sorry MW but anything I felt towards Macca at the end has been replaced by white-hot loathing of Alexi Lalas being argumentative with Ballack & Martinez when both were criticizing England's tactics
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
srsly i'd watch the half hour i missed on ITV+1 but i'm not that much of a masochist
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Dunno how England can be dissatisfied with that really, but I'd worry about the Ukraine game. Was a bit like a mediocre Premiership game.
Neither team is getting beyond the second round.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Well done woy: organised, but grim and unexciting.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
we've got "international" class players who can't trap a ball without it bouncing a yard off them tbf, options was limited
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
no lie tho, one of the better performances from Gerrard in an England jersey, at least until i fell asleep
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
But Roo is coming back! :-)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
duh duhduh duh duh duh
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Was a bit like a mediocre Premiership game
I dread to think what England-Sweden will look like
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Monday, June 11, 2012 8:13 PM (7 minutes ago)
Kudos
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
that is a p bad display name
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Ukraine: Pyatov, Gusev, Mykhalyk, Khacheridi, Selin, Yarmolenko, Tymoschuk, Konoplianka, Nazarenko, Voronin, Shevchenko. Subs: Koval, Kucher, Garmash, Aliev, Shevchuk, Rakitskiy, Butko, Goryainov.
Sweden: Isaksson, Lustig, Mellberg, Granqvist, Martin Olsson, Elm, Kallstrom, Larsson, Ibrahimovic, Toivonen, Rosenberg. Subs: Wiland, Svensson, Jonas Olsson, Antonsson, Wernbloom, Safari, Holmen, Hansson.
voronin is so so bad, oleh blokhin is literally worse than radioactive swamps of pripyat
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
by white-hot loathing of Alexi Lalas being
Mind you, I don't mind Macca nor Ballack but my hatred of Lalas borders on irrational. His self-assessment and my assessment of him differ by miles and he never fails to be a smug dick about stuff esp when he's clearly wring or talking out his ass. At least Wynalda's kind of funny.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
no elmander no cred
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Elmander ain't fit yet, no?
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
makes me sad to see a larsson on the team sheet but not THE Larsson.
― pandemic, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
elmander has some minor problem
no guidetti but guidetti has a terrible accent and looks like a bloater so who knows
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Is Zlatan CF or #10 playmaker tonight? Or both?
― pandemic, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
#10 and supposedly it works better that way
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
that's what michael o
michael cox
says
Hansen not convinced by zlatan. Thought it was all about medals Alan?
― pandemic, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Shevchenko is a nice guy though
― Number None, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone not convinced by Zlatan hasn't been paying attention to football outside England for a decade. Oh wait.
― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
In the fall of 2007, Ibrahimović, with the help of Nike, self-funded Zlatan Court in the streets of the city district Rosengård in his hometown Malmö: he provided a playing mat, goalposts, lighting, and a modern fence.
― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
are they playing 2010 era sixth form faves the xx
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i think they are
that modern fence in all its glory
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/Images/media_copied/2007/10/03/ART-INLINE-0-384-zlatan2_95930a.jpg
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sport/zlatan-besoker-rosengard/
― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
wow Jonathan Pearce is talking a lot of bollocks, even by his bollocks-heavy standards
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
played the xx before the last game too. Might be a thing
― Number None, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
OMG Love the Swedish Kit!
― pandemic, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
sashed kits are the best
peru, juventus away the other year, usa! usa! usa! the other year, some others icrc
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
river plate obv
city away
― Number None, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
I had a lovely sashed Inter 1994 away and my wife ironed the collar off it :(
― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
spain away for this tourney has half a sash
― mizzell, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Shevchenko giving himself a breast massage there o_O
― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
4 andriys for ukraine, 2 andreases for sweden
― mizzell, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah so does russia, it looks alright but obviously not as good as a full sash
konoplyanka/khacheridi probably the biggest size difference between adjoining players
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh yes, lovely shirt
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Blimey they're obsessed with calling Zlatan "enigmatic"
Looking frwd to seeing Yarmolenko.
― pandemic, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Ahum. That's as camp as this thread needs to be I think.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't watch the senile cunts at the beginning, did an-sen and co say anything about any of the players other than ibrahimovic and the ones who have played in england
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
played them before the poland greece match too
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
it is an intro like
― Number None, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
heh
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
Rosenberg was rubbish for Werder Bremen last year.
no they didn't nakhxxp
― pandemic, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
there seemed to be a fair bit of criticism at the last world cup when they were mocking lee dixon for having heard of marek hamsik
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
well, that was dreadful
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link