Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

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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.

maybe the death of gary speed symbolically enabled wales to become their own captain, whereas russia remain acephalic, confirming emmanuel todd's thesis about the essential congruity and irreducilibity of both fraternal egalitarianism and anti-authoritarianism in russian culture

this england game is just shit and boring what can i say

Slovakia playing for third place in the group, nice one UEFA.

Welsh crowd just 'wahey'd' 75 consecutive passes.

(The Dutch commentator counted along...)

hahaha that shot from 45 yards

question is, will the ITV/England curse strike ?

let's hope we can do this in a footballing way, because we've got all footballers out there at the moment

agree with that ftr

What England need is Andy Carroll.

1st/2nd probably doesn't make a huge amount of difference looking at potential opponents

you just feel his groin there

Utter dogshit

1st/2nd probably doesn't make a huge amount of difference looking at potential opponents

Yeah

opening draw vs russia looking more and more like a result for the brave england boys

the likely difference is that now england will play france in the quarter final instead of france, two roughly comparable teams, and even the home advantage of the latter is mitigated given that belgium would be playing in lille just across the border

this would change if portugal fuck up and end up second, but otherwise the last 16 teams would be weak in either case

(instead of belgium obviously)

symsym

lemme guess

you are using some data driven prediction tool

no way do i believe youre just guessing willy nilly

i smell bayesian inference on steroids

Anyone want to do anything as boring as listing the actual scores and scorers

wales 3-0 russia

ramsey
taylor
bale

england 0-0 slovakia

Andy Carroll >>>>>> Vardy/Studge/Rashford/Kane put together

Lololol

Please tell me ye dropped kane to achieve that

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13450257_1027788133924948_3467273865740818485_n.jpg?oh=1089b1bd71e47db9784bc9a73aad0b74&oe=57C69403

england dropped kane then shamefacedly brought him on with 15 minutes left

Andy Carroll >>>>>> Vardy/Studge/Rashford/Kane put together

I'm imagining a sort of Frankenstein's monster facing off against wor Andy. Possibly in a cage match scenario

Slutsky has resigned

that was dreamlike. Brazil / Germany-esque in terms of utter onesidedness btwn two ostensibly non-mismatched international sides

had the England game on pal's laptop, literally every time I got a glance of it it was a futile England corner on the right

it's almost as if roy hodgson is a clueless bumbling yes-man who is so good at lowering expectations that it's made him the longest serving english boss in the modern era.

really strange how nobody can gaf about wanting to sack the england manager anymore - it's like the job is an old abandoned shed and the fa are delighted to let hodgson give it a half-arsed lick of paint once a year.