#5795123 - 06/24/12 05:06 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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Racetrack
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This tournament is the worst i can remember. Nothing like the amazing Euro 2000. Only 1 or 2 good games.
Oh well i'll take another dull game tonight if we can get through.
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#5795203 - 06/24/12 07:47 AM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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Comicopolis
Only 7000 posts in more than 7 years - that's just lazy.
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This tournament is the worst i can remember. Nothing like the amazing Euro 2000. Only 1 or 2 good games.
Oh well i'll take another dull game tonight if we can get through. I thought the tournament showed a lot of promise in the early stages. The quarters have been a disappointment, though. Still, England will set the example. 
None of the games in the quarters so far have been competitive.
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#5796144 - 06/24/12 05:52 PM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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tth2
"I blame it on the low quality of the newbies that are joining the boards."
--And with one swoop tth2 become the community crotchety old man. Damn kids today.
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It's deja vu all over again.
Except this time there can be no argument that England has been cruelly denied by penalties, as they were poor except for a brief spell in the first half. Gerrard was poor, Rooney was poor, Young was poor, Welbeck was poor, and while Parker was okay in defense, he couldn't make seem to make the simplest of passes.
Italy clearly had done their homework and swarmed on any England player with the ball, knowing that there was not going to be quick one-touch passing to expose the swarming defense. Italy are lacking the predatory striker that they usually seem to have to give them a good chance of going deep in the tournament, although playing Germany will give them a team to play their classic counter-attack strategy against. Still, it's hard not to see Germany going through.
At this point, it's sure looking like a repeat of the 2008 final, except this time Spain won't have a Torres at the top of his game to win the game.
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#5796151 - 06/24/12 05:54 PM
Re: Life's incontrovertible truths:
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tth2
"I blame it on the low quality of the newbies that are joining the boards."
--And with one swoop tth2 become the community crotchety old man. Damn kids today.
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Life's incontrovertible truths: --- all persons are born equal --- the sun rises (so it appears) in the east and water's wet --- England will lose the penalty kick shoot-out ...all three as sure as the North Star... 
I was surprised to see how poor Italy's record in shoot outs has been. Fortunately for them, they were up against a side with an even worse record. 
Edited by tth2 (06/24/12 05:55 PM)
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#5796177 - 06/24/12 06:03 PM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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Ariamus
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It's deja vu all over again.
Except this time there can be no argument that England has been cruelly denied by penalties, as they were poor except for a brief spell in the first half. Gerrard was poor, Rooney was poor, Young was poor, Welbeck was poor, and while Parker was okay in defense, he couldn't make seem to make the simplest of passes.
Italy clearly had done their homework and swarmed on any England player with the ball, knowing that there was not going to be quick one-touch passing to expose the swarming defense. Italy are lacking the predatory striker that they usually seem to have to give them a good chance of going deep in the tournament, although playing Germany will give them a team to play their classic counter-attack strategy against. Still, it's hard not to see Germany going through.
At this point, it's sure looking like a repeat of the 2008 final, except this time Spain won't have a Torres at the top of his game to win the game.
All the talk of England's quality today is superfluous, IMO. the Three Lions showed absolutely ZERO interest in playing for the win after extra time. They deserved to lose playing for the PK shoot-out. It would have been a travesty if we had had a "blind squirrel" or "broken clock" moment in Kiev tonight...
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#5796185 - 06/24/12 06:07 PM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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Racetrack
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Three Lions? More like 11 kittens.
Every two years it's the same old only this time i didn't get caught up in the hype, makes it easier to take.
Phase one of our summer sorted. Now to do the usual at Wimbledon and the Olypmics to make it a hat trick.
Wake me up when Liverpool are playing again.
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#5796186 - 06/24/12 06:08 PM
Re: The Official 2011-12 FIFA/UEFA/Premier League Football Discussion Thread
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buddymagoo
The Post-man always rings twice. Uhm... ring ring?
Registered: 03/24/12
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It's deja vu all over again.
Except this time there can be no argument that England has been cruelly denied by penalties, as they were poor except for a brief spell in the first half. Gerrard was poor, Rooney was poor, Young was poor, Welbeck was poor, and while Parker was okay in defense, he couldn't make seem to make the simplest of passes.
Italy clearly had done their homework and swarmed on any England player with the ball, knowing that there was not going to be quick one-touch passing to expose the swarming defense. Italy are lacking the predatory striker that they usually seem to have to give them a good chance of going deep in the tournament, although playing Germany will give them a team to play their classic counter-attack strategy against. Still, it's hard not to see Germany going through.
At this point, it's sure looking like a repeat of the 2008 final, except this time Spain won't have a Torres at the top of his game to win the game.
Rooney and Welbeck linked up well in the first half when we had our best spell of the game and Welbeck was taken off too soon at 60m with Carrol coming on and doing nothing. That was not the problem though, as always it was the midfield unable to provide any stability unlike like Italy's with Pirlo. We need a Carrick or Scholes and hopefully we will get that with Wiltshire or Cleverley.
Edited by buddymagoo (06/24/12 06:12 PM)
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