EURO 2012

thiago alcantara in five years maybe

Know what you mean, but actually I can see those levels of passing and fluidity being maintained if Xavi left. They are a team+++

it was "a show of solidarity between the Spanish and the Catalans". He wasn't joking

― Number None

that is incredible.

xavi is amazing, there is nobody else who has ever been able to do what he does

iniesta is similarly amazing in having the skill and vision to rank with just about every #10 this side of maradona while playing in central midfield

spain have loads of great players but those two are above them

@Grahamdorrans17 Busquets has now won the Euro's x1,World Cup x1, La Liga x3,UCL x2, Coppa DR x2,UEFA SC x2,Club World Cup x2. At the age of 23. #Justretire

the whole point is Spain don't have to be boring. They could be a lot more exciting than they are. How hard is that to understand?

cos anti-football's alright as long as you do it with the ball ;)

23. Shit.

yes i agree but i think what Spain are able to achieve can be replicated with some of those great players. Its not going to fall off if at least one of them left.

They are quite far above anybody as a collective group, although we will see how that translates to South America and what Brazil & Argentina are like then. xxxp

love that graham dorrans is keeping count

graham dorrans won promotion to gods own epl tho

That Dunphy quote unbelievable!

Also kudos to Sky Sports News guy - "3 of the goalscorers are from the Premiership so England can take some comfort from that."

yeah i just don't think they can tho

barcelona look notably weaker without even one of x or i

in their absence spain will become more like any other great side, probably players like muniain martinez and canales playing an ever so slightly more vertical game

graham dorrans won promotion to gods own epl tho

― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 1 July 2012 22:25 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

nakhers man even for you ur damn near foaming at the mouth when it comes to great brit clogging lately, whats up

did a white van man draw a cock n balls on your moleskine or something

dorrans isnt a clogger, hes pretty nifty

and yeah i was responding to sky news and their gloating at epl 3 serie a 0

after euros finishing i am bereft.

ya, i just wanna rewind my life 3 weeks and start it all again.

im realizing how im kicking english fitba a lot right now but it's just sitting blind drunk and vomitstrewn on a surrey golf course and it's just asking for a five iron's coup de grace to the temple

not gonna stop til phil jones and daniel sturridge are the only english players in the epl

yeah see i was already itching to get back into the epl swing of things even before tonight's festivities

i mean i do know in my heart of hearts it's deplorable in every way but i guess in a general sense i'm still loving da banta as it were

You guys. I feel like I've been demobbed, six weeks of respite isn't long enough.

Give it a week and I'll be agog at Terry with the rest of you.

<3 nakh

Not read thread yet, hope nobody's giving it the ”are they STILL boring now eh? Eh?” after that. Cos that's the first ambitious spanish performance i've seen this tournament.

They are incredible tho.

epl last year was great but maybe i'll follow the bundesliga next year

trouble is that everyone apart from the top six kinda bleeds into one, you don't get content like qpr or west ham

i keep watching those two through balls over and over and over they're just incalculable

^ same here

if you're talking about the first two goals, i mean

http://f.cl.ly/items/0w080W3A2e0d043w2K0Z/Screen%20Shot%202012-07-01%20at%2023.36.36.png

i missed the first half and watching it now, casillas' fingertips were men of the match contenders

each one of his fingertips from I to XI was different class

i just find it funny that fans of england, scotland etc can call anyone boring

― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper)

i believe that noted ilfer 'darraghmac' tackled this very subject with aplomb in the post-wc2012 depression thread on ilx- epl fans' addiction to drama has left them bereft of patience/tolerance for the style of possession and movement that is required for consistent success in international tournaments

the wc, you will have noted, took place in 2010

nakhers man even for you ur damn near foaming at the mouth when it comes to great brit clogging lately, whats up

did a white van man draw a cock n balls on your moleskine or something

was thinking this also, but didn't want to start some row by saying it. i assumed these feelings were just more prominent due to the brief fervour about england/roy.

exorcising the zeitgeist never as U&K as when the english feel optimistic about football imo, usually means that postpub kickings are due a rise and probable invasion of a developing nation is just around the corner

think we're at capacity at the mo for finding small strategically located countries to have "wars" in

tournament football turns me into the biggest anti-english cunt in the world purely due to the coverage that you get in britain. yet i'll still be dribbling, like nakh, all over whatever monikered epl thread - which will have more posts in it than all of ilf combined - in a few weeks time.

i know that all commentating is horrible, but from the commentating that i have experienced and can understand (scottish, english, spanish, latin american), english is the most parochial and infuriating.

xp i dunno, i hear liz and philip were on a fucking scouting mission again lately

tell you what re commentating, ray fuckin houghton forced me to watch the final on itv. that's alarming.

even the picture seemed worse on ITV

I actually flicked between ITV, BBC, and RTE. Gave 'em all 15 minutes each per half. They're all shit btw

would "worst commentator on british tv for euro 2012" be a good thread, yes or no?

craig burley for me. or maybe lawro. lawro's puns were making me want to cry.

burley easily

The champion/burley combo is truly the worst. Peter Drury is up there though.

there was very little public enthusiasm tho, far fewer england flags on cars, very few supporters travelling, no reports of the usual post-exit riots in croydon and birmingham etc -- the worst patriotism queens in london this year are alas the bourgie shitheads with their union bunting tea parties (eugh)

this year it felt like the media really had to step in with the obnoxiousness -- the post group stage topofthefackinworld boosterism, chiles wishing ibrahimovic to get injured, bright doing his bit for nominative determinism, lawrenson hitting new lows of disinterest, lineker's hatefully joyless 'come on england', martin samuel saying all sorts of stupid things you didn't read cuz well good for you

lineker welcoming us in for halftime in the portugal-espana game with 'well that was boring' was kinda all-time

just warming up for the Olympics which if i gave enough of a shit about to watch more than the 100m will be fully by jingo horrendous

you've got andy murray in the wimbledon final to look forward to before then NV

like the dolts i see with union jacks waving from their cars are certainly desperate for any excuse to flaunt one