no tempo other than frantic
Unfair, there's leaden and half-arsed as well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 June 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
it's all the fault of the modular curriculum. michael gove will have this team back to former glories soon enough.
xxxxp
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
international football's kind of like a school's end of year concert/prizegiving. this is what we've done, and this is what we have to show for it. with spain and germany you can see the result of the changes they've made, the emphasis they've placed on skill and technique, the investment in coaching and training facilities. they mightn't win it, but you can see where those countries are in terms of development, structure, identity etc. what have england learnt at school this year?
― Chris, Friday, June 22, 2012 5:01 PM (1 minute ago)
totally
even ukraine, the archetypal 'nothing amazing' side, have a neatness, a sense of purposive movement that probably derives from lobanovskyi and that whole school of universal-interopable player/robots, they generally made good use of their few talented players and it clear what they are at least trying to achieve
england just look like a load of violent remedial kids who have been dosed with lucozade and forced to watch the al pacino speech in any given sunday 400 times
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
i guess we'll be getting andrey back
Zenit owner Golubev asked reporters: "How can a citizen of Russia treat the honour of his country like that?
"He should be deported."
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think Golubev owns Zenit, he just works for Gazprom - which does. I wouldn't be surprised if he stays there.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnL3_C3UFs
this needs to be here tbh
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
It was true then. Schurrle, Reus and Klose in
― Number None, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
What are they up to?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
gott in himmel zuviel kleine hunde wo sind die nationalmannschaftkaiserlichehunde?
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Achtung Deutschland
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
gutsy selection
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
chiselled out of granite....like a greek....statue
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www10.pic-upload.de/22.06.12/gi6visizlaej.jpg
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Looking frwd to seeing Reus. Jogi with balls of steel.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
did they mention reus or schurrle at all in the intro
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
No
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
but they are all 'good' players apparently
bail-out reus political significance justin bieber greece hate germany bath salts schurrle
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/ibkhWH0ls3ZEgS.jpg
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
hes just gone and done him early doors there he has
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure about that.
Just.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
good call
― Number None, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
A reducer.xp
oh offside
balls of steel is rong, picking fresh v good players instead of maybe less fresh v good players isn't exactly a shocker
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
if reus? had got that instead then he was onside
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
still offside if he didn't touch it
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
schurrle active by dint of kicking keeper in gob
Khedira and Reus were right on top of each other. Doesn't matter who scored it
― Number None, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
or Schurrle even
Anyone got a better stream than watcheuro2012live.org? Nothing BBC cos I'm in China...
― Oz, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
did reus or schurrle play well against werder and schalke last season? might have figured for low
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, June 22, 2012 7:50 PM (6 minutes ago)
yeah but this isn't like ferguson fielding the kids for a home game vs west brom in between cl ties, can you remember a managing swapping an entire frontline for an international knockout tie?
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
this team looks better already
― Number None, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
oz somewhere here you should find something http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=159973&part=sports
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Reus had a goal in the home game and an assist in the away game vs Schalke.
xxp
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
nakh - no, usually they do it for the third game of the group. it is rare a country has so many good interchangable players tho, how many teams in the past ten years could do this confidently? spain. brazil... maybe? argentina have lots of good strikers i guess.
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Samaras hardmanning his way through the German team <3
― onimo, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
i guess brazil 02-04 and maybe france 00-02 would be able to do it.
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
noted pandemic
a hoy yeah it requires a rare level of depth but probably a few of the top teams could have done it -- i think 'interchangeable' is key tho
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
crap finish great footbll
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Almost beautiful, but he shouldn't miss that
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
blimey that would have been the goal of the century
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Good save. Can the commentators not see deflections? It makes the keeper's job murderous, but all they get is 'he's made a mess of that'
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
shit. c'mon.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
ooof.
ok yeah interchangable maybe not the right word, although it totally applies here w/ lots of v good technique, smart attacking athletic types
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Punish Them!
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
It won't be 0-0 much longer. You'd rather be building up this pressure at 25 mins than 85.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
If Germany can score before half-time they should get 3 or 4.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link