EURO 2012

england get their traditional opening goal early doors, then demoralising outplayed draw or 3-1 slump

a non-regular on the footy threads asks; how comes the England game isn't on the BBC?

they take it in turns with ITV

at least until the quarter fi...no, i can't do that with a straight face

ah right, gotcha. 2nd daft question then; is there an ITV stream online?

I want anything but a draw - I have separate bets that involve one of France/England winning the group.

google "ITV Sports" they stream all the games they show i think

i fancy an exciting but technically hilarious 2-2 here btw

http://www.itv.com/itv1/

ah grand, thanks.

itv.com has a shoddy player, i'd recommend looking for a stream. torn now, racist v nasri. why cant they both lose? nice for the ox i guess.

do France really have no one better than Malouda?

if we come thru this tournament without at least 1 new animated gif of EBGRCJT falling on his face as he forlornly chases after a breaking opposition striker i will be fucking amazed

1-1. Not too confident with that prediction.

A lot of hilarity guaranteed.

Stoked for your sadness.

nah, they don't care

Who could blame them?

"Agincourt, Waterloo and now Donetsk."

Hyperbole much?

fucking going nuts already at this coverage "Agincourt, Waterloo and now Donetsk"

EBJT, Parker and Hart belting out the anthem, everyone else mumbling away like proper footballers.

Ribery getting ready to kill some cunt.

lol xp

power cut just ended here so i've missed the build up and as such am still feeling quite predisposed to Eng. After 5 mins of commentary i'll have reverted to wanting them to get caned 4 nil. Still 5 mins of being an England fan is the most i've managed for a couple of decades .

Reckon it'll be 0-0. Debuchy is p good i think.

ten minutes in and nothing has happened

Putting it mildly.

It was like that at Agincourt too tbf

haha

ooh should have finished there

for goodness' sake

Well that was...well, never mind.

Townsend: "I think he should score"

It was well-crafted, just fell to completely the wrong guy

We've got Ian Darke and Steve McManaman doing the commentary. I treat it as ambient sound with somewhat piercing tones.

Getting going a bit now - two attempts from France and a bad miss from Milner after some good play. We'll get a highlight reel out of this yet.

Very good from t'Ox

England have played more football in 15 mins here than in the previous 180 mins under Roy.

I'm holding out for at least 6 more mentions of "great feet"

this ITV commentary is so Alan Partridge; "i've liked this man since i first saw him.. good strength.. good body.. looks good in the shirt.. "

following this via radio. sounds pretty dull, is this wrong?

oh no Ray Clemence is injured o_O

this is p exciting compared to a lot of Euro/World Cup England-opening-games i've seen in the last 15 years.

Was just thinking how tyldsley reminds me of Partridge. Total lack of self awareness plus that forced nasal tone.

With benzema playing so deep france may as well play him behind giroud instead of as a lone CF

Why do England play like completing passes isn't important?

At this train pace I should be home for 7. Think i'll miss anything?

relatively speaking this is a passing masterclass from england
xp

England look decent getting it forward, France look like they're running out of ideas a little. Wouldn't like to call this right now.

great ball & header

set play team

false hope.

In-ger-lund

good goal tho