EURO 2012

Anyway.

which game should I watch?

Right now I'm watching Spain-Croatia.

HRAVSTKA

that was my pick too. Just because Spain can be sublime.

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Spain-Croatia because there's elimination definitely at stake there, unless there isn't in which case switch over for the laughs.

Del Bosque just described as 'avuncular.' Um.

croatia to win, italy draw for maximum lols

italy to lose

don't think spain 2012 will be able to crank out the 1-0's like spain 2010

italy have been v v underwhelming so far. no balotelli - as good as di natale is in the 6 yard box, he doesn't exactly add any creativity. more of a trad back 4 too, which is rubb considering they are playing a p inneffective attacking team.

DON'T FUCKING KICK IT OUT UNLESS THE REF TELLS YOU TO

how hard is that? seriously

ha i was just going to say how great closeups of xavis raptor eyes at fks are

he is just an incredible player, tempted to say the best general football intelligence i have ever seen (assuming there is such a thing and noting that messi and iniesta have sharper instincts in the final quarter of the pitch)

Spain could do with Cesc on so that they have someone other than just Nando prepared to get in the box imo.

Great break for Ireland but how the hell can mcgeady make that mistake?

is that a trick question?

Ireland looking more game than usual.

pen surely

maybe not

Ramos is a fucker.

was it pique who went diving in at the halfway line to cause that?

he is just an incredible player, tempted to say the best general football intelligence i have ever seen (assuming there is such a thing and noting that messi and iniesta have sharper instincts in the final quarter of the pitch)

― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:09 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it me or is it a kinda new thing to laud players on how intelligent their play is? xavi, schweini, iniesta, pirlo, modric etc. are most probably better regarded than robben, ribery, rooney, maybe even the whole real attack despite these players being more 'exciting'.

close from di natale

nice while it lasted

italy score

In?

Yes. Given is fucked

yup

who scored? i turned over to bbc1

What happened there? Couldn't tell on the other channel.

cassano header

In off Given? In off the bar?

Given conceded the corner with a fumble from a routine shot then flailed uselessly at the header for the goal

No shit fucking Mick McCarthy he has given a yellow for making a dude bleed, regardless of how soft the foul initially looked. If you look at a tackle and think its fine and then notice that someone's been shawx, you don't have to go with your initial instincts.

in off given then cleared from over the line onto the bar i think

is it me or is it a kinda new thing to laud players on how intelligent their play is?

ha, they've been doing this since Teddy Sheringham at least

oh sure but now it seems like an important 'thing' that seems to be evaluated all throughout football and not just with one or two barren examples

I think in less enlightened times it was a concession that what Sheringham was doing was still football. There are more players with games not purely based around heads-down running nowadays.

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Is there a secret stream for this? My work computer won't let me see ESPN3.

is it me or is it a kinda new thing to laud players on how intelligent their play is? xavi, schweini, iniesta, pirlo, modric etc. are most probably better regarded than robben, ribery, rooney, maybe even the whole real attack despite these players being more 'exciting'.

― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Monday, June 18, 2012 8:20 PM (16 minutes ago)

that is a sort of counterintuitive bias that you will find in a lot of football writing that favours players who run games over those that decide them

the worst example of this i've seen is ppl averring that alonso is more important to madrid than ronaldo

That demonic trailer for Rooney a minute ago - did they get him all dressed up & posing for about five seconds of film, or is it all cgi or what? How do footballers' schedules work?

FTW: Would it be too clichéd to suggest that you played as a False number nine when you played?

MC: Actually I was generally used as a right midfielder. I would have preferred to have been a central midfielder but I was never as physical as some players. In fact I think one of the reasons I love Michael Carrick is that if my ability was anywhere near that level, that’s the type of player I’d have been. He’s not the most physical but he reads the game so well. Unfortunately, I was normally shunted out to the right instead.

http://footballthisweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/big-interview-michael-cox-of-zonal.html

― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Monday, June 18, 2012 8:43 PM (2 minutes ago)

this could end up working out nicely for England

the angle makes Moyes look like he should be signing this

fuck hansen et al apologizing for shay given

he has been fucking dogshit this tournament, ireland might even have had a chance of not being a total embarassment if he didn't concede retarded goals at the beginning of every half

he's probably not fully fit but it's his own fault for not saying something

yeah i've read that and if it's true he is a disgrace

i'll be charitable and just assume he's too old, his reflexes have gone and he is playing terribly