EURO 2012

He was offside when Modric(?) played it in though

not quite a defending masterclass, this game

wouldn't call that offside

he was offside when the ball was first played in and i'd say he gained advantage from it

― 'Last Moments Robot' Comforts You To Death (Noodle Vague), Sunday, June 10, 2012 9:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He was offside when Modric(?) played it in though

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, June 10, 2012 9:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just interviewed the linesman who had to call that a week ago about the Euro's, he's from around here.

croatia have been good last 20 mins, modric has moved further up the pitch

That aggressive high-fiving from the Croatian subs was a bit naff.

I think Tyldesley must be stationed in Ukraine - this is Drury's second commentary of the tournament. Clive's probably getting wheeled out for England with, for me, Andy Townsend, to be fair. Trying to think who ITV's fourth commentator will be - they've drafted in Jon Champion, but he was on earlier.

Will say this for them, though - the one thing BBC clearly have over them this tournament is the option to switch to 5 Live commentary on red button. And even then, you've still got a better-than average chance of Alan Green.

Ireland clearly have one attacking tactic and one dour one, and we switched after equalising, for no sensible reason whatsoever.

I don't think I've ever read an interview with a linesman before, sounds like Frost/Nixon

you'll need to do a follow-up on that one now LBI

Ah no, it wasn't offside; I didn't realise there'd been about three Irish touches, I thought it was a straight deflection.

Is Chris Kamara in every advert nowadays?

his fees are probably quite reasonable.

Irish tv pointing to a v subtle foul on ward for the second goal. Maybe a case to be made.

Amused by Robbie Keane berating the ref in the tunnel. Never change Robbie.

given with the header

Lovely goal, except the comedy ending

mandzukic has played better tonight than i've ever seen him play in the bundesliga

This looks like a whipping in the making now.

Ireland need to cling on these next couple of mins

did drury just try to provide comfort by pointing out ireland got 3 against andorra?

Cox and Walters on. Would have preferred to see McClean.

ireland have decided to start playing again

cox close to seal-dribbling past the defender there

Clear penalty

modric

Damien Duff is looking comfortably the best Ireland player on the pitch.

niko time

Loving St Ledger's continual "BE A MAN" gesticulating at Mandzukic.

you'll need to do a follow-up on that one now LBI

― Ludo, Sunday, June 10, 2012 9:43 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I will, probably already next week ;)

beautiful stuff

Croatia look beautiful in this game but if Italy play as directly and physically as they did against Spain then they'll comfortably beat them. As will Spain.

yeah these CBs will struggle big time vs italy/spain. Think croatia will go all out vs italy next up. It'll be a cracker.

I think I just saw Deems, dressed up as a Leprechaun... :-/

He isn't dressed up

lol

Spain are quite capable of not winning against Croatia imo, though I'd fancy them against Ireland

Dunno, I've been surprised by how many opportunities ireland have created tonight. Croatia aren't that good i don't think.

Croatia aren't that good at the back.

That's a pretty shitty way to lose. I thought Ireland did mostly okay, but there's not much point when you give away goals like that.

He isn't dressed up

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:27 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

Croatia are rubbish...

Trap out

So disappointed with how poorly we played. I could handle the defeat if I thought they played to their ability but few players came out of that with any credit. O'Shea, Duff and Keane were particularly poor.

Andrews was good.

Cox on for McGeady was inexplicable and had a negative effect.

We didn't even defend well. That said all three goals had elements of freakishness to them.

yeah, we were shite but we were also hard done by. I'm assuming Trap just took McClean to the tournament to merk the lot of us

They didn't look like they had the organisation to make anti-football work against the best passing sides or the players to really do anything else for long periods of a match. Duff looked the most composed but rarely saw much of the ball. Andrews can't be faulted for effort but just doesn't have the quality to do any real damage.

At this stage, i'm not sure what Trap would have to lose by just trying to fit McGeady and McClean in the same team and using pace to unsettle Italy and Spain. They're too ponderous at the moment to make long-ball football pay off.

ROI weren't too great at the back, can't put much blame on Givens like everyone in the pub was doing though. Croatia had awesome attacking strength. Dickheads in the crowd once again almost ruining a game this tourno.

I'm watching Cheers, which features an Irish bartender named "Malone"

Iniesta unplayable according to Colin Murray

Unplayable in what sense? thought he was brilliant tonight

unplayable means impossible to play/defend against.

in the parlance of our times