EURO 2012

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.

never change

someone managed to take a linkin' park song and make it worse

Who was it? I like Linkin, and I liked that.

eh going out on penos to italy, i dunno what england coach since robson or maybe venables fucks up any less in the knockout stages of a tournament

Charlie Adam ‏@Charlie26Adam
Get it in the mixer for the big man game over

is there a gif yet of Mario getting wanked off by two guys before extra time yet?

Happy for Pirlo.

Why oh why has the brave new world of being so shit and losing in 90 mins not materialised? Why wasting everyone's time with spirit and er, spirit to lose on pens?! ffs!

Hierarchy of England exits, modern era:

• Italia 90
• Euro 96
• France 98
• Portugal 04
• Germany 06
• this
• Euro 2000
• South Africa 2010
• were England even at Euro 92?

why did pirlo have so much space? why were england so deep? why didn't hodgey change it? inflexible, arrogant, clueless. he knows one way and one way only. no way are these players as technically poor as those 4 matches suggest.

i'm not sure what pirlo did all match that was so damaging tbph, i musta missed a few things. italy had attacking momentum but only really damaged england when terry fucked the offside trap for balotelli a few times in the first half.

inflexible, arrogant, clueless. he knows one way and one way only. no way are these players as technically poor as those 4 matches suggest.

join the queue of last several lfc managers so tbf. if we're just grinding axes here, like.

england did not qualify for 92

WHAT?

Euro 92 = Turnipgate

i mean, chris, england's players have always looked technically incompetent, we have actual threads about this. english players are technically incompetent, as a unit wrt passing, touch, movement and decisions.

Rooting for the underdogs Ita and Por. Don't think the Italians have that much class at the back unfortunately and Portugal are Portugal - although they've been the best I've seen at a major tournament.

xxp = lol wtf they couldn't string five passes together toward the end of that - not Hodgson's fault.

Pirlo would have made space but yeah not as damaging as the narrative will suggest.

nothing to do with liverpool. why when rooney broke was the rest of the team in their own half sticking to that precious shape?

haha sorry i misremember the followon failure to qualify for usa 94 obv

92 was brolin wasn't it? xposts oops

rooney broken through now?

so why is there this narrative about england having done well in this comp? they played terribly for the most part. is it just cos they played shit with an english coach that nobody hates, so the fans got behind the team more? that seems to be it as far as i can see.

Oxlade-Chamberlain for England manager 2013

young's and wellbeck's movement was terrible on the break, but the system tonight wasn't so much the problem as the indifferent attacking performance/nerves of young, rooney- hodgson ought to have hauled both off tbf, i'll grant you that

Portugal 04 > France 98

In Portugal England actually looked good for about two and a half matches. In France they scraped out of a shit group, then lost to a team who lost to a team who lost to a team who lost the final.

There was no one on the bench who would've done better than Rooney or Welbeck. Carroll wasn't any good.

why is there this narrative about england having done well in this comp?

Relatively speaking, they have done. I much prefered watching the group games this time around to the utterly tedious shit that England served up in South Africa (or the largely insipid displays in Germany, for that matter).

england's players have always looked technically incompetent, we have actual threads

Certainly the impression I've received throughout my entire football hating and approx one England match a year watching life. Other teams: possession, passing. England: long balls, passes to nowhere.

xp

NBS otm why is there a narrative that rates all England performances the same instead of comparing their achievements across tournaments?

yes england have always looked technically inferior, but hodgson doesn't even set teams up to pass, to control, to dominate. england have been outplayed in almost all of hodgson's games. coincidence? and we want this guy to lead the st george's park revolution?

Eng have done really well, but only if you compare to past perfs at the Euros that are set away from home. To top the group with a manager that has just taken over w/several injuries (Wilshere, Lampard) does = well.

What isn't ever faced (as per the beeb) is that we are as bad as Greece (say), whom the media here have no right to criticise. multiple xps

Relatively speaking, they have done. I much prefered watching the group games this time around to the utterly tedious shit that England served up in South Africa (or the largely insipid displays in Germany, for that matter).

true, but that's relative to an absolute low. i guess the swedish game was exciting enough that it got people behind the team. england weren't great that night either though.

scott parker btw, knew he'd be found out at this level, he's just not international class.

xpost they haven't played well though, and they only topped the group due to the incompetence of others and a massive refereeing error. don't delude yourselves.

wasn't England just in an easy group this time?

England in a relatively easy group, short of players with technical ability, leaden and inflexible tactically. Still their best tournament performances since 2004 probably.

and 2004 not a question of being a better side, just a younger, bolder Rooney

Fair enough, but most people thought (for once) that Eng were not going to get out of that group and Eng did show something to come back against Sweden.