Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

"since i can't score anymore, i need to play in a position where i'm less likely to score"

with any luck he can get an injury before the first match and take up the beckham 2010 world cup on the bench wearing a suit

FYI
England's midfield etc

rooney should play left wing.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:52 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he used to quite a bit for Utd. And he was good

called it 11 years ago

spain's squad made me a bit sad because quite a few of the veterans of their great triumphs are gone: torres, xavi, xabi alonso, david villa

and yet Casillas is still there

altho he has been gaffe prone at times i can't say I've seen him play for porto at all and so can't really comment on the form he's in

can't say I have either but this happened a few months back

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/porto-president-slates-iker-casillas-7566556

For the first time in a decade or so not thát impressed with Germany's squad, especially the forwards. Muller is there, but not sure Mario Gomez and Podolski ar still of any real use. (I say this fully aware that Podolski lives for these tournaments, but still). Also puzzled at why Reus was left out. Even with one leg he's still better than Schweini.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Dienstag, 31. Mai 2016 19:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. One can only assume Reus' injury is way worse than reported, though Löw's general stance towards the fitness of players compared to their assumed moral value is rather inconsistent.
Doubt Schweinsteiger is able to repeat his impact on the latter games in 2014 after such a terrible season, Podolski, Schürrle, Götze, Draxler all with underwhelming performances this year plus still literally all wing-back options after two years of trying to find a successor to Lahm are improvisations with varying degrees of shakiness.

Still, the axis Neuer - Boateng - Khedira/Kroos - Özil - Müller seems in good shape and might make for up it as long as they stay healthy.

This Belgium Finalnd friendly is pretty terrible. Not sure if playing Jan and Toby as fullbacks is the biggest problem but it certainly seems strange. Wilmots also apparently has said that Fellaini is their biggest goal threat. They now seemed destined to be another golden generation that doesn't win anything.

I hate myself and am therefore watching the Poland vs Holland friendly. Holland leading by an easy peasy header from Janssen (who will be scooped up by a 5-10th place PL side this summer, underperform terribly and to never be heard of again), and both sides don't seem to have a clue what football is. Loving it.

Wilmots doesn't know what to do with them but it seems the Belgian FA can't get or afford anyone else atm (not even better domestic coaches)

Cantona on Deschamps suing him: "It's the first time he will go from a defensive position to an offensive position."

lol this England formation is fucked

Other than Hodgson and TWP himself there isn't a single person who thinks that Alli wouldn't be better suited to playing behind the front two.

how the fuck can this be allowed to happen

wtf!

(Bruno Alves sent off for a HEAD HIGH kung fu kick on Harry Kane)

No easy games in international football:

Croatia 10 San Marino 0
France 3 Scotland 0 (at half time)

holland dispatching former tournament dark horses austria makes me feel 3% better about poland's shit performance the other night

Ryan Maxwell ‏@TheeRFS Jun 4
2016 Ridiculous Soccer Almanac.pdf - Google Drive #CopaAmerica #EURO2016 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UyhZNN6pi2MUZCbG16QzhkWlk/view …

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Michael Cox ‏@Zonal_Marking 1h
@TheeRFS what is this?!

Ryan Maxwell ‏@TheeRFS 1h
@Zonal_Marking Euro and Copa Almanac I put together. Thought you might enjoy it.

wow

Michael Cox ‏@Zonal_Marking 1h
Big fan of the variety of information in this

lol

pls move to I Love Cooking

this is wonderful

http://i.imgur.com/sd2e5Ssl.jpg

haha

Fucking spoilers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g

Some wishful thinking in the 'ENGLAND - expected tactics' section

ENGLAND (Mango Chutney)

this is a work that transcends scholarship and probably deserves a prison sentence or a knighthood

he did one for the women's world cup last year too, in whose contents page can be found

50 Ports

Inspired by a blurb I wrote about Vancouver, I found a list of the largest shipping ports in the world and listed them here.

ok and *now* I find his tour de france board game

I find it very inspirational, even the errors and peculiarities are evidence of a certain sort of singular vision and effort that is charming and ambitious

comprehensive without the pretense of being definitive

also seems very in keeping with the gently weird spirit of cosmopolitanism you get with international football

as always, I'm stoked

i'm almost crying

was going to suggest an ilx meet up to play that but the appeal of the idea faded somewhere around page 78

http://i.imgur.com/kM3eoPx.png

Poland's preparations still going well.

Can't be much worse than Czech Republic, who were absolutely awful against S. Korea yesterday. Wales also looked terrible against Sweden but Bale only played the last twenty minutes or so.

https://twitter.com/rightbankwarsaw/status/739806483223879680

blasphemy is cultural progress of sorts tbfttl

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/676a78446280ed417584058ef5c7a7b2ddf660ee/0_20_2864_1719/master/2864.jpg?w=1920&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=0422aba68c35a2ee1841fb851b0a581b

seriously Cantona can go eat a bag of bites.

I'm starting to reconsider my hopeful punt on Iceland.

https://thisonesforyou.com/artwork-share.png

Spain have somehow contrived to lose to Georgia, who you could have had at 29/1.

Spain doesn't have a single decent striker or forward, that's their problem.

Morata? although he didnt have a good season

same with Costa

oh wait Costa isnt on the squad

I have taken the plunge and started a BBC predictor league, if you like.

http://bbc.in/1tjX1Wo