EURO 2012

Dramatic ending, but Poland out

Czechs to the quarters

oh russiapaws

dirty cheating czech scum are through

"Dick Advocaat heading for PSV Eindhoven" fucking right, direct flight i'd imagine

and Greece too :-(

Oh, you've gorra laugh...

Jesus

Torture. These boring bastards have had every scrap of football luck this last decade.

am i the only one sort of gleeful about this turn of events?

fucking gadz

worst possible results.

greece. czech rep. both boring boring bastards. fuck

yes xp

At least they'll both be out in QFs

they had a player wrongfully sent off in the first game and a clear penalty denied tonight

luck shmuck

loving it! :)

You wouldn't mind if they offered some kind of entertainment, but they even made a fairytale victory into a pile of shit.

poland were dreadful, czechs have been the better team imo. greeks are shite but also deserved it and it's an underdog story or whatever.

Greece deserved to win. Scored, should have had a penalty, hit the crossbar. Russia were terrible.

You wouldn't mind if they offered some kind of entertainment

Have you not seen Angelos Charisteas try to dribble?

i don't mind greece this tourney. Hated them 2004.

Charisteas is the only thing missing at this party really :D

ts: 'greece is the word' vs. 'england is dreaming' ugh

also germany greece quarter final: the merkeling?

At least they'll be up against Germany next, can't see them doing more than committing to hold out for a 0-2.

england are a fucking shower of shit with a population eight times that of greece or whatever

omg @ Germany - Greece QF: one for the ages..

I haven't been so deflated by a night of football since that time Chelsea won the European Cup

russia have just always been liable to fuck up like this

Germany'll go out tomorrow & Holland through, somehow, if tonight's any guide.

murder on gdanskfloor

Apologise, Lineker

murder on gdanskfloor
:-) chapeau

Well done Greece - a lot of bullshit posts there. They play the tough stuff.

Russia were garbage.

Grudging acceptance after seeing those highlights. Still hate them though.

Why has Eastern Europe become a permanent football wasteland? Even Bulgaria and Romania offer nothing now.

tbh i'm annoyed they're through mostly because i'm already sick of the debt jokes

they all got democracies Ismael

er, Czechs are through..xp

...and Russia were fine until this match

Czechs are mitteleuropa, and Croatia's practically Italy

Hold on, I'm not having Russia held up as a counterexample

I thought Russia would go far in this tournament, thought their back four and midfield were well above average, just didn't account for quite such poor finishing.

I don't consider Russia Russia part of Eastern europe - to the east, but, they are just Russia.

I still have a formally iron curtain approach to these things so Czechs = Eastern. And again, middle Europe doesn't really exist as a 'footballing region'.

Croatia are def East!

Just saw a report on Greek election, guy was talking about a big day tom with car horns in the background...people are celebrating :-)

Tonight, Greece owns Europe.

it's almost as if the metaphorical concept of balkanization applied to states, because if one were to imagine all of the balkan countries together, why what a fine football team they would have

and by the same token, russia could have hleb, konoplyanka and mkhitaryan to add to their collection of ineffectual attacking midfielders

anyway heightened facetiousness isn't going to hide my disappointment here

greece might have one of the better cb pairings now? during the first half they were largely hidden behind the first line of defence but towards the end they looked solid...the pilsbury doughboy a schalke has been a prospect for years but former milan disappointment papastothopoulos looks like a canny fuck too, and he is pretty quick iirc

hm

the way they played in the first half was so defensive that one can assume vs germany or whoever they will play for 0 - 0

samaras might just about be a better dribbler than big angelos charisteas but he is worse in every other aspect

gekas is done too