EURO 2012

football should be more like comic books

i'm not stanning for italy either, fwiw. solid outfit that counter effectively, the only thing that annoys me about them is my oft-stated aversion to OOOH MARIO LOOK INNEE MAD LOL whenever he does something stupid and OOOH MARIO WORLDY TALENT INNEE BUT DEMONS ETC whenever he does something half-ok

i don't get hate for xavi or iniesta btw?

I miss David Villa

ya

xavi and iniesta are, as far as i can tell from interviews, about as nice as you can expect from footballers, and humble, disinterested in celebrity, etc. puyol made friends with miki roque - who he'd never shared a dressing room with - after he developed cancer because they were from the same region, roque's mother from the same town as puyol, and paid for his cancer treatment. what a horrible guy.

wasn't it just Fabregas that people were expressing hatred for (no doubt he gives a lot to charity, loves his mum etc.)

he's got to love his mum, aiui, seeing as she's the only person could love his face

fabregas burns horses

I possibly bumped Xavi above Silva on the basis of his hubristic pomposity at the start of the tournament.

my hate for xavi and puyol (and deco, eto'o, ronaldinho, pique, reina etc.) is the 'more than a club' thing continued every week arrogance and that henry and cesc etc. were wasting away why play for arsenal no-one cares about them give up and just play for us, whats london anyway, they most probably have no fans and play shitty football or something, these 3rd division minnows, we are more than a club, political heroes who score 12 a game and are beautiful and beloved by everyone fighting evil we'll let you wear a cape unless you don't immediately fit in and then we'll hate you like zlatan or henry but don't think about that come to us because nothing you have done means anything until it is barca

yeah xavi had a bad interview near the beginning.

he 'more than a club' thing continued every week arrogance

Maybe this is two complaints missing a comma, but do you understand the first part at all? It seems like you think it means something it doesn't.

what was that xavi interview?

well we know why you hate them, sam- you're their feeder club. but i think you need to accept this and move on.

i hate utd for lots of other reasons, for instance

sorry, jarvy interview. motson's pronunciation the best.

I don't really hate any clubs tbh. I consider them all beneath me

this one I suppose? xp

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/spain/9320302/Euro-2012-Xavi-exposes-fractures-in-Spain-squad-and-takes-swipe-at-Jose-Mourinho.html

I want to thank a hoy hoy for writing out almost exactly what I couldn't be bothered to re Spain.

is the way this spain team plays a result of the same type of changes made in germany after euro 2000, or is just a result of barca/la masia producing these type of players and everyone else being so good that they can easily fit into this tiki-taka system?

I don't see a new fleet of outrageously skilful and intelligent central midfielders on the Spain bench, though there is Thiago Alcantara left out of the squad. Javi Martinez doesn't seem quite on the same level, technically.

Mario Balotelli @45MarioBalo45
Very happy to see john terry cry when we play england, he deserve it..no one can be racist and get away to it

im going to take a guess that that's a fake account.

Fake or no fake, Balotelli OTM

it's definitely fake though

lol u tard

enoch balotelli has/had a twitter acct iirc

tangent time, but have any of you got the game "score classic goals" for iphone? it is really fun and i think people here would enjoy it a lot. you basically recreate loads of classic international goals by swiping to pass the ball or shoot in the right place. pretty easy but a nicely designed trip down memory lane.

Mario's real account has his photo with Drake as the icon iirc.

Vialli described it as more of a 2-8-0. Eventually we'll re-invert the pyramid.

Years ago a friend of mine dimissed Portugal as a goalkeeper and 10 midfield players!

everyone should watch the highlights of barcelona 5 villarreal 0 from early last season

I remember that match, phenomenal even by Barcelona's standards. The high point of Fabregas' season? Too bad it sunk the yellow submarine.

tangent time, but have any of you got the game "score classic goals" for iphone? it is really fun and i think people here would enjoy it a lot. you basically recreate loads of classic international goals by swiping to pass the ball or shoot in the right place. pretty easy but a nicely designed trip down memory lane.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, June 29, 2012 2:44 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, this is more fun than it has any right to be

this meme has potential
http://i.imgur.com/i6tIC.jpg

looool

most egregious commentary of the night was calling these jokers "a coupla marios"
http://i.minus.com/iE67qnM67nXgw.gif

yeah, bristled at that one

cue Lawro - "Geeks!"

Luigi looks like he's shouting DADDY then fixing his moustache.

Not a sentence you read too often

Is that Sacha Baron Cohen on the right?

Working on a new character perhaps?

I think it was one Mario there and one on the bench that made the "couple".

It was

Spare a thought for Mario Gomez, who started the tournament with a big hype man bellowing his name and ended up the fourth Mario in the pecking order, below Luigi.

A man in a green dinosaur suit refused to shake his hand in the tunnel.

Joseph Barton ‏@Joey7Barton

Think this makes Englands performance nowhere near as bad as certain media types made out. England would of beaten Germany on this showing.

unlike martin samuel he didn't complain about hodgson's failure to use 'england's baresi', 20 yr old player without a position phil jones

omg england's baresi?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2165149/Euro-2012-Why-did-Roy-Hodgson-Phil-Jones--Martin-Samuel.html