[Football] Euros 2024 - Matchday 10

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

No complaints here, I've seen about a dozen movies in this franchise and they always end the same. Can't fault the application, but the quality hasn't really been there for Scotland in this tournament. And the lack of urgency for the first 80 minutes tonight didn't help. Oh well.
C'mon ABE!

England shite enough themselves to get knocked out without needing the help of anyone else..

 

[The Rivet]

Pen call or not, ultimately Scotland were not good enough.

 

[Jackthelad]

Two crappy teams, Brighton youth team would beat both.

 

[dazzer6666]

Never looked like scoring, no surprise.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Varga is conscious and in a stable condition

 

[Weststander]

That would be a shame. Some of the real ones (not Flower of Scotland|) were Scottish sob stories - but as my Scottish best friend said, when we were winning over tough audiences playing round Edinburgh and the borders in the 1970s and I introduced one such song as, 'yet another Scottish sob story' - and his riposte was 'Aye, and there's plenty mair where that came fra!'.

It actually went down quite well!

I work with a load of Scots, all very positive folk about their Britishness and at the same time proud Scots. They explain that for hundreds of years, the overwhelming majority of Scots have been integral to the entire country, its history, the UK has a innate Scottishness. Every now and then a minority (catholics and other Jacobites 300 years ago in league with France), latterly the SNP, emphasise divisions. Alastair Darling explained this well, he said the SNP sought to make Scots dislike the English and vice versa, the oldest nationalist trick in the book.

 

[Triggaaar]

Pen call or not, ultimately Scotland were not good enough.

IF it should have been a pen, I don't think that's fair.

 

[Eeyore]

England shite enough themselves to get knocked out without needing the help of anyone else..

May yet bumble their way to another semi final though.

 

[BN41Albion]

Can't fault the application
...
the lack of urgency for the first 80 minutes tonight didn't help.

 

[BN41Albion]

No. Unfortunately it would be derided as racist, nationalist and xenophobic. Like the English flag.

But the English flag isn't derided as racist, nationalist or xenophobic?

 

[Commander]

Really wanted Scotland to win that. But the fact is they were crap. Penalty shout was 50/50 absolute best, and had they somehow managed to scrape through they’d only have got battered by the first half decent team they’d faced anyway. Miles behind any of the better teams, including England, who have stunk the place out so far.

 

[Jackthelad]

Not to be a perv...but Gabby Logan is looking particularly stunning, what a dress. 51 years old.

 

[jcdenton08]

Not to be a perv...but Gabby Logan is looking particularly stunning, what a dress. 51 years old.

@ManOfSussex I want you to go down to Saul Dangerfield’s casting agency and get me a 51 year old scorcher - and do use those words.

 

[Doonhamer7]

I work with a load of Scots, all very positive folk about their Britishness and at the same time proud Scots. They explain that for hundreds of years, the overwhelming majority of Scots have been integral to the entire country, its history, the UK has an innate Scottishness. Every now and then a minority (catholics and other Jacobites 300 years ago in league with France), latterly the SNP, emphasise divisions. Alastair Darling explained this well, he said the SNP sought to make Scots dislike the English and vice versa, the oldest nationalist trick in the book.

One women and one policy led to the rise of the SNP - Margaret Thatcher, the poll tax

 

[pb21]

Penalty shout was 50/50 absolute best

It's a weird one. Normally 50/50s are when it's almost a penalty, or just about a penalty, in this case it seems to be 50% think it's definitely a penalty and 50% think it's definitely not!

 

[Doonhamer7]

Anyway that was horrendous - total domination in first half and no shots, ffs!

 

[Machiavelli]

In fairness, having just watched about 5,000 slow-mos of the incident, he only gripped and pulled the shirt after the contact and as he was going to ground.

And after having got his body in front of the ball and the player just clatters into him nowhere near it.

 

[Weststander]

One women and one policy led to the rise of the SNP - Margaret Thatcher, the poll tax

1960’s …. Margo Macdonald. A sniff of gas and oil, and the shit stirrers wanting to break a 400 year union started scheming. Labour got almost double the SNP vote in 1992 for example. Salmond took it up a level in 2007, 17 years after Maggie resigned.

 

[jcdenton08]

One more observation about Scotland, they simply didn’t/don’t have a talisman, a quality attacking player who could make something out of nothing. They were left with a stolid, workmanlike midfield without a creative bone in the their body when it comes to the final third (and I’m afraid I’m including WBG in this).

Weaker teams often have one or two really quality players who they hope can magic up a goal or two (such as Szoboszlai tonight for Hungary) whereas Scotland’s best player is a left back.

They didn’t have a chance.

 

[mile oak]

Scots robbed by a Pen.