EURO 2012

Presuming Spain beat Ireland, Spain and Croatia can 2-2 Italy out of the tournament Denmark v Sweden style.

Not a good result for Italy

Not an entirely unexpected result either.

its cool guyz spain are gonna get long cox

So here we go, soon.

Presuming Spain beat Ireland, Spain and Croatia can 2-2 Italy out of the tournament Denmark v Sweden style.

― if, Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:56 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this right? If all 3 end on 5pts with none of them recording victories against the other then I thought it went to group g diff not head to head g diff? In which case it would depend on Italy's scoreline vs Ireland.

always enjoy the panning along & up & down the spanish team

oh it is goal diff btw the tied teams so that is correct

the whole countdown from 10 before kickoff is something completely new right? it feels kinda stupid

It is kinda stupid.

no kinda about it

TORRES!!!!!!!

Well.

Damn!

uh oh

This could be a long night for Ireland.

What a beauty!
NANDO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nando!

Straight through Given.

this will get embarrassing.

torres is gonna get me ff points out the wazoo

sweet torres type goal. kinda hope this is a real return to form for him.

feel bad for Given in this tournament so far but, y'know, I'm not Irish so

nope
xp

God I hope Spain annihilate Ire tonight

Ireland have been okay going frwd so far

THAT pass from iniesta to silva with THAT reception

yup
shame arbeloa isn't better on the ball cos he's in acres every time

ireland hanging on by bits of blu-tac right now. irish possession has been so wasteful too.

Keane coming back 40 yards to collect from the full back then pass to the keeper. What is the point?

(p sure I've made that exact post before)

is shay given really fit

not fit but u don't know it

wtf, my espn3 just switched from english to spanish for about 30sec and then back again

either that or macca was remembering his days in madrid

Given looks like he did all year for Villa. Sadly.

either that or a gk whose best feature was his reflexes is done at 36

easy for a shit gk to hide behind a terrible terrible team like villa (see also paul robinson)

The pass Spain want to play is always on

ref

haha aw

Robbie Keane - one of the stars of world football

"He was kept honest by Cox"

The first line of Drury's Irish football slash fiction

thought torres could've tried the chip there

It looked very inviting

didn't watch much la liga last season, jordi alba looks good so far this tourney.

how the hell is this only 1-0?

Robbie Keane - one of the stars of world football

― AlanSmithee, Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yes I enjoyed the ambiguous wording there

Piqué made his debut for Manchester United in October 2004, as a late replacement for John O'Shea in a 3–0 League Cup victory at Crewe Alexandra as a centre back.

I like this, you could sense the mantle passing that night

xp well apart from Torres' second chance early on Spain have tried to Arsenal it into the net somewhat

how the hell is this only 1-0?

because it's Spain, they have been scoring 1 goal per match for how many matches in a row now (EC/WC)

expect them to break the spell this match though

6 if they don't score again tonight

i love economy of effort

ugh ireland playing means they let tommy smyth out of the auld onion bag he lives in

Hahaha must you remind me of ESPN's own little leprechaun.

classy finish