Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

Those diagonal passes might work with really lethal wide players but if you're playing them to Sterling all the time you might as well be hoofing it into the stands.

a bunch of them have been more horizontal than diagonal, which doesn't help

but yeah I can see a "Rooney is the best approximation of a player we don't actually have" argument

Rooney also out of the team for tonight, along with Kane, Alli, Sterling, Walker and Rose. Vardy, Studge, Wilshere, Henderson, Clyne and Bertrand in.

No Rashford? I'm out

Conflicted abt which one to see

I only have ITV HD, and not ITV2 HD, so my mind was made up for me

Ramsayyyyyy!

Wooooooo Ramsey!

(Idk what's on what Ste, not in uk)

Ah I see :) Lovley finish.

That Joe Allen pass...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/07/article-2244650-165EA80A000005DC-92_634x412.jpg

That was nearly amazing from Henderson.

Loooool Taylor! 2-0

Wonderful oversight by Bale there

Oh my word. Get the fuck in!

Russia have utterly disgraced themselves in the tournament

^^ I think Taylor muttered that to himself after that godawful first try

Xp

https://youtu.be/mwFBWTRjhiE

Timing is off but you get the picture

Unbelievable miss there. Bale is rampant.

Russia is only, what, 300 times the size of Wales?

a quick google suggests it's over 800x as big, although only ~47x as populous

814 times

Xp

what abt india vs west indies

Despite Russian possession we should probably be 3 or 4 up at HT from some of the chances we've missed.

only 47x

after those pissy comments from ronaldo i went through the footballers from madeira wikipedia category to see if it could field a competitive team vs iceland (it is about 20% smaller) and i think it could probably do so

there's a reasonable contingent of minor primeira liga players and some from the second division, though no goalkeeper, but as well as ronaldo they could play ruben micael in midfield, and danny behind ronaldo

Yeah, hope Wales dont come to rue those missed chances. Though Russia are utter, utter shite. Should be a comfy win.

just noticed my youtube link didnt embed!

bc it was posted from mobile maybe?

from desktop this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwFBWTRjhiE

Starting to think Russia has some sweet dough riding on a loss here. They are throwing it.

this reminds me of a dunphy quote from 2008

"There's sort of a melancholy about the Russian psyche, a willingness to be beaten. Much like the Welsh..."

Ignatievich being subbed and noone wants the captains band o_O

Thats a decent quote Nakh

new ts

robert lewandowski or corey lewandowski

perfect way to amalgamate us elections and euros threads

This is way too suspicious

"wayne rooney is imminent"

imminentizing the everton

got to slow it down.

lol

sturridge looks a level ahead of the other england players

maybe it's just the parallax but that lofted crossfield pass seemed to be moving at twp footspeed until eventually it sailed out of bounds about 10ft above clyne's head

Bale 3-0

Welsh tiki taka

Oh yes.

Quality finish

this idea they have thrown it seems implausible given how well paid the best rpl players are and how evident it would be in the sums wagered, even discounting the political ignominy of it given that this team will be defending national honour in a couple of years

holy muva England are uninventive aren't they

Nakh, wasn't entirely serious obviously, but there's been some baffling anti-play, picking up of cards. Noone wanting to be captain after the captain got subbed said it all though: they deeply dread being on the pitch tonight.

Wish I was watching the Welsh game, this is deadly.