EURO 2012

Maybe they are just giving you a minor tour of the greece's economic labyrinth?

twp seems notably less hateful these days, almost subdued, compared to terry he might as well be raoul wallenberg

i suppose you could cast aspersions on his open infelidities with whores, but then the unconscious implication that his bling-draped wife is no different is bitterly amusing

it's hardly his fault english hacks build him up as something beyond his actual talents

it's hardly his fault english hacks build him up as something beyond his actual talents

This applies to the entire England squad tho

yeah but twp seems notably less hubristic about it than the others

even when he had to be shoved out wide to accomodate ronaldo, he seemed to realize that that was a fair reflection on their relative talents

he doesn't seem as deluded as the rest of the golden generation, i don't remember him saying anything nearly as risible as gerrard claiming joe cole is better than messi

Wesley Sneijder has hit out at the "pathetic egos" inside the Holland squad as they prepare to face Germany on Wednesday night. The Dutch lost their opening game against Denmark and desperately need a result against one of the pre-tournament favourites if they are not to face an early exit.

But, as has happened so often in the past with the Dutch team, their preparations for an important game has been disrupted by disharmony in the squad and Sneijder has now voiced his displeasure with the situation. "It is time we let go of these pathetic egos," he said. "If somebody is creating a mess [within the squad], I will stand up against them.

thankfully wes 'give me £250k a week and a private plane' sneijder is there to sort out all of the egos

So the usually best informed journalists think Holland will play Kuyt instead of Afellay and see Matthijsen return at the back. The latter is obvious, but Kuyt... The logic would be that he can stop off Lahm better than Afellay. Which is true, but we also lose any creativity we had on the right wing. And no Huntelaar... Ffs.

i guess it's a case of "can't afford to lose, can maybe afford to draw"

just don't let robben take any penalties

NV, sad but true. While it should be "we want to fucking win".

Depends though, if Denmark draw with Portugal, Holland need a win.

No Huntelaar? Are they gek?

PORTUGAL: Rui Patricio; Joao Pereira, Bruno Alves, Pepe, Fabio Coentrao; Miguel Veloso, Joao Moutinho, Raul Meireles; Nani, Helder Postiga, Cristiano Ronaldo

DENMARK: Andersen; Jacobsen, Kjaer, Agger, S. Poulsen; Kvist, Zimling, Rommedahl, Eriksen, Krohn-Dehli; Bendtner

I feel like this portugal side should be really solid through the middle and exciting on the wings, but then there's helder postiga.

I always liked Hugo Almeida at Werder Bremen and it appears he's been scoring for Besiktas as well, they should give him a shot.

Read yesterday that the Oranje were using Kuyt at RB in training, as I believe was proposed for Liverpool in the past, with RVP left and KJH up top. But I'll trust LBI's sources.

Zimling has started well too. Shame he's had to go off.

zimling was one of their best players vs Holland too, not good

ugh

Pepe 1-0

nani looked like he was crying there?

Quite a bit of palming-in this tournament

glad to see pepe recover so quickly from blowing out his achilles

fuck off could the goalie have done better townsend. He had no fucking chance!

Glad you're glad xp

a miraculous recovery to be sure. Just call him lazu
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er lazurus. Tho lazu sounds like the missing frwd link for portugal by way of brazil

Tho Lazu = Danish left-back of Basque descent

so cynical

How the hell wasn't that a red card?

what'd he do? Missed it

great goal

Fantastic.

ah well RIP denmark

great striker, i've always said so

finish!

Meireles handball on ball over the top about 10 yards inside his own half. He had to jump to reach it to make the handball.

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postiga making me eat my words

Okay, what's the ideal result tonight to set up the last round? Dutch win would make Holland-Portugal pretty tasty.

thanks pandemic. was he preventing a goal scoring opportunity though?

long way out to be a clear goal scoring opportunity

well if holland win they've all got 3 pts. But I want Germany to win so that's my ideal result.

not clear cut tho the danish player probably would have got on the end of it, whether he would have controlled and shot before a covering defender got back is hard to say
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beauty

that was awesome

Very nicely worked. He always scores.

wonderfully done denmark!

love that goal
maligned strikers on fire

Hahah this match is turning out great! One more goal before the half?

sweet goal that. bendtner of all people!

has now scored in 5 out of 6 against portugal, so

that's bullshit stopping the game after portugal have had their attack imo

Haw haw, that cross positively dribbled across Postiga's patch, six yards out.

they could've kicked it out if they wanted too
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