*** Official *** Euro 2008

[Tom Halsey]

As usual in football you have to be somewhat dishonest to be rewarded.

That should have been a penalty.

I didn't think it was a penalty anyway, though I agree to a certain extent, in that if he had gone down he'd probably have got a penalty, whether it should have been or not.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I didn't think it was a penalty anyway, though I agree to a certain extent, in that if he had gone down he'd probably have got a penalty, whether it should have been or not.

Horse was knocked off balance even tho he did everything possible (and more than is reasonable) to hurdle Buffon. It wasn't one of those where the player leaves their back leg behind or just runs straight into the keeper.

 

[Nate]

Spainnnn

 

[jammay123]

good work by el nino for the first spanish goal

 

[steds]

Good man, David Villa.

 

[steds]

As usual in football you have to be somewhat dishonest to be rewarded.

That should have been a penalty.

I didn't think it was a penalty anyway, though I agree to a certain extent, in that if he had gone down he'd probably have got a penalty, whether it should have been or not.

Coming back to this, agree with Halsey that I don't think it was a penalty. All credit to Ruud for staying up rather than going downlike 90% of players would.

Personally think it's a sad indictment of football as a sport that someone can describe a penalty as a reward for going down, rather than a punishment for breaking the rules, and nobody disagrees. Feel fully justified in my comments on how soft the sport is.

 

[steds]

Want Spain to shut up shop for 45 minutes now.

 

[headhunter]

Villa hat-trick.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Bugger, no full points in the tipping comp for me then.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Bugger, no full points in the tipping comp for me then.

Likewise.

Hopefully Hiddink gets Russia motivated and puts Sweden out at an early stage.

 

[headhunter]

Was just looking at it before he scored the third, a number of us tipped 2-0 and 1 or 2 of these had Villa aswell.

 

[steds]

Bloody Fabregas robbed me of a point.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Indeed, offside as well.

 

[roseboy64]

Erm... relevance?

Read above you, you......

 

[BoyBrumby]

Hopefully Hiddink gets Russia motivated and puts Sweden out at an early stage.

Not all a big Scandinavian love-in, then?

Anyway, Russia are dire. Just puts into perspective how poor we've become.

 

[headhunter]

Re: Brumby's Sig

Haha, this David Mitchell bloke is on fine form.

 

[grecian]

Greece anti-football

I'm ashamed of my user name, tbh.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Anyway, Russia are dire. Just puts into perspective how poor we've become.

Won't argue the presence of a cat flap at the back, but they did very nearly score two goals on Spain.

Don't like the Swedes because they're rubbing it in on us that they have a decent team, when in actual fact it's filled with guys like Alexandersson, Petter Hansson, Anders Svensson and Ljungberg (the latter two were good five years ago).

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Petter Hansson

qed. What an exquisite back header.

meh. Zlatan scores.

 

[jammay123]

screamer from zlatan. if only he could do that against proper teams when it counts