EURO 2020 (2021 Edition)

football. bloody hell

Missed the one pen in the actual game, scored all five in the shootout

that was almost the best pen shootout since Hudds Town vs Blades playoff final '12

France just felt so hollow. Great stuff from Switzerland, some night of football

Thought it was just the one tbh and even then it was struck well

He moved way too early on three of them imo.

France just felt so hollow. Great stuff from Switzerland, some night of football

― crisp, Monday, June 28, 2021 5:51 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not the same without Matuidi.

mbabbe has been awful, I called him out before for being wayward, the saving grace often is he's made the chances he had himself. He hasn't looked happy, the rumours of disagreements the French camp, with other fwds, giroud namely, seems like his heart wasn't in it at these matches, shout out to xhaka, his duels with pogba was terrific

I imagine being 22, the idol of a nation and having won so much already must play games with your psychology.

xhaka put in probably his greatest performance for anyone ever, titanic stuff

Sitting on a bus listening to three young very posh guys - who are maskless btw - talking shite about tonight's football.

Cannot wait for eng-ger absolutely destroying the goodwill built tonight towards 'the beautiful game'

England has finally improved its youth development and it's coincided with having largely home advantage in an international tournament, things have lined up nicely. As long as there isn't a bizarre racist moral panic about black men being communists everything should be fine.

— Trebor Smith (@TreborRhurbarb) June 7, 2021

Solidarity across sports

Großartig 👏 👏 mega fight
Mit Herz 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
Und jetzt Viertelfinal 🚀🚀🚀

— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) June 28, 2021

MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE! INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU! LUC BESSON! AGNES VARDA! JACQUES LACAN! LOUISE BOURGEOIS! MARCEL PROUST! RICHARD CLAYDERMAN! CHARLOTTE CORDAY! RENÉ ARTOIS! MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ! ANTOINE DE CAUNES! ANTOINE DE CAUNES, CAN YOU HEAR ME! YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING!

— joolsd (@joolsd) June 28, 2021

Jacques Tati! Jeanne d’Arc! Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Antoines de Caunes! Can you hear me Antoines de Caunes! Your boys took a hell of a beating!

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTe3K7BllM

For our North American friends, here is what is being referenced in those two tweets, the commentary at the end of a game between Norway and England in 1981, where Norway have just beaten England for the first time in their history (at football anyway)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6UV2fs_6zE

thank you for that, as a Dutchie I had no idea of that context either.
(Richard Clayderman tho lol, could have sworn he was Swiss himself)

That's not the whole thing either, there's a lot of hilarious stuff in Norwegian too, "We are the best in the world! We are the best in the wotkd!"

oh ffs

How many times are you going to hear this song today? 😂

The England band will be back in Wembley today for England's massive round of 16 match with Germany 🎺⬇️https://t.co/hzy0aI9F2L pic.twitter.com/fCnEGACW90

— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) June 29, 2021

Imagine locating your seat for the match and finding that it's directly in front of a man with a trumpet.

there used to be this irksome tool playing the great escape theme at the HTAFC ground. His tuba got accidentally damaged at some point (lol I think it might have actually got booted down the concrete steps in the Kilner Bank stand) and he sulked off when the club wouldn't pay for it to be repaired/replaced.

as much as I'd like to see Dareth getting executed by a Gestapo firing squad, drop this shit lads.

the commentary at the end of a game between Norway and England in 1981, where Norway have just beaten England for the first time in their history (at football anyway)...

Sat in a pub near Crofton Park station with the Pinefox last night, watching the 3-3, this came up in conversation... and we recalled how the B&S Sinister Mailing List team knocked the NME out of the five-a-side competition at Camber Sands 20-odd years ago, and from the touchline we called out: "Tony Parsons, Danny Baker, Paul Morley... Julie Burchill, can you hear me Julie Burchill? Your boys..." etc. Ah, days.

will the german oompah band also be in attendance?

Haben sie gehört das Deutsches Band? Mit der bang, mit der boom...

Just saw that BBC breakfast clip. Those ppl should spend the entire 90 mins taking the knee

I wonder if they've watched The Great Escape all the way through, because it doesn't really end that well for the English.

Pathetic watching British TV trying to get Germans to talk about the footballing rivalry between England and Germany and the Germans having absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

it is the best thing really

According to one BBC correspondent, beating Germany to progress to the quarter finals will be one of the biggest days in England's history.

Plus they are still trying to get Germans to admit to some kind of rivalry with England.

Nein https://t.co/A2h4AWoxqv

— Germany (@DFB_Team_EN) June 28, 2021

Early scuttlebutt is no foden, no mount, no grealish.

Saka / Sterling behind Kane with a back 5

Can’t help but feel if this is true that after a run of incredible games this one is gonna be a total stinker

0-0 after extra time, many missed pens, Germany wins 2-1 on PKs, including a ball that rolls into the goal while Pickford is distracted by a remote-controlled drone butterfly

I cannot see this one being 3-3 or 5-3.

i don't require high-scoring, as long as the reason the match is low-scoring is stout defending and not really massively inept attacking

kids are reading the beano this week, they have a football game where a player deliberately scores a load of own goals then it turns out he swapped the goalposts before the match so they have really won 30-0 or sth. Worth a try?

Hate admitting but it's a good chance for England to reach another semi-final. Such a drab section of the draw.

Belgium - Portugal was a great 1-0 game. Lots of good play, everybody on edge and tense.

This won't be like that.

Shaw, Walker and Trippier all starting seems odd.

5 defenders, 2 defensive mids. That is a fucking grim XI when you look at the players he has at his disposal

There is not a lot of brilliant decision making, touch nor passing ability in that selection

Reacting better to a breaking ball seems to be the tactic

Even one of the 3 attackers often plays in defence for his club side

......saka or kane, because. ..

What odds Werner scores a brace?

I’d guess he thinks that if they can neutralise Gosens, through Walker / Tripper, they can neutralise Germany, but idk.

24/1 on a Werner brace, which looks pretty tempting tbh.

Last time the Swiss were in a QF, they were three up inside 20min, 3-5 down 12min later and eventually lost 5-7. So last night was just a warm-up really.

Also, we've had 1/2/3/4/6/8-goal games so far. Just 5 and 7 go. Forsberg hat-trick for the golden boot in a defeat. GER recover from 0-2, Uwe Seeler looping one over Pickford.

to go*

Too many Chelsea players in this German side for me to have much affection for them. Dropping Gnabry for Werner? Fuck that.