Football (Soccer)
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Torn from the Guardian.co.uk Euro 2012 blog:
10.19am: A madman speaks, presumably out of his car window.
Before the tournament, I said organisation in defence was key but, against the Swedes, England showed how threatening they are up fron. Every other team at the Euros will have taken note and nobody will fancy playing us.
"With Wayne Rooney at last available now for the match against Ukraine, there's no way he can be left out. I'd play him alongside Danny Welbeck, who gives England good movement.
"The pair have developed a great understanding at Manchester United and we could reap the rewards of that. Wayne is raring to go, so I'm backing him to score.
"With the added threat of Andy Carroll off the bench, England have a scary looking attack. Steven Gerrard has had two very good games at the Euros and his cross for Carroll showed what pin-point accuracy he possesses.
"Frankly, I wouldn't swap England's front six for any at this tournament – including Spain's.
"We will beat Ukraine. They'll have their home fans roaring and Andriy Shevchenko will be determined to have a glorious swansong, but I'm not impressed.
"They were lucky to win their first match and France exposed their defensive weaknesses.
"The hosts need a win whereas we only need a draw. They'll go for it, that will leave them exposed and Theo Walcott and Ashley Young could terrorise them on the break.
"Andriy Pyatov looks dodgy in goal and if we're as rampant as we were against Sweden, then we could be ahead at half-time and full-time."
Harry Redknapp everybody! Either he's doing his best to ratchet up the pressure on Mr Roy, or he's not taking his sacking very well. Can someone check he's all right?Sheer comedy
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After the last 20mins Croatia should be 3-1 up. As it stands, they're going out. Shame…
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Italia Italia Italia man I hope England will jump into quarter finals as well
England won't jump anywhere, they'll either limp pathetically or go out… I really wish the English media would stop treating every single win like it's the fucking '66 WC final... But they won't sigh
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Here we go again - oh my giddy heart… ::)
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one of my bets:
ENG 3 : UKR 1
SWE 1 : FRA 3let's see how that goes
I think you could be in trouble with those score lines…
France don't seem to want to bother with a game of football tonight. England seem to have forgotten how to play football and seem pretty content to watch Ukraine steam past them at every opportunity.
Ukraine the better team at the moment.
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England are currently mugging the Ukraine.
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Aaaah, England got through. G doesn’t understand why I get so emotional. Difference between a family that took you fly fishing and a family that took you to watch footie I guess…
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@Madame:
Aaaah, England got through. G doesn’t understand why I get so emotional. Difference between a family that took you fly fishing and a family that took you to watch footie I guess…
so good!…so it seams your part of the fam. did a great job!
G´s as well o/course (but not when it comes to soccer i guess!)
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The only emotions I've felt in the last 25 years of following England are fury and disappointment
Thankfully, as I fully expected them to be rubbish in this tournament and come home early, I have been pleasantly surprised thus far
Now we just have to beat Italy, Portugal, and either Germany or Spain in the final…..trophy
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@Madame:
Difference between a family that took you fly fishing and a family that took you to watch footie I guess…
Was G's butler not a footie fan ?
