Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

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.

Just when we need hendrick as pivot we have to sub him after that stupid booking

Coleman also incredibly foolish to dive on his booking

Football is good. France bad.

Only Hendrick's second stupidest booking of the tournament. First was for introducing a second ball to an opposition attack lol

mcgrath italy 94 vs thuram croatia 98

What a header its almost enough to make you forget neither mccarthy nor hendrick bothered to do their one job there

Particularly mccarthy. Particularly.

Griezmann!!!

McCarthy is the midfield equivalent of the official behind the goals.

Over.

Ah well lads. Nobody expected ye to win it. Go with god.

O'Neill didnt do his job at half time but thats ok too. Glad just to be here.

(still convinced Ireland will win)

That was a very very clear foul by Giroud imo

smh griez goalline bling. so french

Still raging about 2nd French goal. Two centre backs going up for the ball. You wouldnt see it at an under-12 match

Ref sorry for us now

Equaliser now would be the vet equivalent of keeping the dog alive and in pain for another year

drone shadow is the new dog ad

Michael Cox ‏@Zonal_Marking 28m28 minutes ago

Ireland were poor at this tournament. Technically and physically inadequate, very fortunate to face half-arsed Italy in final group game.

Kevin Fingleton ‏@kfingleton 20m20 minutes ago

@MiguelDelaney @Zonal_Marking We don't care about our inadequacies. We had footballing moments that literally come along once a gereration.

Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking

@kfingleton @MiguelDelaney That's fine, I'm pleased everyone had a nice time.

Shitty pea-roller, Germany ARE BACK.

Mediocre analysis from Cox imo, three good performances out of four imo and I've never been accused of going easy on em. I don't know his criteria or benchmarks but that is a shittweet

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