. Subs: Tzorvas, Tzavelas, Malezas, Makos, Liberopoulos, Mitroglou, Gekas, Ninis, Fetfatzidis, Sifakis.

Czech Republic: Cech, Gebre Selassie, Sivok, Kadlec, Limbersky, Hubschman, Plasil, Jiracek, Rosicky, Pilar, Baros. Subs: Lastuvka, Suchy, Hubnik, Necid, Rezek, Petrzela, Rajtoral, Kolar, Pekhart, Lafata, Darida, Drobny.

who should be subbed out first for ninis/fetfatzidis? samaras?

Nothing wrong with supporting your country but we now have ITV showing footage of Zlatan having his thigh strapped and saying "let's hope that's worse than it looks."

Fuck these clowns.

Obviously Salpingidis gets the start after Friday. Fortounis showed the odd evidence of ability last season for kaiserslautern tho it was hard to tell cos 'lautern were so wretched.

czech rep playing the DM Hubschman that they didn't bother with against Russia? I'd have thought he would have been more necessary in that game than this.

Stay classy ITV.
xp

They looked better once he came on though, iirc. xp

who should be subbed out first for ninis/fetfatzidis? samaras?

Depends how it's going - they may move Samaras out wide when it goes wrong rather than sub him off. He's never really a goal threat but on his game things kind of happen around him - that's why I disagree with Strachan, I'd never have him as the point man in attack (unless I was looking for a boring "Rangers away in Europe in 2008" type performance where I didn't necessarily want to score).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18409776 that wont end well

samaras is going to have to take care of gebre-selassie too, but hardly feel he is the man to pin him back

lovely

Why do people keep giving work to Craig Burley?

Goal! Time for that sub.

well boxall he just proved you right

slaughter

uh oh

rip

|Do Greece not bother with the first 15 mins of games?

"deficit reduction" omg fuck off itv

surprised champion/burley haven't given us "greeks bearing gifts" yet?

that LB area has been a horror zone for Greece so far this tourney.

There are fears of trouble during the march, given the historic rivalry between the two countries.

is it me or is "rivalry" not the best word to describe the historical relationship between Poland and Russia?

"Wouldn't you know it would 2-0 to the Checks over the Debtors."

and "bouncing checks"

new low for ITV really

skinned the ref.

Ha ha, took out the ref!

rosicky unimpressed

pretty amazing twitter coverage of budding riot between russian and polish fans here:

https://twitter.com/#!/JamieTreckerFOX

here too https://twitter.com/#!/BKBlick

yeah told you it wouldnt end well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18409776

Clashes have broken out in the Polish capital Warsaw as rival Russian and Polish football fans gather for a Euro 2012 match between the two teams.

Thousands of Russian fans staged a march to mark their national day and missiles were thrown.

greece will waste the rest of this half while they stick w/ this myopic heavy-footed charging

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jun/12/euro-2012-antonio-cassano-gays

"Queers in the national team? That's their business. But I hope not."

Ech, my dad's off to Warsaw on Friday for Russia's next game

Burley talking about someone's left arm being offside. Total fucking idiot.

Burley "if any part of your body that can score a goal is offside then your'e off..certainly his left arm was so technically he's off"

lol xp

It just struck me that Craig Burley was the last Scotsman to score in a major tournament finals.

Unless you count that Superbowl guy.

the last 'king ____ of scotland