[Football] Saturday Euro Games

[Eric the meek]

Ok. My timing is crap. I'll take it on the chin.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Some of these tackles are as close as you can get to having a punch up but pretending you are actually playing football to fool the ref.
Great stuff.

 

[Eric the meek]

Ok. My timing is crap. I'll take it on the chin.

If anyone was wondering what I meant, my son goes onto my laptop (I watch the footie on it), rewinds the game a bit, and thinks it's funny. So any comments I make, may be referring to play that took place several minutes ago. I'll get him back, don't worry.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Moder and his Poland teammates look knackered.

 

[Dick Head]

Gor blimey!



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[1066familyman]

Gor blimey!

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They had even more than that in the Sweden game.

 

[Stat Brother]

Surprised Sanchez isn't playing - this lot in front of him must be like a busman's holiday.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Great match, the players from both sides have given everything.

 

[Dick Head]

They had even more than that in the Sweden game.

Well, so they bloody well did an' all!

 

[Questions]

Klinsmann is top of my list of annoying Germans.

Oh for me it’s still Hitler sorry.

 

[1066familyman]

Surprised Spain yet again don't bring Traore on. Seems like the perfect player to unlock a game like this.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Oh for me it’s still Hitler sorry.

He was Austrian.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Good game that.
A great day for good matches.
All three today have been excellent.

 

[Eric the meek]

Oh for me it’s still Hitler sorry.

Too obvious. Although Klinsmann is top of the list, that blond bloke in 'Where Eagles Dare' who used his SS uniform to try and get into the waitress's knickers, pissed me off as well. Far too German if you ask me.

 

[1066familyman]

Well, so they bloody well did an' all!

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Highest possession stats ever in this competition's history apparently.

 

[VAL1850]

Spain doing an England.

 

[1066familyman]

Good game that.
A great day for good matches.
All three today have been excellent.

Agreed.

Chalk and cheese from yesterday's games in the entertainment stakes.

 

[vagabond]

Well, so they bloody well did an' all!

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Potter would be proud.

 

[Questions]

He was Austrian.

So he wasn’t even qualified to start a World War on behalf of Germany……..

What a sneaky git

 

[Bry Nylon]

Your post got me thinking about the phrase world class. I initially nodded my head in agreement about your assertion that Kane and Sterling are perhaps our only world class players. But what do we actually mean by "world class"? My instant definition was a player that would be signed by a Barca or a Bayern. However, the PL is universally recognised as the best league in the world. You need only hear the pundits during today's Germany game to learn that Havertz really struggled with the pace of the PL at first, stating that he found his first game against little ol' Brighton extremely difficult, whereas playing a team of comparable stature in the Bundesliga would have been a game he could have played in second or third gear. Does the fact that Trippier was signed by current La Liga champs Atletico make him world class? I'd say no.

Do we mean Champions League finalists? Well in that case, half our team are made up of them.

Like I say, I instinctively agree with your assertion. I don't see Italy and Germany as world class, but certainly France and Belgium. But the only thing that separates the likes of Pogba and Griezmann than our players is that they've won on the international stage. Hopefully ours can do that one day!

There are some world class English players in the PL when they play for their club sides with pace, guile, imagination and courage.

But when Southgate gets hold of them all that flair is suppressed in favour of dour, timid, safety-first snooze-ball that creates a team significantly less that the sum of its parts.

That’s quite some achievement.