Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

(that was me doing Fanny Murphy, thought yours was deliberate)

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Danny Murphy sounds like a man contemplating his mortality from the bottom of a commentary box gin right now.

why aren't you all streaming espn

blech, not a great day of football

good omen to be able to score so neatly at a canter

https://twitter.com/picchiodibrutto/status/742091786047344640

I feel Lööööw

I think his name means 'little cabbage' but that may need fact checking.

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yeah. seemed unusual all the same so i asked my mum about it: "peasant name, i dunno"

different ways to take the jogi scenes. on a personal level it deepens the vague perv kyle machlachlanism (gas mask tubed directly into trousers next match?) more generally the class/degenerate thing accurately reflects the unsettling vibe of this german side, totally slack ruthless champions

The scent of victory.

On the metro just now hordes of both Sweden and Ireland fans on the way to the game already I suppose. One guy was wearing an Irish flag around his shoulders...well, it was half flag and half Guinness advert. He also had a Swedish flag painted on his face. Hoping the thread can clear this up for me (or for him)

Milner was also full of praise for England's performance against Russia, insisting that it was the best by any team in the tournament so far.

"I think if you look at all the other games in the tournament so far, only one has really stood out and (we) put in a really good performance,"

god i hope Spain lose this

ITV have worked their magic on you?

lol is that what they've been saying? only just tuned in. i just thoroughly dislike a lot of this Spanish team. Iniesta and Morata exceptions, don't know enough about Nolito to comment on way or the other

xpost Are they anti-Spain? Thank fuck I can avoid those ITV cunts.

LOL, I was thinking the opposite, I didn't see it, but I can imagine them spending 30 minutes slavering over Spain and Spanish football and tiki taka and, "Who are they playing again? Czechoslovakia?" The sort of approach that turned a nation off Brazil and Brazilian football had them cheering the Germans on, in pubs up and down the land, as they demolished them 7-1.

Well there was a lot of criticism about Spain being conservative and boring in the 2010 WC

tyldesley seemed to be endorsing the view of the czech rep. manager that how spain play is no longer a novelty and teams know what to expect now...as if they somehow didn't in 2012.

iniesta is still iniesta enough to thrill

very arsenal @ the emirates performance from spain so far

some of this stuff is lovely mind you

So still 0-0 then?

for such a bloated tournament it's shameful that they're not giving me a 2 o'clock kick off to watch tmrw.

really thought silva would bag that

This is painful.

Amazing tackle there though.

lol thiago dawdles instead of shooting. AGAIN. great tackle tho'.

i still really enjoy watching spain play tbh. gonna end nil-nil tho'

3 nil nils should send spain through.

iniesta has been sublime this whole match. thought kroos was good yesterday but iniesta and modric have been beautiful

there it is
justice for the spain 11

cue czech goal in stoppage time

very 2010

I recorded the Spain match, but know the score. Is it worth watching?

“I don’t see anything wrong with the fans fighting,” Igor Lebedev wrote on Twitter. “Quite the opposite, well done lads, keep it up!”

Lebedev, who sits on the executive committee of the Russian football union, is an MP from the nationalist Liberal Democratic party and the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament.

“I don’t understand those politicians and officials who are criticising our fans. We should defend them, and then we can sort it out when they come home,” Lebedev wrote in a series of tweets.

“In nine out of 10 cases, football fans go to games to fight, and that’s normal. The lads defended the honour of their country and did not let English fans desecrate our motherland. We should forgive and understand our fans,” Lebedev told the news agency.

this guy eh?

Legend.

like omg guys

First "whelan no footballer" moment

Must designate a codeword im not typing that forty times every game

oh shit has it kicked off? good god i've mucked up my work timings

Igor Lebedev is the son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky fwiw so public brawling in far more refined fora than the streets of Marseille is in the blood.

what's this about the eiffel tower shining the colours of ireland if they get the most #irl tags on socialmedia/instagram?

won't in-real-life tags get in the way

o wait this is footie i forgot nothing makes sense

Ireland look decent enough.

They sure do. That Hendrick lad is alright.

McCarthy the weak link in that midfield. His technique is very poor for a 10-15m rated player and his tackling is poorly judged more often than not.

Great from Ireland i thought. Hope we dont slack off

Yeah McCarthy has been shite

@ work, so relying on you lads to keep me abreast of developments

Yeah!

Lovely goal for houlihan

Ireland playing as well as i can recall in a tournament. Creating and making the most of chances, swedish goalie busy all game