Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

every irish player is immobile amirite

ireland prob have a shout for being the worst team at this tournament.

Zaza Immobile is a car I would buy.

btw what's with the kick offs with only one guy who kicks it backwards?

I feel like I'd almost never seen this but now everyone's doing it at the euro

rules changed before the tournament, it freaks me out as well

no longer an imperative to play first touch into the oppositions half so teams just play first pass backwards into more space

the drop pass has conquered football

im quite happy about this development but it does look really strange when you see a guy alone about to take a kick-off. is this going to be standard in future or just one of those odd little rule tweaks done for the one tournament only I wonder

ah ok makes sense I guess
bel swe off to a fast start

Brady long hendrick are dece footballers

McCarthy is a cunt

Promoted throughout this tournament from useless through fuckin idiot now hes a cunt

Italian correspondent on tv3 picked out hendrick as the irish player to watch, back in studio everyone lolled patronisingly. Doesnt even run around much, they said, shaking their heads fondly. Thats why james mcclean has international caps, clowns like this owning our prime football real estate

I got Iceland in the sweepstake. I assumed my interest was already effectively over before a ball was kicked in the tournament. Wrong wrong wrong.

lol pulis asking the commentator for an xls on the big lad who plays centre half for benfica

yes haha

afaik he 'was being linked to' united but i guess west bromwich albion can probably bid on those players now too

This is ok stuff but stupid needless fouls keep killing momentum and if ward hasnt got a moment of craziness in him im ilxs favourite music writer

pulis getting his excuses in for shawcross performance vs ibra

he was thrown on when he usually needs "4 hours to warm up"

Jesus christ I take a break from watching footy for one evening and a game has SIX goals !

Sirigu off?

False alarm

Hey

That ref?

Cheat.

Fraud.

Coward.

Cunt.

ya that was p obv

Fucking cunt of a ref

wait that's not in reference to the macclean pen shout is it?

cos that wasn't a pen imo

He came in on the back of him. Obv peno

lol never

I mean it quite clearly was a penalty

he also had Ireland retake a corner because Long got elbowed in the face

Lets cut all internet pretence here that was as clear a penalty as a cunt coward ref son of a bitch has ever ignored because international football is bent

was fucking DESPERATE to get a shout from his assistant on the McLean incident, even though he had the best view in the stadium

bottled it

lol no

xxp

there's god-awful refereeing that favours the "bigger" team all the way down the ladder tbf

How was it not a penalty.

There is just no way it wasnt

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/22/republic-of-ireland-vs-italy-euro-2016-live/

Never said club reffing wasnt also bent but those guys are pros

don't think it's a question of degree tbh but have never supported a national team kept out of a major tournament by cheating + shit reffing tbf

If that wasn't a penalty a mod might as well lock this thread and lock fitba

Would like to hear how pandemic thinks its not acpen

they are specifically prejudiced against the republic of ireland because they hate ilx poster 'darraghmac'

lol

every other adjudication mistake that affects a smaller nation is a chance occurence

long elbowed in face in box

filthy follow through on ward

couple of opt-out calls from this coward ref who should be executed

it's pretty clear that UEFA couldn't risk the chance of France facing a fired-up Ireland

the calls have been made