Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

zzz off to bed

What a day of total let down

I guess the '98 Croatia team might have been better

:)

Renato sanches seemed not to have found a single pass in that entire half

I like him. Reminds me of a young Anderson

when he was good for two weeks that time

this match is an actual disgrace

Both teams see a win as a bye to maybe even the final so no wonder they're playing it safe.

belgium will hopefully cunt whoever wins this

rooting for rtc's boys as well

yes, Belgium will save this tournament

Oh ffs

Is cron literally off celebrating his assist on his own

Didn't want Portugal to win but <3 Quaresma.

This tournament just like real life is dead to me.

yeah he's been around forever we'll give him this

love portugal

You would

lusophile (on the tournament; it's going to go against predictions!)

that was a pass

if you don't like nani ronaldo quaresma front three fuck you

Nani is probably the most misunderstood footballer of the modern era

they'll miss him when he's gone

yeah
he's a sporting lisbon trained winger who was defensively good enough to play in a 442
also, has been a good player for maybe nine years now which is pretty good for a winger given how they get burned out or lose confidence
not a world class player or whatever but he's had a good career

Portugal is a fucking disgrace to football. Croatia failing Holland style: able to play the best football but failing miserably.

Keith Andrews almost snarling on TV3, "I'm not having that he meant that"

the sheer rage he inspires is a little befuddling

Keith Andrews like

Oh jesus keith andrews of course

I thought it was a high concept garret fitzgerald tribute act

it's not hugely surprisingly that a player who would rather do a rabona than cross with his left foot near the byline might toe punt a pass to another player he had just been looking at

Portugal is a fucking disgrace to football. Croatia failing Holland style: able to play the best football but failing miserably.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, June 25, 2016 6:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nothing they did today came close to 'best football' they were brillant in the earlier stages but that was a let down.

jfc Croatia were a bigger let-down than Franjo Tuđman

Cough corbyn cough

So they changed the ball from the Beau Jeu to the Fracas for the knockout phase.

Omg

holy shit, less than a minute

Nice

Christ, I missed it!

Did not think he was scoring that pen

lol i give up on predictor

Hah same. Love this start though. These ten minutes have offered more excitement already than all of last nights match.

Somewhere Darraghmac is screaming "no, too early!" at a TV.

Lol

Haha

Nope, if we can manage to keep to our plan its perfect to havs put france under this pressure to attack.

Long would be a sore loss

Our tackling is p poorly judged. Fouling when the ball was there to win cleanly.

Othereise i cant complain

Missed the goal obv

I haven't been watching this but I hope that was a dubious penalty, the Le Main of Henry incident still seems like yesterday to me.

Hate to break it but it was a stone cold pen

Tackling is stupid.

The objective is to get the ball, foul if necessary. These guys dont understand that in the heat of the moment

Idiocy hendrick. Idiocy

Pity this is on ITV. Would love if they went back to the studio at half time and Henry was sitting there.

Ireland v effectively disrupting France so far. Wonder if they can manage this for 90mins as it must be exhausting, but so far so good. France getting frustrated.