fuck fuck fuck these cunts for seeding ukr/pol
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Group A: Poland, Greece, Czech Republic and Russia
― mizzell, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
fucking shite draw.. when's the draw for WC 2014?
― lebateauivre, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
England's base is in Poland, right?
― M. White, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
krakow iirc
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
GROUP A1 Poland2 Greece3 Russia4 Czech Republic
GROUP B1 Netherlands2 Denmark3 Germany4 Portugal
GROUP C1 Spain2 Italy3 Ireland4 Croatia
GROUP D1 Ukraine2 Sweden3 France4 England
― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
rite well that never happeened so let's go back to talking abt grant holt
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Having chosen their base in Poland, England will play all of their matches in Ukraine.
gettting the excuses in early
― mizzell, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Group A is a travesty tbh
― lebateauivre, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
For what it's worth, average FIFA ranking of each group: Group A 31.25, Group B 5.75, Group C 9.75, Group D 23.25
― mizzell, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Ireland can def come second in that group, come on.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
some ppl will prefer the oi! stylings of steve morrison, but for classic, unhurried bigness it's difficult to look beyond holty
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
group a group of bore
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:06 (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
we cant pick morison because i will get a headache everytime i see his name spelt, with one r. it is rong.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
"I'd have Van Basten shot. I would take him outside and execute him in front of his family."
― lebateauivre, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking hell at Group A. You'd be pleased with that if you got it in qualifying.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh fuck lol
Trap out
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, he taught Prandelli everything he knows. He's got this
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect Spain might royally fuck this tournament up. Beat Croatia and you're through imo.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Group A: Poland - Don't know anything about them in 2011, guessing they aren't worth caring about, Greece - Ninis is the Freddy Adu of Greek football, right?, Russia - Excited to see Dzagoev but otherwise snore, GROUP WINNER PICK Czech Republic - Have they produced a talented outfield player in the past ten years?.
Group B: Netherlands - are they still comedy heels?, Denmark - will get destroyed, Germany - Germany v. Holland always a great rivals match; pick to win it all GROUP WINNER PICK, Portugal - ronaldoseesotherdudespackagecontemplateslife.gif .
Group C: Spain - snore GROUP WINNER PICK, Italy - a land of cassano, supermario and berlisconi i want them to have everything, Republic of Ireland - Trapp could do Italy and Croatia tbh in boring 1-0 wins, Croatia - Pros: Modders, Cons: Everyone else.
Group D: Ukraine - lol remember shevchenko? well he's still the best player in their team, Sweden - I <3 Zlatan but come on, France - The 3rd most talented team, on a player by player scale but also LOL France, England - We'll do really well, no-one will really notice and then Wayne'll return GROUP WINNER PICK.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Don't stop at the group stage, get those hostages to fortune out there.
Ismael says: Germany to win, France 2nd, Holland and fucking Greece make the semis.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Germany Spain final in the best international game in 20 years. You know, the sort of game pundits hate because it ends up 1-0. Germany winners.
Portugal and France semi-finalists.
Balotelli gets arrested.
England look good enough to win it, until the old guard come back in and Wayne decides to get sent off 10 minutes in the 2nd round, we lose 3-1 to Ireland in a bout of LOLs.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of a less appealing opening fixture ever than Poland v Greece.
― Matt DC, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
+/- on number of pol/greek players referred to by name prior to game on uk tv coverage
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
More likely to get mention of Boumsong now playing for Panathanikos tbh
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
ireland vs anyone
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 2 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
it will be all "he once had a spell at west brom" and "villa are interested in him" etc etc etc
― pandemic, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
group c + d paired together for the quarter-finals yeah?
― pandemic, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
I hope so - if it's B&C paired together the other side of the draw could deliver a pub team to the final.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
It is C & D
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Krakow-to-Donetsk is almost as far as Krakow-to-London
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Fantasy update: I still can't bring myself to get rid of Rooney. I feel sure that he'll get a hat-trick as soon as I sell him. I've got rid of Suarez instead.
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Pleased to hear it.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
since we have no rolling amazing gol thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8hPOQ_4MVGM
― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
er
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hPOQ_4MVGM
Need a "rolling quite good goal" thread for that tbh.
― i do not have sand in my box (onimo), Saturday, 3 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing they've managed to squeeze two groups of life from 16 teams for the Euros. Next one will have an extra eight teams o_O
― i do not have sand in my box (onimo), Saturday, 3 December 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K68Noif-8ao&
― Number None, Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
at least it means we'll finally see bale and ramsey and hazard and lukaku and also lots of games not worth watching
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
so leverkusen-hoffenheim was a bit of a non event last night. Leverkusen won 2-0 but looked unimpressive doing it and hoffenheim gave there usual anemic performance away from home, although Babel missed a sitter from 3 yards that would have made it 1-1 in the first half.
dan m, boxall, and any other followers of the US national team might like to know that Daniel Williams did v well as the sitting midfielder in a pretty negative 4-1-4-1 formation - good anticipation, tackling, blocks etc although his use of the ball wasn't that great. Fabian Johnson started as well but didn't have much positive impact.
dortmund-gladbach this weekend should be good.
― pandemic, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/altreport/2011/12/alt-soccer-coach-jose-mourinho-cover-rolling-stone.html
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
he's coached real madrid to "championship upon championship" has he?
― pandemic, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
ha, didn't read past that line. d'oh to me.
― pandemic, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
consider the source, dude
― Julie Lagger, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/footballs-hidden-killer-6271406.html
about enke and suicide in football
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/1128/1224308220678.html
Collymore actually wrote about his own experience of depression in the week before Gary Speed died. It was one of the most accurate insights into the reality I've ever read, tbh.
― Julie Lagger, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
anyone else gonna watch this? i have a sneaky suspicion it could turn out a classic*
just jinxed this obv
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in. trying to decide which team is better off losing from a parochial LFC pov.
― pandemic, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link