EURO 2012

Italy being a wee bit underrated by English pundits. Just a tad.

i dunno why i get pulled on my v fair hatred of the bluffer selfserving lying spaniard when chris gets to tackle woy for the most spurious of reasons long after his spited time at lfc ended

it's the way he thinks he's imparting pearls of wisdom every time he opens his mouth. he is doing a decent job indeed, not denying that. he's being hodgson. i'm even convinced england are gonna win the thing! but the love fest is making me sick.

think that quoted sentence fairly answers itself.

i wonder if gary neville makes those sex noises on the bench when england score.

The Juventus midfielder feels the Three Lions have been unimpressive so far at the European Championship, and is confident the Azzurri will exploit their weaknesses.

"People talk about England playing the Italian way, but that's rubbish. Only Italy can play the Italian way. And we do not care for anyone who tries to impersonate us," Pirlo stated to Sky Sports.

"Maybe they will adopt a different approach against us, but I doubt it because in some ways they are very predictable.

"I have seen some of England's games in this tournament. They have been more practical than impressive, and we are confident of beating them.

"They have weaknesses that we can exploit, particularly in midfield. They are missing some key players and I think we will have the measure of them in that area.

"They also look very nervous at times in defence and, France aside, they have not had to play against too many big nations."

so fucking otm

Virginie Caprice predicted last night's match correctly:

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Now she predicts a 1-0 win for England:

https://p.twimg.com/AwKPTSeCIAIfUz4.jpg

So you know. She's no octopus either.

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Haha, that's awes DanM!

Who are England playing in the World In Motion video? I always had in mind it was Yugoslavia, but they don't look like Yugoslavs. Is it Uruguay?

England: Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Gerrard, Parker, Young, Rooney, Welbeck. Subs: Green, Kelly, Walcott, Henderson, Carroll, Baines, Jones, Jagielka, Downing, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Defoe, Butland.

Italy: Buffon, Abate, Barzagli, Bonucci, Balzaretti, Pirlo, Marchisio, De Rossi, Montolivo, Balotelli, Cassano. Subs: Sirigu, Maggio, Chiellini, Ogbonna, Thiago Motta, Di Natale, Giaccherini, Borini, Giovinco, Diamanti, Nocerino, De Sanctis.

Referee: Pedro Proenca (Portugal)

I'm right looking forward to this. Nobody does this quite like England.

pens. probly.

Both of these teams are worldbeaters at going out of tournaments pissing and whining and crying injustice but I'm still tipping Italy here.

It's fucking loud in that stadium by the way.

Either that or the BBC are economising and have been given the shit studio.

My dad's at this, I just hope it's better than the other quarter-finals.

oh no lawro

ooh this could be bad

crikey

wow

lol

Jesus, this is looking desperate already

A slice, according to Lawro.

amazing

fuckin hell

oh wow another great chance, this one for enguland

best save of the tournament winner

all he has to do there is score it

fuckin hell

Ray Houghton just expressed surprise that wayne rooney wasn't deployed to man mark pirlo.

Italy looking rattled now

both these sides are pretty bad

Still can't separate Buffon and Todd Traynor.

How'd that happen?!

Mario has to do better there.

mario and even more so cassano looking completely off

Was an excellent run & pass, nobody at fault there

ffs at least get them on target from there

Decent move

Cassano's made some weird choices so far

Cassano really looking like pish

England settling for being the passive side now

ie have gone to shit already

italy looking like pish, tbh

May the least pish side win

cassano powering one into ashley cole's backside

Loving this tbh

Is the pitch particularly slippery or are England just incapable of staying on their feet?

Rooney's passing has been so rotten