Euro's

[Benny]

There's something wrong with your keyboard Mr Bristol. I have taken the liberty of correcting your post below;

My bet from the start.
Spain were amazing for the 1st half tonight, but sat back on a 1-0 lead in the 2nd.
They looked vulnerable to attack for the whole of the 2nd half.
France were OK, but OK is not enough against Spain.

I know that England win tomorrow, but I don't think they will find it easy.
Hodgeson is a great tactician and I've no doubt he will be targeting the Italian full backs, They are the dangerous ones IMHO.

Good Luck England, you'll need it, as all successful teams do, but luck won't be the decider when Gerrard caps his performance with a 25 yard rasper!

[smilodon]

I wish them luck, but as most realists accept it's a big ask. I think most people accept that in all likelihood it's going to be a Germany Spain final.

[Tutonic]

One nil to the Ingurlund tonight.

In Roy we trust.

[Snokio]

First half we played well, mainly at the start, but second half we was rubbish, Italy deserved the win

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[Blunt]

Sorry Snokes, but Italy were no better for 120 mins tonight.
at full time it was 0-0
so they won on penalties.
hard luck England rather than well done Itay IMHO

[Benny]

Deserve?!  my 'rear of the year (southern counties, over 35's semi finalist)' ar5e.

Evens at best, early scares for both, the game ebbed and flowed and was a joy(ish) to watch.
Roy and his boys have done us proud and I won't be buying a paper tomorrow to avoid the absolute ******** they will undoubtedly peddle.

Yours truly

A happy England fan.

[Snokio]

Well we was hanging on to dear life, when we had the ball, it was booted out rather than any passing play, Roy did do a good job

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[Blunt]

What should've happened:
Roy Takes over.
Roy kicks out any player that won't be playing in 2014.
England goes out after tge groups with a blooded young team.
England reach the semi's in 2014

then it's up to the individuals


1st build a team

[smilodon]

Deserve?!  my 'rear of the year (southern counties, over 35's semi finalist)' ar5e.

Evens at best, early scares for both, the game ebbed and flowed and was a joy(ish) to watch.
Roy and his boys have done us proud and I won't be buying a paper tomorrow to avoid the absolute ******** they will undoubtedly peddle.

Yours truly

A happy England fan.

And this is why I will never understand football. England draw a game, win two and then loose and our team did us proud? Aren't they supposed to win the tournament or at worst loose in a nail biting final in order to have done us proud? To the uneducated and ignorant (me) it looked like they failed to achieve anything much except just beating a team ranked 17th in the world and then again just beating a team that is ranked 52nd! We then get completely outplayed by Italy who had they lost on penalties could justifiably consider themselves robbed. Again I'm a complete football duffer so I await education. But does anyone thing we would have stood a chance in hell had we actually made it through and faced Germany or Spain?

[Benny]

.... But does anyone thing we would have stood a chance in hell had we actually made it through and faced Germany or Spain?

and that's the beauty of it....no, but I would have told myself we did! I'm happy because we didn't make excuses, expectations weren't great and everyone in the team, to a man put in a full shift. I could argue Rooney was short, but having met me you'll appreciate by cup is usually half empty so I'm trying this half full thing to see what it's like.

I don't think Italy deserved the win at the end of 90 minutes, but neither did we. I thought a draw was fair. Maybe instead of technology we need random scoring based on how far away you shoot from.

[smilodon]

The English penalty shoot out Achilles heal is getting to be a bit ridiculous now, although I'm sure it's just some statistical anomaly rather than a terrible curse laid on our nation by some Euro witch doctor. As I've said I'm no expert but to me it looked like Italy attacked a lot and England managed to defend well and that was it. Italy had 18 shots on target compared to England's 4 which sort of sums up the whole game for me. England never looked like winners they just did a great job of defending against Italy.

[RizZy]

The 1st half was ok, after that it was painful to watch.

English football just doesn't suit international tourneys, when Joe Hart had the most touches out of all the players that should tell you something & if atleast one player on the pitch can't work out that Pirlo is pretty good & maybe they shouldn't let him have the ball all night long, then, well.

The positive I take from this is it actually looks like the team has stopped believing they have some god given right to be in winners of everything & they can't play other teams of the park - England is a 2nd rate footballing country & untill kids are taught how to play it won't change.

Atleast going out to the Italians saved them from the mauling that Germany woulda given them.

[Snokio]

I'll just be happy if my car doesn't get keyed! There's been a bit hostility towards the Italians near me

[Khrispykhicken]

I'll just be happy if my car doesn't get keyed! There's been a bit hostility towards the Italians near me

What have the Italians done too you, you eat enough pizza right? :narnar:

[RizZy]

Holy smoke Spain are good, & just to think, they used to be terrible in tournament football - between them & Barca it's the best football I've seen.