Euro 2016 thread

Gassage

That was rather like England Rugby losing to the Isle of Skye.

Fretwired

Gassage said:

That was rather like England Rugby losing to the Isle of Skye.

Not really .. Iceland have beaten Holland twice and Italy ... they're not rubbish.

Rocker

The Premier League is part of the reason England are out. Average players are paid extravagant wage by a cash rich organisation. What percentage English players in the PL? Roy is gone but who are the coaches, coaching set plays, basic defending, goalkeeping etc. The media does not help either... And the expectation of so many fans who believe what they read on newspapers or what is said on MOTD.

octatonic

Fretwired said:

octatonic said:

Genius ...

They are coming thick and fast on my FB feed.

UnclePsychosis

UnclePsychosis said:

Not understanding this Hart love. He's a decent keeper but no better than that.

UnclePsychosis said:

Well the problem for England is that the best strike force in the competition have thus far scored fewer goals than defensively minded Iceland

England *should* win comfortably. But better teams than England have failed to beat worse teams than Iceland so whilst I expect England to win to nil I also wouldn't be all that surprised if we see guys dressed up like Crusading Knights and WW2 era RAF pilots in tears on tonight's TV.

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UnclePsychosis

Favourite tweet thus far.

"England still allowing plenty of free movement for foreigners. Mainly in the penalty box"

Rocker

You got a be impressed with the Icelandic HAKA.

kjdowd

Testament to the fact that you can't just pick a bunch of good players and hope that they will self-organise on the pitch. Hodgson's record truly speaks for itself.

Luckily I don't like football. And we've got Aussies in charge of the rugby and the cricket.

UnclePsychosis

Another cracker:

"Nobody told them that letting in goals would have consequences. They thought they could let in a few goals as a protest and still be in Europe in the morning."

UnclePsychosis

Anyone got a video of Sam Matterface asking Patrice Evra how he felt about playing England in the quarters?  )

scrumhalf

You can't beat the classics.

Chirs Waddle's on the radio talking about why we're no good at tournaments.

He's been doing this for at least the last four.

BigBearKris

eSully said:

holy crap. What odds on that before the match!!

pretty decent. I've made £95 from £20 bet on 4.50 odds for Iceland to qualify as well as another £96 for Iceland to win on 8.00 odds.

I've had a few £1 bets for 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1 all for ENG but those I've made as soon as they've qualified from the group. Won bets I've placed after reading the jolly comments about ''easy win'' and ''4-0''. Nice one!

FX_Munkee

BigBearKris said:

eSully said:

holy crap. What odds on that before the match!!

pretty decent. I've made £95 from £20 bet on 4.50 odds for Iceland to qualify as well as another £96 for Iceland to win on 8.00 odds.

I've had a few £1 bets for 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1 all for ENG but those I've made as soon as they've qualified from the group. Won bets I've placed after reading the jolly comments about ''easy win'' and ''4-0''. Nice one!

I'm assuming you're following @lloyd 's fantastic predicting abilities then.
He's like an anti Paul the Octopus.

lloyd

My predictions and football knowledge are almost as embarrassing as the England team's performance last night....almost.

Bogwhoppit

octatonic said:

Commentator just said 'overshadows everything else that's happening in the country right now'.

Yeah, right.

You had to be living in England in 1966 to understand that comment

lloyd

Bogwhoppit said:

octatonic said:

Commentator just said 'overshadows everything else that's happening in the country right now'.

Yeah, right.

You had to be living in England in 1966 to understand that comment

The comment at half time of "Should Roy drop Hart for the QF?" pretty much sums up why many of the Celtic countries will be laughing at this result.

I wanted England to win to be fair but when they don't I find it funny, it's great when an underdog does something like this too.

Neil

scrumhalf said:

You can't beat the classics.

Chirs Waddle's on the radio talking about why we're no good at tournaments.

He's been doing this for at least the last four.

Might have been better if he hadn't skied his chance in the penalty shoot out.

Neil

Fair play to Iceland, they played really well.

After a brilliant start with a pen as the game wore on we got progressively more and more nervous until eventually nobody could even make a simple pass. Kane's free kicks were just laughable

Add to that the customary Hart clanger and we were doomed.

Fretwired

lloyd said:

My predictions and football knowledge are almost as embarrassing as the England team's performance last night....almost.

@lloyd .. if it were that good I'd cut you some slack .. :-)

Fretwired

Neil said:

Kane's free kicks were just laughable

Is that what they were .. I wondered. Why would you get your striker to take free kicks?

Roy should get a permenant seat on the long running BBC Radio show I'm sorry I haven't a clue ...