EURO 2012

leighton baines looks like a bbc costume designer's version of someone from the north, in the 70s.

yeah, very A Kind of Loving/Miles Kane:http://media.digitalphotogallery.com/plypucpwheur/images/dbb5aeaa-e264-4987-b172-e8170e7b89e3/miles_kane13_website_image_andrewwhittongallery_wxga.jpg?20110215143301

christ i formatted that badly, sorry everyone.

Phil Brown on 5Live last night wondering why German's and Italian's don't seem to come and play in the Prem.

"You look at Pirlo and wonder for the life of you why he's not come to England, is he um homophobic...".

I'm not sure that's really the term you were looking for Phil.

well *something* must be wrong with him

cos he doesnt need to be shawxed

do they even have leagues in Germany and Italy?

that is pretty amazing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7LquvfeQA

P H I L  B R O W N  I S  P H I L  B R O W N

wtf? is that edited, or does he think "homophobic" means afraid of leaving home?

xenophobic

Well you know how these Italians love their mamas

We lost to a better team, not a world-class team, an ordinary Italian team; with the exception of Andrea Pirlo I wouldn’t have swapped a single player for any of ours.

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/903278-ashley-cole-and-young-not-to-blame-the-team-caused-euro-2012-exit-mark-bright

mark bright is just the most retarded worthless fucking mouth breather

In the immortal words of Slaven Bilic "wake up you fucking cretin".

And your licence fee is paying his wages

the contempt for reason is so extreme it is just

an entire team outplays another team and that is down to the one player who they have already heard of, it's like every player other than pirlo (and balotelli) does not really exist, the rest of the world is just a fungible collection of anonymous foreigns who just randomly coagulate into teams to play england every few years

And, while we're at it, why won't the Scots, Welsh, Norn Irish just get behind the British team

yeah i did figure xenophobic as well. still, INCREDIBLY thick mistake to make, surely the word "homophobic" is ubiquitous now.

bright has a long history of saying dumb shit, he confused ireland and northern ireland last year then made it signifcantly more dumb when he got annoyed with people tweeting complaints at him, in a sort of "what's the difference anyway???! chill out!" way.

amazing to try parsing the reptile logic of phil brown

there are better players in other countries >> england has the best league >> why don't they come to england >> they hate england

I thought there was a "west ham reject" in the italian team

The England team is usually full of those too

is it really true that diamanti made more passes in 40 mins than gerrard in 120?

Apparently. Gerrard knacked by having to play in the best league in the world I suppose.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luk35lCneC1qchl8do1_500.gif

playing "Out There Somewhere" at the moment and it syncs rather nicely with that gif

idk about mentioning balotelli with pirlo, this is the balotelli that missed 2-3 one on ones and kicked the ball out of the stadium twice.

i mean he's obviously the world's greatest player it's just y'know when does he ever do anything?

FOUND OUT

just not found, tbh

yeah but u think andy carroll isn't waste

Balotelli plays in the Premiership therefore he is obv. Italy's best player. Bit like when Freddie Ljungberg was the obv. the best player in a Swedish team that included Zlatan AND Henrik Larsson.

i think andy carroll's got the makings of a particularly effective centre forward in him.

1. Half the Italy team plays for Juve, who didn't even make it into the Europa. If most English journo knowledge comes from the CL (unless a team beats Utd in the Europa), it isn't exactly surprising they don't know these guys, even if it is frustrating.

2. With an Italian Chelsea manager and an exotic Italian team (see #1) knocking England out, the Daily Mail and the Sun are going to write soooooooo many shitty false transfer stories about Montilivo or whoever going to Chelsea.

Zlatan at his peak > Ljungberg at that time > Henrik at the time > Zlatan at the time

zlatan, now he's waste.

Ljungberg at that time > Henrik at the time

You wouldn't have guessed that from their respective performsnces in the tournament

straight gooner challops

oh yeah my bad the guy who was an integral part in one of the greatest teams ever was shit.

lol yeah, he was shit, definitely

Or, are you saying that one of the best players in britain for almost a decade was 'shit'?

I didn't say he was shit, I said it was gooner challopy to place him in front of Henrik Larsson.

ibrahimovic is considerably better than either of the others ever were

larsson was better than ljungberg tho

fwiw I was a big admirer of Freddie and I was a great disappointment when a broken old husk of a man bearing his name turned up at Celtic Park for a pay check.

he came back from injury in 2007 or thereabouts and had completely lost his acceleration

without it he was trash, barely even milner level

ibrahimovic is considerably better than either of the others ever were

With Zlatan at his best I'd agree, but he so often looks so cba that I'd probably still rather have peak Henke in my team.

Also my spectacles are green-tinted as Henke remains the best team forward it has ever been my pleasure to see regularly.

No I am just fucking annoyed that supporting one of the best 20 players of the 00 decade is 'challops'. Larsson was v good those two and a half seasons in proper football, sitting on the bench for Barca and Utd.

aka Larsson didn't play in the premiership, therefore wasn't good

he so often looks so cba that I'd probably still rather have peak Henke in my team.

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― onimo, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:22 PM (54 seconds ago)

nobody of his size is going to be scurrying about like park js

his attitude isn't always great but that's more to do with his tendency to sulk if the rest of the team aren't exactly subservient to his needs

ljungberg wasn't even very good for more than a couple years tbrr, larsson was excellent in scotland and europe for years and years, and probably peaked before he ever retired to utd, so tbh sam that's actually shitetalk man