EURO 2012

Pique ... hasn't looked right for nine months now.

― boxall, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:20 (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Word is he was getting back to form at the end of the season, no? And he's been fine up until tonight. Maybe Shakira is in attendance. Either way off-form Pique is still better than most centre-halves.

not for me! I'm firmly with Spain
xp

Ramos is getting dicked on tonight. He could easily get sent off.

I thought he was awful in the CL semifinals, though I didn't particularly notice him against Italy or France in this tournament.

perriera is an "angry man" apparently. In general not just on occasion.

Klinnsman's English is so American, now.

Is Almeida a ringer for ilx's Lord Soto or am I imagining it?

Ref shite. Game good.

Why are the beeb studio guys constantly all talking at once tonight? so weird.

ignorance/ego

Ronaldo whets their fancy?

Negredo was a terrible choice.

Fabulous touches in that break. This deserves a better audience.

No reds please ref

This is getting kinda weird.

this ref is ruining what is a fine match.

He reads and stuff and has a nice beard and plays a v. ilx friendly way and all but the one thing I really do love about Xabi Alonso is his one attempt per game to lob a keeper from the half way line.

Portugal getting squeezed in the middle now

cheap free kick

xabi alonso is v handsome
game recognize game

also all the flopping in this game makes me feel at home watching Manu ginobili, only there's like 7 of him

Cool insight bro

Portugal need to put a lid on this petulant, niggly shit, it's so often their undoing

i know we have done it before but 'flopping' is such an ugly (and non-football) word

Argh, that was it

bad pass, shit finish

What's up with Ronaldo's shooting this game?

cronny?
ronny!
oh, ronald...

'flopping' is perfect though, it should be used

That would have been incredible.

Coentrao is player of the tournament imo.

no one can give a good end pass

not like this

no it shouldnt

xps

this ref really wishes this is portugal-holland06

I love cracking 0-0s

what a thriller

wtf, the pundits really think that was shit?!

fuck off lineker, christ

"it's...a bit like chess" - Martin Keown

Coentrao is player of the tournament imo.

He's been really solid

oh fuck off lineker. i hate hate HATE this BBC 'there were no goals so it was shit' mentality. that was an intense game of tactics. spain didn't have an off day (bar negredo), they were played out of the game.

"portugal come out and they play and they wanted to play and i'll tell you something tactically they played better not as good as spain did but well, they did well"

How was that shit?! Spain's tiki-taka has been neutralized for once by a country with the temerity to actually not only mess with their possession game but run at them. If football isn't chess then it's just a bunch of guys kicking a ball stupidly.

No way are Portugal finishing with eleven men imo, that'll be what settles it

spain didn't have an off day (bar negredo), they were played out of the game.

I'm not watching BBC but Spain are having an off day to an extent, even though Portugal have been very good

MW – Spain still kept possession like 60% of the time, didn't they?

It's precisely Lineker's attitutde that makes the English nat'l side tend to play below top standards

Sure, remy but to what effect?

Holding Spain to 60% is an achievement xxp.