Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

The stotting origi

Well played.

there there

yeahhhhh forza italia

leo bonucci the best playmaker in dis whole thing

Inevitable goal to deny my 1-0 prediction

lol belgium are cack, how bad a coach is mark wilmots really

Wrongest I've been. Love Italy

how can you possibly have these players for 4+ years and still be this shit

Pelle like

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GKJi3lC31ws/hqdefault.jpg

saw the last ten minutes. what would have been called an 'instructive game' had it been chess

Wrongest I've been. Love Italy

― The Brexit Club (Noodle Vague), Monday, June 13, 2016 10:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Italians are walking up to the Belgians one by one and explaining what they did to their mothers last night.

buffon might be the greatest modern sportsman

he can certainly sing an anthem

4 reel idek how Marc Wilmots has this job, 4 years with this group of players ought to be enough to drill them into working order surely

obviously the juventus defence is gonna win this shit outright but even so

nobody embodies the wild glory of sport more successfully

At kick-off I said "that's the best pound for pound first team in the competition but..."

Would fancy Irelands chances against Belgium on the back of that perf but Belgium surely wont be that shite again

italy good but stoke would win this competitiom tbrr

whelan and shaqiri been shit-hot so far tru

over the next 6 days i will be documenting what cypriot ppl seem to think of each euro team, shame i wasn't in the country for england-russia tho

Hazard and debruyne wont be up against juve lads would ye not be talkin shite

Clark will score an og hattrick at the sight of lukaku

Sorry im pissed

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fwiw LJ the Cypriot ppl i have been speaking to this week (am currently holidaying not far from Pahpos) have been distinctly unimpressed with everyone, cept for the Irish, the French and the Germans

idk what this tells us about Cypriots generally, tbh i think they are collectively bitter that their name keeps getting brought up as evidence of the immense togetherness of this Wales squad and the next-level footbballing ability of Gareth Bale

Sorry im pissed

oh sweet, we're in Limassol, will be in Paphos in 2 days. some cypriots were watching italy/belgium quite intently, got the feeling they were rooting for the italians? idk

some (largely hopeless?) spirit of southern-European togetherness perhaps?

am way out of my comfort zone commenting on such things as i'm not particularly worldly or well-travelled, but it does strike me that there is a certain fellow-feeling between yr Cypriots, yr Sicilians, yr Neapolitans and Irish (who i guess are southern European in every important sense other than geographically) which might lead to a certain kind of automatic disdain for the naturally dispassionate and arrogant northern Europeans, scared of themselves and of what they might achieve if they were to really cut loose. except for the germans of course, everyone fears the germans

idk these are somewhat drunken impressions formed over somewhat liquid dinners

Invaded island status

top of the predictor league bitches

eh, the only way a guy could possibly be top of the predictor league at this stage is if he was a pessimistic bastard anticipating constant low-scoring bores; better to be optimistic and wrong imo

Grats on being top bitch that must be very nice

hate fumes never smelled so sweet

Despite the 2-0 result, Wilmots was critical of Antonio Conte’s approach to the game.

“Italy specifically played on the counter-attack. They did not play real football and when faced with everyone sitting back, it becomes difficult.

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Love Italy

Always. At every tournament that Scotland aren't playing at, which is every tournament.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/14/sepp-blatter-european-competition-draw-was-rigged-by-cooling-balls?CMP=share_btn_tw

every man u champions league draw explained

For someone who has never done that, he really seems to know exactly how it goes, and what it feels like.

Irony

if they were irony you could use some sort of magnet

cold irony balls

a much loved ODB joint

I never touched the balls, something that others did.

But did they smell their fingers just after?

Russia get suspended disqualification:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36528403

Going to cause something of a headache if they do get thrown out:

http://www.joe.co.uk/sport/heres-why-russia-getting-disqualified-could-actually-destroy-euro-2016/66787

article should be titled 'Here's why Russia getting disqualified would be fairly straightforward'

yeah well look lads if anyone had thought to ask a Villa fan what happens when you let Ciaran Clark join in we could've told you

― Windsor Davies, Monday, 13 June 2016 17:32 (Yesterday) Permalink

Clark well out of his depth alright. But weve nursed worse centre halves through tournaments before

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 13 June 2016 17:49 (Yesterday) Permalink

own goal aside, i thought Clark played well yesterday

own goal and attempted own goal.

i thought the whole team was p good but got murdered down the left flank - i would be very worried about what italy will do down that side if we are as narrow against them. a really stupid panic after (our) goal too. like we were scared of winning.

i mean italy's left, our right

Anything of interest in the Hapsburg Derby later?