Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

Yeah, Ramsay will be sorely missed, thats a blemish, but this is wonderful.

Portugal totally beatable as well, this is thrilling

Oh God yes.

Wilmots will have to be sacked after this, shocking tactics and substitutions, hitting aimless high balls for over 30 mins with that talent

Fab

Ehr Portugal way more difficult to beat for Wales than Belgium tbh. But of course it can be done.

Yeah this is exit Wilmots

Taff, our 92 year old neighbour, is doing his nut on the phone

Wow racist

Don't think ref fucked them too much. Lukaku one was a foul but he can't complain after that header early in 2nd half. Nainggolan was a dive

Both cards for Ramsey and Davies came after sloppy Welsh passes. Must be pretty devastating for them to miss out on the semi.

Assume it's going to be billed as Bale v Ronaldo.

Lukaku was a foul but davies didnt rly step egregiously into his path so you could see it not being given

Nainggolan was a lazy dive rly

Chelsea's new 33m man made some great angry faces after he came on, looking forward to those next season

Prerequisite for a Prem player.

That robson-kanu goal is got to be goal of the tournament. It was sublime. He was so calm with the cryuff turn to take out three players.

Courtois saying he's done with Wilmots basically.

https://vine.co/v/5BApbKjXi3B

For me the control during Hal's goal is the single greatest bit of control (maybe vs Ronaldo backheel vs Croatia) in the entire tournament therefore your arguments are invalid.

Can we acknowledge the tekkers in that fucking vokes header btw

(ps I am drunkded)

And yes, Votes header great.

just woke up and noticed I had started to type a post but had only written a single letter t

wonder what I was going to say

"two thousand and sixteen is a fucken strange ass time to live in Wales" perhaps

Yeah the quality of both goals is some serious cometh the hour shit. The run and header and the cross, brilliant.

he will probably never head a ball that well again in his life whatever the occasion

I've watched that second Wales goal at least 20 times and still don't understand how he suddenly became completely open

How does this happen? You get a collection of average to slightly-above-average Premiership players, one very good Premiership player and one world class superstar (who doesn't end up doing much), a manager who has done very little of note in his career, and something like that happens. The last two goals were so great, just this sense of everything just clicking into place at exactly the right time. Robson-Kanu is a Championship free agent ffs.

amazing what you can do with players who can take tactical instruction and execute it as a collective. story of half the tournament.

tbf to the English lads there's a not a lot of evidence of them receiving coherent tactical instruction

No amount of tactical instruction gives you goals like that HRK one.

I told him to do it

no but we're talking about why teams can punch above their nominal weight across a bunch of matches, not individual moments within a game

maybe trusting the system and your team-mates gives you confidence to do things like that, defending was still a bit shit tbh

u simply cannot underestimate the effect of the terrifying brain-eating mould identified by profs shearer & giggs as washbag culture

tbf, HRK has gone for that move quite a bit in this tournament. It's just usually not in the penalty area

xp we mustn't overlook the pioneering work of Dr Danny Baker in this field

Is Robson-Kanu still unattached? pretty choice free transfer there for some club.

is there a passable HRK/HRC confusion display name up for grabs no probably not

lad i know who's a Hull fan already doing that hilariously imperious "should we sign Robson Kanu?" thing on Facebook

i go on villatalk for a hearty lol occasionally and there's two blokes on there now arguing about whether they should get hrk or resign benteke

always think the tone of those conversations is risible enough when it comes from lol big club fans but in the Champo it takes it to another level

bosko balaban was also worth a few hrk in his time amirite

HRK was part of my 2014 treble winning squad on fm 2008, I feel like he owes me something.

I love those virtual attachments cant believe vieirinha is actually tearing it up in 2016

Kari Arnason has been bringing me joy precisely cos of my FM love of him

Yeah I mean Iceland's performance in the tournament makes perfect sense as a display of the value of proper organisation and coaching. Individual moments from yesterday were next level though.

you only really need one or two good players and perhaps a decent defence to do quite well in this kind of tournament. the champions league used to be a bit like this too but the big clubs are significantly more consolidated powers now.

i mean assuming you've got a world class coach like chris coleman

So what's it gonna be tonight?

Will be interesting to see if Italy can disrupt Germany enough. I'll give 'em a chance and a half, also because this is the tournament of the aforementioned team effort etc.

Cant call it

Think it will be clear early on either way tho

i'm backing italy to win 7-1 idk abt u

Germany after extra time, want Italy tho obv