Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

Hazard beat up on Hungary and Ireland. That's it

I'd have Hazard just for those two minutes when he passed to himself to get an assist and then immediately floated through to score. Two best plays of the tournament by one man in the space of a couple of minutes.

Payet was great in the group but has been ineffective in the knockouts.

Same goes for Bale.

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Come on. It was Romarioesque.
― ewar woowar (or something)

Please explain.
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:34 (1 hour ago) Permalink

It was a cleverly improvised finish in the style of Brazil legend Romario.

hope ronaldo scores 4 and shushes paris

http://media0.giphy.com/media/Rhhr8D5mKSX7O/giphy.gif

hope griezmann scores 50 and paris is 1000 times as loud as it was last night :)
also it's hilarious how all you hear about in the French media after last nights win is the defeat in 82

That's fair re: Bale.

I fear Cron may somehow sneak this. I'd love to see him lose just for giggles though.

trust me the giggles will be if france lose

portugal have wrought unto this tournament what greece wrought unto their own grand parade in 2004 and i hope they finish the job

anyway, clatts is the man in the middle, should be fun

i think having ronaldo and a few other multi-million pound players makes it a little different from greece

i'm well-disposed to the portuguese people after watching the arabian nights trilogy. they deserve a break, or something

I can only assume that Clatts habitually whacks off a selection of UEFA dignitaries because his getting both major finals is just incomprehensible.

he just hates footballers more than any other ref

prob not the worst shout for england manager tbh

he's also lucky enough that teams from his country don't get to the semis so he's always on the short list of refs for finals

Theres the thing

team!

Miaow!

Tournament XI, anyone?

 
                     Hart
       Walker    Cahill    Boateng   alba
de Bruyne      Wilshere    Schweinsteiger    Hazard
                    Muller   Kane

sorry there's a bit of premier league = best league in the world in the above

And yet no place for Rooney

I live a bit outside of Paris atm & people are still making a load of noise right now, horns and chants and some little kid hollering the "seven nation army" riff.

I was in Istanbul one year when Fenerbahçe won the league title against Galatasaray & people were shooting guns into the air still several days later. not *quite* that mad here right now but come Sunday

xpost true i could have put rooney at left back

I was in Istanbul one year when Fenerbahçe won the league title against Galatasaray & people were shooting guns into the air still several days later.

Given that it was Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray, are you sure those shots were in the air?

haha I guess I don't know, there were sirens constantly as well for several days

Oh the sirens were just them playing the flaming lips version of seven nation army

https://twitter.com/arturpetrosyan/status/751368754756542465

:D

that line about defeat being a necessary part of the russian character

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnBgdfZW8AAklm0.jpg

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

STOKED FOR THE MOTHNESS

Red Moths Will Fly From The East And Destroy Paris In A Night

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnBiTG0WcAAXTwx.jpg

Want France to win, but in true fashion this will be a terrible final with Ornlado's tears of joy drowning millions of moths won't it?

Mon dieu, this closing ceremony...

Collina has no real function there. They just brought him down to draw all the moths into the terrifying tractor beam of his eyes where they will burn for eternity.

liking the intensity from the France midfield so far

Danny Murphy really did hit new heights of gormless credulity when he said he thought Ronaldo was genuinely injured just then.

not convinced he can tell Pogba, Matuidi and Sissoko apart, either

LOL MOTHRA

oh shit

well

that's that. might as well blow the final whistle

ugh. Indeed

aw shit, didn't realise he was coming off.

Well, I predicted a moth and a Cron...

surely UEFA allows doping

Not many people will realise that's his personal moth, which he has trained to feed on his tears. It just thought it was an early dinner tonight.

We've traced the moths and THEY'RE COMING FROM INSIDE THIS THREAD!