EURO 2012

Feels strange to hear "Gebre Selassie" and not be watching the legendary Ethiopian runner sprint away from the field to win another Olympic gold.

when poland do work it wide they only have lewandowski in the box

gebre selassie, pilar and hubschman are all good

Kinda agree about blazing sunshine and stifling heat - they should look entirely unlike regular footy is the point. I was going to posit ungodly kickoff times too, but that was just Mexico 86 really.

Classic Greece

Gah!

Classic Russia too

neat finish

like a haggard Leighton Baines, that guy

Awful from Zhirkov.

means czech rep may come out a little more which is good for poland

jeez, that'd put Greece through?

Damn, great goal. What amazing timing before the half!

"russia and greece will go out of group a" according to commentator

by 'go out' he means 'not go out'

ungodly kick-off times hmm. I did love 6am kick offs at Japan/Korea 2002 I admit.

he also said Poland would "go home"

surprised lineker is pressing moyes like this

lol hes still going

he wants him for spurs

apologize to Harry you bastard

at what stage would greece face england on the way to their second championship

haha
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And now Shearer's joined in.

"Do you think Bill Kenwright would give you permission to talk to Spurs?" I want them to work Clarence into this.

clarence you've been to some good west end musical entertainments in your time haven't you clarence

shearer makes it sound like avb shouldn't get another job cos the chelsea players didn't like him. Did the porto players hate him too?

here comes Pav

Don't remember the kick-off times being particularly ungodly for Mexico 86? I'm pretty sure the Hand of God game was on a Sunday afternoon (UK time), and England v Paraguay early evening. I have vague memories of seeing Wilkins get sent off and Robson injured on a Friday night (?) in a dreadful game in the group stages. The 3-0 with Lineker's goals must have been late and on a school night because I didn't see that live.

"assaulted by polanski" hm

kerzhakov has been pretty bad even disregarding his finishing

yeah the 3-0 was gone midnight
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i remember wilkins getting sent off on a friday as i was staying at my grans and she let me stay up .
Also remember being allowed to stay up on a schoolnight to see denmark beating scotland.

greece's attacking players are worse even than ireland's

i remember when samaras joined citeh he described it as a stepping stone to one of europe's biggest clubs

(onimo mutters something about jock stein)

Am I the only one watching Ch-Pol?

i'm watching it

poland offering nothing this half so far

lol I was just laughing at that classic Samaras break there, nice touch, rides a tackle, overruns the ball, has to challenge to keep it, somehow still has it, strides forward past another man, gets excited, shoots ridiculously wide from 30 yards, fixes his hair, expressionless.

His whole career in 10 seconds

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The analysis of the Greek goal was hilarious:

"Good goal"
"Keeper should've saved it in my view"

I can only assume they couldn't see the start of the clip in the studio.

xxxp - I am too, but it's not too much to write home about at present. Limbersky's looking bright, but no-one's really looking like scoring. It pretty much is what it is.

poland czech game is shite. lewandowski should've scored first half. that's about it. czech maybe on the front foot now?

If Greece votes anti-Europe tomorrow, wouldn't the team have to leave this tournament too?

yeah, Poland look out of ideas

yes

xps I'm pretty sure Eng-Arg 1986 was on a Sunday evening, 'cos I have a vivid memory of my pals coming to the door with about fifteen minutes to go, wanting me to come out & play football. I couldn't believe it - "nothing's going to happen now" they said.

they look scared now tbh xp

of limbarski for sure

czech gonna score now i think

The many pronunciations of Dzagoev have been a highlight of this tournament. Grampa Mick just tried "Saguraff".

lol samaras arguing with referee while gekas is open

poland gonna do a new zealand and go out unbeaten at this rate at best