Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

Schteve :'-)

Amaaaaazing

http://i.imgur.com/5nYR3zY.jpg

Lux Aeterna

https://twitter.com/bbcsport/status/747557806748819456

This is beyond belief too. "They've tried experienced people and it didn't work."

Shearer get tae fuck

After 10+ years of living here it still amazes me how quickly England supporters switch from confident bragging to self-loathing. By the end of the game tonight, half the crowd were cheering for Iceland.

(in the pub where I was)

the reasons for that attitude are extremely well-documented and not particularly hard to parse instinctively parse imo but I'm far too inarticulate to tap them all out onto a broken smart phone while in my drunken stupor

We all want to support the team at heart, but circumstances conspire against us

I should proofread, that was a disaster

The arrogance is bcuz ppl can't help but fall for the narratives of hope spun by the media in the build up to these things, the hatred is simply the self-loathing that kicks in once hope is lost and you realise that you've been had, again

We can all play it cool on an Internet messageboard but a few weeks ago I was on here crowing after 45 minutes of the England-Russia game and I daresay in 2 years I'll be back again

All very positive but worth bearing in mind that Russia are pish.

― a goon shaped fule (onimo), Sunday, 12 June 2016 13:11 (2 weeks ago)

I did try to temper your enthusiasm. Like the dour Scottish bastard I am.

how on earth is gareth southgate the leading candidate here?

There's no point paying the England manager a lot of money at this point

Presumably cheap and won't be in a position to spend £14m on Alfonso Alves again. He has been groomed for the role in his capacity as U-21 manager, like Stuart Pearce. International management apparently doesn't require any actual reputation or demonstrable skills.

think when i add it up england have probably given me more joy at tournaments than any other team.

― pandemic, Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:48 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they mentioned harry redknapp on sky earlier, england should be relieved with southgate in that case

did itv really have gil scott heron "it's your world" over the closing credits? fabulously vicious satire v impressed

mindblowing night, deliriously shit. can always lose a game but i'd honestly thought i'd seen everything englandwise

shouldve known there's no getting past slimfast paddy kenny in goal tbh

sean dyche 50/1

paul hayward -"credit to Alan Shearer for raising his hand. He would be capable, despite his inexperience."

why would he be capable? where the fuck is the evidence for this?? incredible.

don't trust experts

2 + 2 = shearer

lol

"Why should he get it in front of Steve Bruce and Sam Allardyce, who are proven managers?" Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live.

The 69-year-old, who ruled out his own chances of getting the job, said that he would back Tim Sherwood for the position.

sherwood obviously a proven manager

i really want big sam to get it. it'd be hilarious.

sadly he's probably the most competent englishman

yeah prob is the best man for the job, like besides that cup run at fulham roy's record is not wildly different from allardici.

strangely if his name was allardici today he wouldn't get the job.

allardyce would at least set england up like the 'small' team they are and from that mindset try to construct ways to nick results.

for me Allardyce ticks every box including hilarity

#deliverthemodule

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmBmlsdWkAAE1Iy.jpg

amused by the Times' lack of commitment to the bit here

Iceland defender Ragnar Sigurdsson has suggested England were complacent before their defeat last night.

Sigurdsson scored Iceland's equalising goal before Kolbeinn Sigthorsson got the winner.

"They thought this would be a walk in the park but we had faith in our ability," Sigurdsson said.

"It went well. We didn't feel that England created any chances. We were just heading away long balls. I wasn't stressed in the second half."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmCS5KpWgAAxmSR.jpg

Liking this Faragesque sore winners approach of the Icelandic team.

I dunno, I can totally hear Hart saying that

That bit about Kane surely can't be genuine, can it?

(xp) Oh absolutely, I said I liked the approach, didn't I? The Kane quote is o_0

It's a head scratcher for sure.

it is fake

We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls. We were just heading away long balls.

wonder if England fall back on these "tactics" because they're shit or because they believe each other are shit

They do it against top-quality opposition as well. It's because they're shit and just run out of ideas when things are down.

no i mean each player has so little faith in his team-mates to adhere to the plan that they descend into lumpball. i know it's a moot point.

We're all British, we should be cheering each other on

enjoying the second captain podcast on this

https://soundcloud.com/secondcaptains-it-com

a long piece merely to broadcast that he can't go to the beyonce show

talk about burying the leading

xp

lead*

when i read that roy's opening salvo at the post exit presser was "i'm not really sure what i'm doing here" i thought that i was reading a local garda parody.

It was fairly gutless the way he never actually resigned. It was "We'll my contract was up anyway" and "these things happen"

there's a proper passive-aggressive arrogance to woy beneath the "man out of time" exterior

the weakness in roy's character comes from having spent too much of his career abroad. he was never truly suffused with the indomitable english spirit. his failure was inevitable.