Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

Looking at permutations, I reckon Wales get Czech Republic next and England probably Iceland/Hungary as much as I'd love to see the look on Ronaldo's face as England put two or three past Portugal.

Yeah,I suspect that England will get Iceland. So expect the Slovakia game again, but against a side with a much better chance of nicking a goal.

and a Charlton player

Although if Portugal and Iceland both win 1-0 then it would be Portugal.

xp

Portugal would be sweet. Cron in his element!

Lol @ commentator quoting seamus Heaney as an introduction.

this is ugly

'Some disturbing news ...

Reports are circulating that Croatian fans are planning further disturbances during tonight’s match, including an attack on referee Bjorn Kuipers in the 30th minute.

“We have information that the same people that caused trouble in St. Etienne will try the same, and even try to attack the referee in 30th minute of the match,” said Nikola Kajkic, president of the Croatian Police Union.'

from the guardian live chat thingy

Lovely Morata goal.

Yeah looks like there's some extra police support at the Croatian end

holy shit that Rakitic chip

criminal that didn't go in

Otm

Pericic! Let the fire works commence.

No, some other -ic. Sweet back heel though.

kalinic is rightly going to obtain the patronage of a hoy hoy as THE NEXT ZLATAN sometime next season after a backheel thru the legs of kieran gibbs, followed by a £16m january move to juventus and a bidone d'oro

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:16

Wales Albania very much on the cards at the moment

no fuckin way

YEsss

Clear peno

Ref that leave srna on the pitch there is a disgrace and needs to be cited

Srna didn't concede it.

He clearly knew where Ramos was going to hit it somehow and told the keeper.

why can't ronaldo and ramos have started missing penalties 3 weeks ago ffs

I wasnt talking about the concession

Lol

2 sweeeeeeet

XD

Robin Ivan Perisic

So that's Italy, Spain, Germany, France and England in the same half of the draw

Croatia deserved that solely because of their great anthem.

(Have we polled the anthems?)

So that's Italy, Spain, Germany, France and England in the same half of the draw

this is wild and gives croatia a great chance of winning

they're down to 7/1

as a bleu stan, i'm way more scared at Croatia than England.

this thing is awesome btw

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/18/upshot/euro-2016-how-republic-of-ireland-can-advance-to-the-next-round.html

this team compares reasonably well to the 1998 one

yah but it boils down to 'they need to win'

this team compares reasonably well to the 1998 one

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, June 21, 2016 5:39 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll take it

this team is surely superior to the 1998 one, davor suker or no davor suker

prosinecki, boban, asanovic...

The 'big names' used to be a hindrance to Croatia in the past. This year it seems they are actually a team. I can see them going to the final rather comfortably.

suker pretty obviously better than mandzukic, jarni a comparable threat to perisic, defences probably equal.....there's not a lot in it

we're rather hastily writing off belgium here, no? yeah wilmots is shit but look at their team

Mandzukic, their big name, wasn't in the starting eleven tonight, he was on the bench. Modric was absent. Croatia ain't about big ego's anymore, and rightfully so, as it's what made them highly annoying in the past. Player to player comparisons are silly when the whole squad has a different approach.

if belgium-croatia happens it will probably end up being the football hipster's choice for best international match of the modern era or something

what the fuck is all of this shit

Belgium are flying high for no real reason tbh. So they won 3-0 to Ireland, big fucking deal. They seem so convinced they are in the final already, it's almost as if they adopted our arrogance and confidence based on nowt, with Holland absent.

we're rather hastily writing off belgium here, no?

#sarcasm

difficult to look beyond the

in with a considerable shout

luka modric >>>> david silva >>> lee rigby >>>>> kevin de bruyne