EURO 2012

or not

andy carroll has surely played his way ahead of wayne rooney for the wc qualifiers now btw

joe hart otm

oof

something about that corner huh

whoops

peno takers knowing they have to hit a corner is worth so much in a shootout

rooney surely misses

otm

Crikey, England lead

lol that was the most 'i'm gonna miss' pre-pen routine ever

*bows*

oh man

Looked terrified.

arses

never gonna score

they should just administer result based on closeup of taker before shot

good game for young huh

This is just ridiculous.

do yanks have anything like penos in their 'sports' ned

hart is such a moron.

very lazy

dreadful

reject

oh, engerland

Oh well

Only just finish.

blame hodgson for letting young take one imo, the performance before the shootout is U&K

(there are penos in hockey, but only in the regular season -- in the playoffs they just go until someone scores)

At least it was the two players who couldn't be hated more

west ham reject

the two ashleys eh

just two IK? be srs

Wtf was hart doing with those aggro faces? Pirlo merked him. Knew Young would miss.

Shit, what am I saying - take it JT was down for no.5

Darraghmac: I'm not up on my hockey as I should be but unless they have something like that, nope.

What a fucking slog of a game, Germany's probably just laughing a bit.

germany italy

spain portugal

tasty

at least with Young's you felt he had a settled idea of how he was going to hit it even if it was a dipshit idea

Cole obv just looked at the last two Italian penos and thought, that looks like a laugh why not

Can't complain about that: outplayed for more than an hour and would have got humped by Germany anyway.

pirlo ran a sav all night

Oh thanks Mookie, missed your post. I knew I'd seen hockey penalties at some point but wasn't sure where.

penalties, a test of nerve and technique, is also a lottery.

hate that.

Italy could yet beat Germany. There was no way whatsoever England could.

to the rooney thread

Rooney clearly unfit. It was a waste of time taking him.

Cole obv just looked at the last two Italian penos and thought, that looks like a laugh why not

Yes, except having paused to see which way the keeper was going he elected to hit it really softly in that direction.

Pirlo player of the tournament <3 <3 <3

Would've been a fucking travesty if England had won that. Still, Italy will be knackered and Germany will tonk them.

Awesome penalty from Pirlo.

Wish this bollocks theory that England played well in the first half would be abandoned.

Croatia the only team to have gone home too soon

Jurgen's so good at this

ah well, i was wrong. even i didn't think hodgson and england would fuck up that badly. amazing.