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Post by potters11 on Jun 22, 2008 11:17:26 GMT
....England weren't there... as simple as that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2008 11:18:39 GMT
I'd say that was one of the reasons why it's been so good.
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Post by Fred Zeppelin on Jun 22, 2008 11:19:29 GMT
England aren't there.
Despite watching most games in this tournament it seems hollow somehow without England there to support.
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Post by boothenendboy on Jun 22, 2008 11:19:39 GMT
no woman ran onto the pitch and got her tits out which would have gave john motson a heart attack and mark lawrenson a massive erection.
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Post by lordb on Jun 22, 2008 11:24:23 GMT
Germany are winning again.
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Post by Olgrligm on Jun 22, 2008 11:33:29 GMT
There's lots of crap refereeing and cheating. On the other hand, credit to that referee last night who had the courage to overturn his own red card.
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Post by potters11 on Jun 22, 2008 11:48:34 GMT
robVD: I would disagree. For me personally, it just hasn't felt like a major tournament.
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Post by Cityfullergoals on Jun 22, 2008 11:55:06 GMT
no woman ran onto the pitch and got her tits out which would have gave john motson a heart attack and mark lawrenson a massive erection. |
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Post by Godo on Jun 22, 2008 12:11:11 GMT
Not enough cut aways to lovely female fans in the crowd.
Fred - saved your self some disappointment though? We'd have been on the plane back now anyway.
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Post by tijuanabrass on Jun 22, 2008 12:50:00 GMT
yeah, I think we'd have scraped through the first round (having looked crap) and then gone out on penos to Turkey (after a brave but fruitless performance). Rooney would have been sent off and Lampard would have missed a penalty. Someone would have cried and another couple retired from international duty.
Still there's always the World Cup to look forward to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2008 13:07:08 GMT
robVD: I would disagree. For me personally, it just hasn't felt like a major tournament. For me potters, it's been a blessed relief to just be able to enjoy plenty of games of exciting football as a neutral rather than be sucked into the whole England sideshow of the media turning into slavering xenophobes who can't contemplate anything other than England winning every game 6-0, of several unconvincing 1-0 wins against minnows before the inevitable penalties defeat against the first half decent side we play. It's also galling to have your country represented by odious pricks like Terry, Cole, Rio, Gerrard etc. It's hard to cheer for them. |
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Post by mozzer68 on Jun 22, 2008 13:08:06 GMT
Those fuckin dirty bastard Turks are still in.
Christ i hate them.
Every decision to go against them & it's like they are being singled out
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2008 13:27:01 GMT
Think the football has been wonderful. Its fast and exciting. We are miles behind in terms of technical ability. We have no-one any where near the ability of Arshavin.The Enlish lads are only interested in the celebrity status their supposed talent produces. Much better spectacle without them.
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Post by 'i'mnaked' on Jun 22, 2008 14:46:33 GMT
....of that awful music they play when a goal is scored. this is not american football for gods sake.
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Post by surreystokie on Jun 22, 2008 14:46:35 GMT
As I was meant to be there, watching England,  I've been surprised by how much I've enjoyed it, having watched every match, on TV. It has been marvellous to see so many of the favourites knocked out (and we - Stoke City - must show similar confidence next season) with not yet one of the teams who finished top of their qualifying league, going through. And deservedly so. I've loved watching latgely entertaining football, enjoyed the emergence of new stars and admired some tactical nous of various managers. Also enjoyed the lack of player/gang confrontation with the ref and hope the PL learns from it. What I've hated most, has been the prevalence of players stamping on an opponent's foot. I cannot understand the number of broken metatarsals among England players but none so far, in Euro, despite this foot-treading lark. Make it a new red card law, and get Howard Webb to enforce it and others to follow suit. It would soon disappear, as would shirt-tugging. |
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Post by GrandStokie on Jun 22, 2008 14:53:11 GMT
......Holland got knocked out last night and thats my £10 bet up in smoke.
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Post by beagriestache on Jun 22, 2008 15:04:36 GMT
I've enjoyed this tournament, not least because our over-rated technically abysmal millionaires aren't there to disappoint us all again.
Plus I drew Russia in the sweep and groaned but bugger me if they didn't look useful last night!
Shirt-tugging would stop in approximately 2 games if refs were brave enough (and supported by FIFA/UEFA crucially) to award pennos every time someone manhandled an attacker in the area at a corner. No backbone football administrators that's the problem.
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Post by GrandStokie on Jun 22, 2008 15:08:49 GMT
......Holland got knocked out last night and thats my £10 bet up in smoke. that said its been good to watch. I wonder how many England fans are eating their words claiming they weren't going to watch it? But everyone I know has. |
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Jun 25, 2008 2:36:35 GMT
To be honest if McLaren had taken England there- I personally would have told the pilot of the plane that flew him there to keep the engine running.
Has been good but lacks a real quality side. Spain look the most solid to me 'no woman ran onto the pitch and got her tits out which would have gave john motson a heart attack and mark lawrenson a massive erection '. ;D To be fair, more chance of that happening to Lawrenson if it was a male German fan in Speedos methinks
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I've been surprised by how much I've enjoyed it, having watched every match, on TV. 
