EURO 2012

This has been good. Pilař is a promising young Czech player, they don't come around often.

It looked awful, but was actually quite hard the way his balance was

Bet he gets it right this time, Obraniak.

Poland need to score soon, this dominance can't last

this has been good so far. its mostly been in greece's half, kerz had a nice half volley that went just wide.

Mark Bright thinks Greece are playing 4-2-4-2-3-1. Illegal surely?

oooooooh zherkob just ran 50 yards, went past two and is so so close to getting to ball to dzagoev for what would have been a free chance. getting closer and closer.

when he wound up for that i was thinking FFS what a waste

p good shot in the end
poland have to score before they run out of steam here

They've been great but they are running out a bit - still attacking loads but those attacks are ending further and further from the Czech goal.

spain '82 was the first int tourney i can remember and since then i've always felt they should be played in blazing sunshine and stifling heat. This feels wrong. Could be fun though.

Feels strange to hear "Gebre Selassie" and not be watching the legendary Ethiopian runner sprint away from the field to win another Olympic gold.

when poland do work it wide they only have lewandowski in the box

gebre selassie, pilar and hubschman are all good

Kinda agree about blazing sunshine and stifling heat - they should look entirely unlike regular footy is the point. I was going to posit ungodly kickoff times too, but that was just Mexico 86 really.

Classic Greece

Gah!

Classic Russia too

neat finish

like a haggard Leighton Baines, that guy

Awful from Zhirkov.

means czech rep may come out a little more which is good for poland

jeez, that'd put Greece through?

Damn, great goal. What amazing timing before the half!

"russia and greece will go out of group a" according to commentator

by 'go out' he means 'not go out'

ungodly kick-off times hmm. I did love 6am kick offs at Japan/Korea 2002 I admit.

he also said Poland would "go home"

surprised lineker is pressing moyes like this

lol hes still going

he wants him for spurs

apologize to Harry you bastard

at what stage would greece face england on the way to their second championship

haha
xp

And now Shearer's joined in.

"Do you think Bill Kenwright would give you permission to talk to Spurs?" I want them to work Clarence into this.

clarence you've been to some good west end musical entertainments in your time haven't you clarence

shearer makes it sound like avb shouldn't get another job cos the chelsea players didn't like him. Did the porto players hate him too?

here comes Pav

Don't remember the kick-off times being particularly ungodly for Mexico 86? I'm pretty sure the Hand of God game was on a Sunday afternoon (UK time), and England v Paraguay early evening. I have vague memories of seeing Wilkins get sent off and Robson injured on a Friday night (?) in a dreadful game in the group stages. The 3-0 with Lineker's goals must have been late and on a school night because I didn't see that live.

"assaulted by polanski" hm

kerzhakov has been pretty bad even disregarding his finishing

yeah the 3-0 was gone midnight
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i remember wilkins getting sent off on a friday as i was staying at my grans and she let me stay up .
Also remember being allowed to stay up on a schoolnight to see denmark beating scotland.

greece's attacking players are worse even than ireland's

i remember when samaras joined citeh he described it as a stepping stone to one of europe's biggest clubs

(onimo mutters something about jock stein)

Am I the only one watching Ch-Pol?

i'm watching it

poland offering nothing this half so far

lol I was just laughing at that classic Samaras break there, nice touch, rides a tackle, overruns the ball, has to challenge to keep it, somehow still has it, strides forward past another man, gets excited, shoots ridiculously wide from 30 yards, fixes his hair, expressionless.

His whole career in 10 seconds

xxxp

The analysis of the Greek goal was hilarious:

"Good goal"
"Keeper should've saved it in my view"

I can only assume they couldn't see the start of the clip in the studio.

xxxp - I am too, but it's not too much to write home about at present. Limbersky's looking bright, but no-one's really looking like scoring. It pretty much is what it is.