stand up and walk off like pros, it's the first game you wankers
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
odd to see so plainly how much worse england are than spurs
― ogmor, Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Lol tho
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
what's not lol is the camera not cutting straight to that bull-necked mass of corned beef that had been bellowing "God Save the Queen" five minutes earlier
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
wd've been a sweet image
The state of Gary Cahill sitting in the middle of the pitch like he'd just lost the World Cup Final.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
#prayforMarseille
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
xp EXACKLY
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
agreed about the England players being overly dramatic about this but all the same, fucking whistles and jeers at the whistle for the best England tournament 90 minutes in two decades (injury time doesn't count), fuck off lads what are you thinking
i couldn't gaf about us going through(we almost certainly will go through, try as we might to fuck it up for ourselves) or about how far we go in the tournament, 3 entertaining performances and a group stage exit is 100000x more appealing rn than a snoozefest thru to the QF's, and that was an entertaining performance.
that was fun. never been able to say that about England in a tournament in my life, so far as i can recall. whistling them off after that. i hope the marseille riot police kick yr fckin heads in
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Daylight robbery, no justice for the England 11 there.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Aaaaand the English are up to fighting again, in the stands this time....
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
All those fighters that can fit into england shirts and still picking those two centre halves
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Lee Dixon, magnanimous
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
can't decide if i am more convinced by LBI's anti-English fan bias or the BBC's pro-English fan bias
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ianherbs/status/741736287737122817
― remain in the privacy of the booth (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
WD, I'm not anti-English by any means, but cmon. Check one Twitter etc. 'fans' behaving terribly.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Not just the players that shit the bed so
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Ha!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Caught the last twenty minutes. Genuinely amazed Russia got anything out of this but credit to Slutsky for shaping them into something resembling a team again.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
lol i was teasing really LBI, do not use twitter and no inclination to start, England fans abroad are always the worst and i would never try to defend that shit.
but on this particular occasion it does seem like they may have been more sinned against than sinning? no police in a stadium w/ unsegregated fan groups does seem a little wtf given the heightened security measures that have supposedly been put in place
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc
Reports and video. After letting off smoke bombs, Russian fans charged on England fans at full time.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Seems like some serious complacency from the hosts here, after all the shit that kicked off earlier there is no segregation?
― calzino, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Rooney, Dier and Lallana played great, btw.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
Yeah idk WD, Russia's fans tonight at least seem just as worse.
It just annoys me there's no mention of British fans destroying Marseille on here whatsoever. But whatevs.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
The poor bloke whose Twitter handle is @woy is taking it with good humour
https://twitter.com/woy/status/741715957161299968
― ailsa, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
Less of the "British" please LBI, ta
xpost
Here are some Welsh fans being nice:
https://twitter.com/photosofootball/status/741701073665183744
― ailsa, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
Noted, Ailsa, and you're right
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
Glad to see Wales fans being cool. I really enjoyed the atmosphere in their game.
― mizzell, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
French BeIN have just called Eric Dier 'Payet Anglais'
― mizzell, Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
Amazing.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Kicking off in Nice between some NI and Poland fans according to twitter reports.
― ailsa, Saturday, 11 June 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Yep. England / Russia and Poland / NI are probably the two worst ties of the first stage for potential fan violence so it might calm down after this weekend.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 11 June 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
"the best England tournament 90 minutes in two decades"
Second half was pretty drab fwiw.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 June 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
Is Poland/NI a Catholic v Proddie thing or is there another reason?
― a goon shaped fule (onimo), Saturday, 11 June 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Xpost Yeah most def, had been drinking and regretted that as soon as i posted it.
Still, it was much better than usual, and I maintain that if we do that twice more and don't get out the group that'd be preferable to blagging our way to the latter stages the way we have for the past x # of tournaments
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 11 June 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Reading now that NI/Poland isn't them fighting each other but both sets of fans being set upon by locals
― ailsa, Saturday, 11 June 2016 23:08 (eight years ago) link
this.
― mark e, Saturday, 11 June 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
I was actually living in London during Euro '96 and can recall getting a late bus to Plumstead from work and witnessing the post Germany defeat kristallnacht that seemed to have occurred everywhere. Football hooligans are such grim beasts. I used to meet some great people travelling away, but also some of the worst people ever as well.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 June 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
Obviously got hugely carried away last night ito praising the England performance as best in decades or w/e, touch of the sun perhaps, but I have nevertheless been genuinely amazed at the amount of criticism I'm seeing leveled at Hodgson and some of the players this morning - a mess, tactically inept, a demoralising start to a tournament etc.
have these cunts not watched England play at a major tournament in the past 12 years? have they forgotten the 0-0 draw with Algeria? 1-1 USA? 1-0 win scraped against Ukraine in 2012? the 0-0 and penalty exit against Italy? so we were naive last night and we didn't put away our chances against obviously vulnerable opposition. so fucking what really? what's that set against a decade or more of uninterrupted tournament tedium? constant fuckin tedium.
how long have these guys been saying hang the results, all we want is for an England team to turn up at a major tournament and just show a bit of passion, a bit of enterprise, just try to actually play some attacking football? some cunts will never be fucking happy.
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 12 June 2016 06:59 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, you could quite easily score 3 or 4 in one of your games if you keep playing like that. Just hope it's not Thursday
― groovypanda, Sunday, 12 June 2016 07:05 (eight years ago) link
first half was as good as i can remember watching England play in a tournament, maybe going to back to beating the Netherlands in 1996, which i don't exactly recall with clarity.
this reaction is the real problem with England - i can't believe every other country responds to a 1-1 draw in the first match of a group as if it's a national disaster. that was real progress for the team last night, and for the first time in i don't know how long i wished them well, mostly.
defence was an accident waiting to happen but that's all about the available players. Rooney mostly acquitted himself well but is still completely unnecessary. some of the attacking players had better games than others but nobody was out of their depth. some tweaking necessary and some tactical acknowledgement that this squad isn't built for holding onto narrow leads.
no big deal. probably get thrown out of the tournament anyway. journalists and hoolies deserve each other.
― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 June 2016 07:56 (eight years ago) link
Windsor Davies 100% OTM
― remain in the privacy of the booth (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 12 June 2016 10:53 (eight years ago) link
Yep. Also the youngest team at the tournament so expecting flawless performances rather than a base to build from is ridiculous.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 12 June 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
All very positive but worth bearing in mind that Russia are pish.
― a goon shaped fule (onimo), Sunday, 12 June 2016 12:11 (eight years ago) link
england were decent, although i'm not as sold on them as WD. The control in midfield was promising helped by the 2 wide forwards, unfortunately this positive is countered by the fact that the control they help foster means england play 2 wide frwds one of which lallana pretty much never scores and the other sterling can't finish which means they're relying on kane to score and he looked a little off it last night.
― pandemic, Sunday, 12 June 2016 12:15 (eight years ago) link
looking frwd to seeing croatia this afternoon
― pandemic, Sunday, 12 June 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
Drop sterling and kane, play rashford and students instead. Problem solved. Looking forward to Croatia too, my each way bet for the tournament.
― ewar woowar (or something), Sunday, 12 June 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
Studge not students