EURO 2020 (2021 Edition)

What's the fash quotient like in the Italy side atm?

i mean italy hugely racist country so yeah. love how hard working this italy team is as well to dmac’s point.

xpost and not sure.

*complicated post about southern european ethnicity*

― imago, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 12:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the haplogroups don't lie

Not a single non white player makes it hard for me to root for Italy, but I do enjoy the way they play.

Well that's Wales and Scotland out then.

ché adams!

joy to watch. italy play like a v good champs lge team. real cohesion and purpose. no confusion. the delayed 1-2 for the goal a delight.

the prophet has spoken

Hope they win the full tournament Italy 🇮🇹

— Tony Watt (@32watto_) June 16, 2021

Pretty sure I saw at least one black welsh player, and I barely payed attention to the game.

xxxpost

OK, that's football over for the night for me, ITV on Freeview doesn't work when it rains.

That’s terrific.

what a goal.

barely seemed to lift his foot.

been watching the game while working, so not 100% concentrated on it, but italy looks very good. probably the best of the tournament

i want to be able to say spin-o-rama by spin-o-zola though

Very entertaining, that.

Killer

also, how is seven nation army still being chanted in 2021

loool at that factoid about locatelli. sing a massive fan of murder she wrote.

*being a massive fan of

how is seven nation army still being chanted in 2021

First they'd have to stop playing it through the PA after every goal

I hate it even more than the 'No blue kit vs red kit' rule (even tho Ukraine's brighter blue was fine against Dutch orange)

oh god. so it's hockey's chelsea dagger equivalent

How did Sam Matterface become the ITV #1 commentator?

"Manuel Locatelli is a massive fan of Murder She Wrote" pic.twitter.com/GMCEEk1fzP

— FourFourTwo (@FourFourTwo) June 16, 2021

he also had a school bag labelled: Manuel Locatelli, FBI agent. a born fucking cop!

”I am honored that the Italians have adopted this song as their own. Nothing is more beautiful in music than when people embrace a melody and allow it to enter the pantheon of folk music.”

the thing is, i'm pretty sure i hear fans from a lot of different sports teams chanting it, which i think changes things

did he not say he’d read it in an interview? i think it’s quite sweet! about how he loves investigative stuff so much. (in bold)

Insomma Locatelliun investigatore mancato nel suo piccolo, come ha rivelato: "Ho avuto il calcio in testa da quando avevo tre anni. Da quel periodo ho cominciato a capire cosa fosse il calcio anche se non nego che l’investigatore privato è sempre stato un lavoro a cui mi ispiravo. Mi piaceva tantissimo. Adoravo vedere le serie tv, film sugli investigatori, agenti FBI. Ero talmente fissato che mi ero fatto un marsupio con una scheda con scritto ‘Agente FBI Manuel Locatelli’. I miei familiari mi prendono ancora in giro perché ho tenuto ancora quel marsupio. E' un mondo che mi piace. Poi fortunatamente ho avuto la possibilità di giocare a calcio. Guardavo la 'Signora in giallo', *la signora Fletcher, e c'era Amos che mi ispirava tanto"*.

it was their anthem when they won the World Cup in 2006, they won’t be singing anything else anytime soon

fan of the ee cummings all lower case names on the swiss shirts. obv.

they'll be ee going home if they continue playing like this, Clive

Immobile is a big haddy

Well there’s your punctuation mark.

switzerland left ... immobile

Having qualified Italy is going to be able to take it a little more lightly next game which is perfect for them, they really worked a lot.

Commentator's eye

Freeviw back on in time for the 3rd goal.

honestly, i've seen switzerland play in a friendly recently, as well. and watching them here, they are just not a soccer playing nation.

Crisp packet hands from the goalie to be fair

also, how is seven nation army still being chanted in 2021

― Punster McPunisher, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 4:14 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

French fans still sing I will survive since the 1998 World Cup, I don't think we are done with Seven Nation Army just yet.

honestly, i've seen switzerland play in a friendly recently, as well. and watching them here, they are just not a soccer playing nation.

Of course they are.

the darts used to always be "Chasing The Sun" but then it became "Chelsea Dagger", be careful what you wish for

Michael Owen doing betting site adverts is an interesting choice.

They play it, just not as well as tennis xxp

okay, i guess it's just that their hockey team has a better record, which is not the same, sure

That's easy, hardly anyone plays that, comparatively speaking.

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Bonucci, Barella, and Locatelli. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? Granit Xhaka.

LOL

Kosovo tho.

yes i know

Also all this talk of Italy aka France's natural predator is making me nervous but then again, it's easier to score 3 goals against the Swiss than it is to beat Germany 1-0.