EURO 2012

oooooooooh shit

Awesome pen from Ozil

COME ON ZE MANNSCHAFT.

just a consolation goal

neuer winning headers at the half way line!

Neuer diving header in the centre circle!

Neuter so great atm

another one, he should be playing CB

wasn't it Neuer who was lobbed by Dejan Stankovic after a header nearly at midfield a season ago?

Aw why blow now?

Fuck me that was exciting.

ITALIA

fuck them for not hittin that fk, ref otm

Ha yes, it was Neuer

16 years of hurt

Great game.

Oh Italy, how I love thee

not the result i wanted but v v cool game. Italy terrific. Germany should have stuck to their system instead of changing it.

How come I sometimes think France are my favourites?

Avanti, gli Azzuri!

2 best defences in the Final.

Commiserations pandemic

Balotelli standing next to Giovinco is pretty amusing.

How tall is Balotelli?!

Great game for sure. Man the final is going to be strange.

6'2 vs 5'4

Ned, all the more so since we've just seen them play a somehwat dull draw in the group stages

khedira was good and schweinsteiger in the 2nd half but the rest didn't bring it. Boateng was the out ball but produced one decent cross at most. Ozil was good until Italy scored.

Nonsense xp, the group game was the second best game at the tourney

Hummels too aggressive on the first goal.

The group game was good yes.

group game was a cracker

Germany won't win the next World Cup either, that belongs to Argentina.

Pirlo's like a shiny new toy for our panelists

cant believe this guy is so good at soccer

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__A72yyd5Nfw/THfg0CicWrI/AAAAAAAAArM/_eeVs8dp01E/s1600/mario_batali.jpg

oh dear Keown wheeling out the "German arrogance" cliche

Keown! Nearly every word is wrong.

Keown "German arrogance" Fuck Off.

A hoy tipped Italy at the start of the tourney I think. I wrote off Italy when they were wretched against Russia pre-tourney.

Keown is actually the worst of the BBC lot just in terms of ignorance

wasn't the keown-dixon pairing A Breath of Fresh Air when it first arrived? Has the BBC just sucked everything interesting out of them?

nah, Keown was just coasting off Dixon and the fact that he sounds a bit posh

^^^This.

Speaking very slowly and sounding thoughtful helped as well.

He speaks slowly cos he's a yokel

group game was a cracker

It was interesting tactically but I look forward to a game that one side or the other has to win.

Not entirely sure you're going to get it, Del Bosque seems pretty content with 0-0s and Italy might lose their nerve, Cassano might not replicate his great performance tonight, etc.

hot as hell here, ppl have put their tvs out on the pavement with extension cables. v sad people on our street.

Torres prolly won't get the call - I remember him being off form in the group game against Italy

he had a nightmare when he came on, yeah

v pleased to see italy completely outplay a v overhyped & sloppy germany. so many great interceptions, italian positioning was fantastic.

torres is not on great form, but the italians do often play p high so spain need runners