EURO 2012

I love those glancing headers from beyond the front post. Second only to full stretch diving Henriks.

<3 that kid's response to the goal

Yeah he was great.

I kind of like the fact that Jonathan Pearce clearly makes the effort to flick through a Lonely Planet guide before overseas matches.

Celtic defender Lustig was shite on the near post for that goal :(

guy on the post really should have blocked that 2nd goal
xp

my son reckons Zlatan looks like the Guy Fawkes mask in V for Vendetta :)

Haha!

wow

Ukraine were far too eager pressing there, they had five men beyond the Swedish back line for an instant. They want to calm down a little.

"Liverpool were interested in him...but £13m for someone who has never been a prolific goalscorer.."
Erm...

Guy Fawkes mask versus
https://p.twimg.com/AvIn4EDCEAEp6oS.jpg

yeah that was disturbing

y'know Voronin has actually been pretty good tonight

yah
Wilhelmsson's been decent since he's come on also

fuuuuck

Elmander, eh?

Oh what a move. useless finish

"Elmaaaaaandohgoodnessme!"

zlatan needs to be passing to himself

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So pleased.

Well that turned out really good. I'm glad (apologies to sonderangerbot)

now in gif form

http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa356/fugexlac/ukrainekid.gif

can easily see England managing the traditional 3 draw exit now

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the brilliant late 90s lobanovskyi team and especially shevchenko were favourites when i was a kid

i thought he would work at chelsea and was quite disappointed by the way he faded out while van nistelrooy, inzaghi, raul have endured

so, very pleased to see him revivified tonight

we could be saying the same thing about Torres at the 2020 Euros

...in Ireland

yeah

it would be nice if he could maybe rush ahead eight years and give us a preview

get a psychologist to help him envision, twp style, the fresh faced 36 year old torres as he nips ahead of serial capocannoniere john guidetti to score at the near post

May have teared up a bit at the shot of Voronin and Sheva hugging shortly before the end.

@Joey7Barton - Buy a Daily Mail and read Mr Samuel, he's put u bac in y cage, can understand u slaggin henderson off if u were any better!

@paulwatson78 only idiots buy the daily mail. Samuel knows as much about football as I have forgotten during Sweden Ukraine 1st half.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60839000/jpg/_60839670_player.jpg

what does 'possession' mean such that these two managed to get a total of ~77~ seconds between them?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5gnpblXi01qb0ctno1_400.png

Maybe this has already been mentioned, and we are getting ahead of ourselves here, but if England and France (say) end up with identical records in this group, it comes down to the UEFA National Coefficients Table, and this seems to be the latest one:

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/General/01/69/56/52/1695652_DOWNLOAD.pdf

So England would get third?

HAHA

I see what you've done there.

"Agincourt, Waterloo and now Donetsk."

Uhhhhhhh, so that was England v. France at Waterloo was it? Don't know for sure, but I imagine there were also Scots at Agincourt... fighting for France.

I'm with (Big) Patrick (Vieira) in expressing astonishment that anyone would think this French side are anything special - they've got Florent Malouda in the side for a start - they look like a bunch of lightweights to me.

'i thought he would work at Chelsea and was quite disappointed by the way he faded out'

eh, I said this a year ago and you said'beginning to slow and not so much of a thread outside the box ... an overripe vanity purchase for abramovich.'

Well that turned out really good. I'm glad (apologies to sonderangerbot)

― Ismael Klata, den 11 juni 2012 22:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no worries, i'm happy for sheva too tbh. our defending on set pieces has been a joke for a long time and he did well to pick up on that. it's just that leading up to the euros there's been all this talk of a new confidence and a more attack-minded approach etc, and even if i knew this was all nonsense, i was at least hoping for little more than a sub-lagerbäck performance.

did you watch shevchenko in 05/06? he had become an rvn/inzaghi type of player, a lethal finisher (scored 4 vs galatasaray iirc) but was beginning to slow and not so much of a threat outside the box....rvn moved in the right direction that summer, sheva made an overripe vanity purchase for abramovich

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:15 PM (10 months ago)

there isn't a contradiction, £30m was an awful lot of money for a 30 year old forward with injury problems but he nonetheless ought to have been capable of scoring 15 epl goals a season for two or three years

he suddenly lost his lethal finishing which was quite inexplicable, and it was even worse when he moved back to milan

him moving back to milan was the saddest part of it all, had forgotten about that.

no goals in 18 serie a games

what are sweden going to do now btw? they need to do something, anyway

They need to beat England

Wee Gordon saying it took him two years to work out Sami's best position - and still he gets it wrong.

Greece: Chalkias, Torosidis, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Katsouranis, Holebas, Fotakis, Maniatis, Karagounis, Salpingidis, Samaras, Fortounis. Subs: Tzorvas, Tzavelas, Malezas, Makos, Liberopoulos, Mitroglou, Gekas, Ninis, Fetfatzidis, Sifakis.

Czech Republic: Cech, Gebre Selassie, Sivok, Kadlec, Limbersky, Hubschman, Plasil, Jiracek, Rosicky, Pilar, Baros. Subs: Lastuvka, Suchy, Hubnik, Necid, Rezek, Petrzela, Rajtoral, Kolar, Pekhart, Lafata, Darida, Drobny.

who should be subbed out first for ninis/fetfatzidis? samaras?

Nothing wrong with supporting your country but we now have ITV showing footage of Zlatan having his thigh strapped and saying "let's hope that's worse than it looks."

Fuck these clowns.