Rep. of Ireland v Sweden

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Also do you think the group of death helps or hinders 0-0 results

 

[Simster]

I did the same on Northern Ireland, didn't work

Whereas I wish I'd had the courage of my convictions there and done the Poland to win to nil. I didn't though, annoyingly.

Also do you think the group of death helps or hinders 0-0 results

Well I don't think it's having much effect on this one. Both sides are looking for the result, but you're asking for two well organised defences to concede from a mistake, unless Zlatan produces a moment of genius or something.

 

[ArcticBlue]

Sweden looking more bland than usual.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Ohh Eire get the crossbar rocking

 

[symyjym]

Hendrick deserved to score from that effort.

 

[T soprano]

Swedish player goes down injured on 42nd minute play doesn't get going again till 45th min, 1 minute of injury time, how's that work then( pisses you off when you need a first half goal for a bet)

 

[Ernest]

Another woeful advert for World football, time to abolish the World Cup and Euros as all they do is encourage corruption at FIFA and UEFA

 

[sir albion]

International football is getting bloody worse and more like league 1 standards at times....Christ where is all the talent?

Boring with a lack of goals

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

So many of these matches have been very poor.

Sent from the boot of Lingard

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

What a ****ing beauty!!!

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Great to see that go in.

 

[ManOfSussex]

That was liquid football.

 

[Eggman]

Games livened up now. Come on Sverige!

 

[Beach Hut]

Super strike

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

That's really unfortunate.

 

[Eggman]

Get IN

 

[ManOfSussex]

The Aston Villa defender has got football pie all over his shirt................................

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I'm really hoping Sweden win!! My wife is Irish, and I love her and her family for lots of reasons. However, their desire for England to lose in any sporting event, has made me equally blinkered where ROI are concerned!!
Have to go there for a wedding in a few weeks and just hope we have had a better tournament than them!!!

Bloody boghoppers!
Toothless simpletons and men with eyebrows on their cheeks.

 

[Bwian]

Delighted that Sweden managed to equalize. It would have been unbearable with the BBC's and ITV's Irish love in had they won. Bara bra och tack Sverige or something like that.

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Years ago, an Irish woman I corresponded with in a work context told me that during an England V Portugal game, she went into a bar and it was full of locals wearing Portugal shirts. I have travelled a lot and lived abroad, yet I still find it strage how much the English are hated in a sporting context. By some (it would be foolish to assume it applies across the board, vide the comments on another thread about the French, and when I go to Germany I get enormous lots of love, albeit my contacts are all academics). My conclusion is 'its complicated'. We live in a very nuanced time, unsurprisingly as we are very nuanced creatures. Take all the spats on NSC . . . . given time they usually end up with a handshake and a sense that we share far more in commen than we digress. Personally I was rooting moderately for the ROI, but not especially bothered. Apologies for navel gazing on this 'teletext update' thread