EURO 2012

yeah i think after his slightly derange performance vs arsenal the linekerite bantuhstans seeking a king in the mountain have given up on mario and are probably looking for another bantuh legend to patronize

he actually seems bothered about playing for italy and pranelli is super suspect of him so i don't really envisage any problems

maybe more worrying for italy would be whether their narrow, pedestrian midfield is going to do enough running to make up for balo & cassano

Platini and Collina have both warned him about being booked already.

UEFA president Michel Platini has told the official Euro 2012 kick-off press conference that any player who leaves the pitch due to racist abuse will be given a yellow card.

Platini confirmed that the rule preventing players from leaving the field of play without the referee's permission would be enforced even if they are the victims of racism from the stands in Poland and Ukraine.

The comments came after Mario Balotelli last week threatened to walk off the pitch if he suffered racist abuse during Italy's Euro 2012 games - and Platini confirmed he would be punished in that event.

"It's a yellow card," Platini said at a Warsaw press conference dominated by the theme of racism. "We'd certainly support the referee if he decided to stop the game. It's not a player, Mr Balotelli, who's in charge of refereeing. It's the referee who takes these decisions.

"So the referee has been given advice and he can stop the game if there are problems. We will stop the game if there are problems because I think racism is the worst of this.''

UEFA's chief refereeing officer, Pierluigi Collina, underlined Platini's sentiment, insisting the teams had been informed of the procedure in the event of racist abuse being a problem.

"Things are clear,'' he said, confirming that officials had also been fully briefed. "Referees have a protocol so they know what they have to do. The match director, who is responsible for each match, knows what has to be done on the field of play."

Platini, though, refused to be drawn on the findings of last week's BBC Panorama programme, as well as Sol Campbell's warning that black fans who travel to the tournament risk "coming back in a coffin''.

The Frenchman, who was increasingly angered by the line of questioning, added: "What would you like me to say? How would you want me to answer this?

"Everyone can do what they like. I don't think there's any more racism in Poland and Ukraine than in France or anywhere else, or even in England. It's not a footballing problem. It's a problem for society.

"I'm not charge of what goes on in football stadiums. It's the states that need to take charge of this. There have been problems with violence in the 1970s in England.

"They made great strides actually to change the situation, and we need to do work in the field of racism and we need to stop this from happening. How can you say outside the stadium: 'He's a racist - he can't come in, he's not a racist - he can come in'? You can't do it."

ugh i can imagine the leading questions from the english hack scums

england's peerless and unblemished post-racial paradise is now another myth for boorish patriots to cling to

now every retard on twitter has been prosecuted, england is free of racism and we can sneer at those horrible eastern european countries where they hang foreigners from trees and drink their blood

Is this tournament thread going to be 75% "Daily Mail" / "Dem not gonna con dis nation"-type content?

thought mario was going to get sent-off in the 2nd half against Russia the other night. He looked to be heading that way. Still he played well. Cassano didn't.

i wasn't in love with him kicking scotty parker in the head, after all scotty done for the queen gawd blesser in WWI

― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 6:14 PM (19 minutes ago)

that was pretty good, suarez kicking him in the balls was a hans molemanish classic

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http://www.boxofficefootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1417a86.gif

suarez beautifully naturalistic mea culpa gesture is better than mario's obviously feigned fall

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content tbh

Is there a decent downloadable wallchart out there that i can get for this thing?

noble mario and luis are just trying to whack the shellshock out of the poor blighter's noggin. xxp.

lol boxall

btw i am very annoyed at my department for making june the most important month of the year, don't you see that i have PRIORITIES?

(it's also prevented me from going to lol deleuze workshop in notlol new orleans. D: )

iirc there was a study about how boys underperform scholastically in even years (except for 2008 and 1994 presumably)

it's also prevented me from going to lol deleuze workshop in notlol new orleans

I have no idea what this meanz

being stuck here through june means i can't be excessively geeky and go to deleuze2012.com , nor be ungeeky and happen to be in new orleans for summer.

Is there a decent downloadable wallchart out there that i can get for this thing?

― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:44 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't checked to see if this works and is free from errors but:
http://www.36sports.com/latest-news/euro-2012-schedule-betting-tips-download-excel-and-jpg-2/

i made the mistake of reading the times a couple of months ago, and in the g2 aping pullout section full of insincere lifetsyle dogshit some waste cunt was explaining how scott parker made him proud to support the h'england team on the grounds that i) he ran around a lot and ii) his throwback haircut exacerbated the dunkirk spirit of the whole thing

de leuze sounds like an underachieving Belgian u21 prodigy

with de leuze and de ridder you have the midfield of a solid mid-table championship side.

just reading thru the excellent ZM previews, realizing how much i like the 16 team format and how crap the early stages are likely to be when it moves to 24 teams

Thanks for the link Onimo, that looks great!

his throwback haircut exacerbated the dunkirk spirit of the whole thing

I rather like his haircut. It looks quite good on him but what grown person seriously talks about a footballer's haircut in relation to their support for a national side?

http://news.7msport.com/news/upload_img/20120529/go2_2012052910320133.jpg

Someone needs to undo his top button to release the pressure

tbf to wayne he does look very much better with the hair.

but. still.

he's getting overconfident is the problem

ya he isn't fair from growing an raf moustache and hanging around on brick lane with that look.

far

why does our scotty wear those fucking horrible skintight shorts all the time? god i can't stand him.

Beckham is looking immense these days, speaking of 'that look'

and hanging around on brick lane with that look.

I just read the wiki about Brick Lane but I'm not sure I infer everything I'd like to about this post. /tuomas

Is there some kind of UKIP provocation thing that goes on there?

Waine Pryce

Yeah beckham's current look is great .

wellll tbh i'd say becks' damn good quality beard is putting an american deadwood kinda slant on it that sets him apart from joey barton's zorg look which itself is on the punk fringe of the stu pearce/parker/twp ukip look

(parker being on the furthest opposite end of that scale leaning towards apolitical general debonair)

I saw a flash of colour on Parker's boots the other day. Fucking sell-out.

set up a league. code is 336437-76498

ach with the brick lane thing i just meant that wayne, retro side-parting and all, was beginning to let out his inner hipster. i'm evidently not v good at being understood tonight.

I think Rooney's 'do is less retro side-parting than comb-over because his fake hair isn't working out quite how he planned. Good enough for Bobby Charlton.

who is the most hipster of the England squad?

i have a feeling i may have asked that question before

obv ilx hero leighton.

not jim.

Lawro just daringly picked France to win it on BBC's shite preview show. Shearer, mindful of past embarrassments no doubt, went for Germany.