Euro 2008

[Steve Graham]

Re: Euro 2008

christ, Spain played about as uninspired as they typically do in that second half and then eek out that goal.. terribly unlucky for the Swedes. Massive mistake subbing off Zlatan.. was it jsut precautionary or was his knee bothering him again? i missed that

[shosh]

Re: Euro 2008

yeah Spain didnt look as strong as they didnt in their match with Russia, but I never took Russia to be a very good team. I said it after the match vs the russians that the spanish defense is pretty weak (especially in the middle); if they face a team with good offense they are fucked.
i thought ibra was limping a bit right after the goal so i also thought his knee was bothering him. massive mistake for hanson, but usually in these competitions an individual mistake can decide the fate of a tourney.

now here's my take on the italians... and yes it is a bit biased, however, when romania isnt in the competition usually they or the brits are the teams i cheer on. VNR goal was legit as panucci was off the pitch voluntarily. he clashed with buffon and on his own accord left the pitch to get sorted out. it wasnt involuntary as the italian tifossi are screaming, because he wasnt on the ground and they called the doctors and they took him off the pitch.
toni's goal against romania was valid but thats somewhat disputable. first, i agree with the central ref's decision. it was the lineman's fault. the central ref couldnt see or decide whether it was an offside, but because his lineman raised the flag for an offside, it's his job and duty to disallow it unless he had a better view, which he didnt. second, toni was about 2 meters onside, however delpiero was barely offside. was he an active player? i think this is where debate can go on. he could have been considered active because he might have blocked the field of view of the romanian gk who could have gone and jumped to catch the ball or by not being able to decide which player to go to, del piero could have played an active role in the play.
now romanians always get calls against them, which is why we missed the last 2 major tourneys (04 euro and 06 wc), but it was because we placed ourselves in the position where a bad call from a ref could prevent us from reaching our goal. imo the italians are in the same position: if they play top level football, they will move on regardless of a bad call. now the 02 wc was a different story
, but so was their match against australia in the 06 wc. i dont feel sorry for them at all, in fact they are in no position to talk about refereeing with one of the biggest ref scandals in football taking place just under 2 years ago.
refs are human and they make mistakes, sometime they go against you and sometime they go for you.

my last point, im sick of this shitty match from russia and greece. its not even a tactical, strategic bore as the france romania one was, this is just bad football.i hope the swedes advance so we can see some more quality women

[Steve Graham]

Re: Euro 2008

my god that greece/russia match was awful.. defending champs? you would think they would have been a lot more positive than they were. glad they are out.. and russia if they make it out of the group will get beat in the round of 8 anyway.

[shosh]

Re: Euro 2008

my god that greece/russia match was awful.. defending champs? you would think they would have been a lot more positive than they were. glad they are out.. and russia if they make it out of the group will get beat in the round of 8 anyway.

imo greece didnt play great in 04 either, they just got lucky, they always played for 1-0, it was a surprise they won, especially in the final. its kind of like if romania would go all the way. lol wat?

[Steve Graham]

Re: Euro 2008

oh i agree all the planets were aligned when they won in '04 lol

[TomTom]

Re: Euro 2008

tom, tom, tom... wtf happened man?

sorry for the late answer..was away a few days...what happened is that Germany sucked donkey balls. It felt like they replaced the entire team with mediocre clones of the players. Now it's up to us to kick the 2nd host of this tournament out tomorrow. Hopefully.

[simonr]

Re: Euro 2008

Viva Espania !

... I thought Sweden just aimed to be defensive throughout, and the didi-men (Silva, Xavi, Iniesta) couldn't find a way through against the large athletic outdoors loving scandanavians (copyright Graham Taylor). But Villa and Torres are class and were always going to find a wqay through ... hope David teams up with El-Nino at Liverpool next season.

Holland have been an absolute joy to watch and there fans are the best (sorry TomTom ... I know that many Germans don't like their orange neighbours).

All in all a decent tournament ... Italy v France should be a biggy next week.

[shosh]

Re: Euro 2008

sorry for the late answer..was away a few days...what happened is that Germany sucked donkey balls. It felt like they replaced the entire team with mediocre clones of the players. Now it's up to us to kick the 2nd host of this tournament out tomorrow. Hopefully.

if you guys dont demolish austria, you dont deserve to be in the tourney no longer... srsly, i wouldnt be worried in the least if i were you, its austria ffs

[simonr]

Re: Euro 2008

[Adzey]

Re: Euro 2008

^^ and you still wont be good enough to win the premier league

[Steve Graham]

Re: Euro 2008

^^^ hahaha, exactly

[shosh]

Re: Euro 2008

lols

watchin turkey-czechs right now... the czechs are def better, turks have a couple of spurts here and there, but damn they play dirty, dirty, dirty

[Steve Graham]

Re: Euro 2008

^^^ ummm, want to rethink that? what a HELL of a last 15 minutes! that red card on the Turkish goalie was daft.. but the heart of the Turkish captain.. unbelievable match

[shosh]

Re: Euro 2008

^^^ ummm, want to rethink that? what a HELL of a last 15 minutes! that red card on the Turkish goalie was daft.. but the heart of the Turkish captain.. unbelievable match

yeah they came out as a different team in the 2nd half. im actually glad the turks made it through, the czechs always think they are much better than they really are. yeah the turkish gk was stupid to shove koller and lmao at baros getting a yellow card although he wasnt playing. im sure he had some choice words for karel bruckner for not letting him play, he could have helped some imo

great game, as expected, the last 15 mins fantastic. oh and rofl at petr cech & chelsea at the huge gaffe. wow... cant wait for tuesday, im putting 2 tvs next to eachother haha

[Steve Graham]

Re: Euro 2008

yeah, the announcers here making excuses for the wet ball.. come on, thats why they wear gloves, lmao.. punch the ball.. but even still.. no way he should let in 3 goals in 13 minutes.. best goalie in the world? hardly