[Closed] EURO 2012 **SPOILERS**

Liked Welbeck, not so sure about Young. Gerrards distribution was pretty poor at times tbh.

Still, 1-1 is a decent result and the performance was honest and hard working with some positives for the future.

Can't complain really.

Liked Welbeck, not so sure about Young

agree. we'll be better in that regard when rooney returns. young didn't show himself enough when we needed an out, but despite that we seemed to keep the ball comfortably at times i thought.

we could have done with ukraine and sweden sharing the points mind.

all im going to say is that if rooney was in milners position england would have won that 2-1. and thats coming from a scotsman 😉

if rooney was in milners position england would have won that 2-1

or Welbeck, or Defoe, or......

Not Ashley Young though. He'd have knocked it past the GK, dived over his outstretched arm, and then Gerrard would have missed the penalty. We'd be deflated, France would go on to win 2-0. Small mercies.....

, not so sure about Young. Gerrards distribution was pretty poor at times tbh.

Not the time when he created our only goal though eh. 🙂

😯

Germans looking very strong!
Robben, mardy ****!

Robben, mardy ****!

Some great football today and here in Brazil there is a massive game tonight Santos vs Corinthians in the Copa Libadores (South America Champions League) 🙂

Here we go - England's 2nd game tonight & I am looking forward to it, & may be even a little bit excited....

Come on England!

i hope everyone just stays grounded about it. only roy's 4th game and against a team that we've never beaten in a competitive match.

i hear that he's going to play carrol and wellbeck but i'd rather he keep the same team and hit them on the break, just try and be a bit more adventurous when we do it. going toe to toe with sweden plays to their strengths not ours imho.

still, trust in roy.

Well Torres looked like he'd found his shooting boots at the back of the wardrobe. Lets hope the other overpriced donkey knows where his are this evening. Looks like he's going to start him. Hardly inspires confidence, does it? For a striker* his positional play is absolutely woeful!

I was quite impressed that we weren't just hoofing long balls up front the other night. I can't see that being the case tonight. The only chance we've got of actually scoring IMHO is set pieces, and him sticking his big, daft pony-tailed noggin on the end of it.

* The word is used figuratively, and in no way suggests any actual ability

Well Torres looked like he'd found his shooting boots at the back of the wardrobe. Lets hope the other overpriced donkey knows where his are this evening. Looks like he's going to start him. Hardly inspires confidence, does it? For a striker* his positional play is absolutely woeful!

Talking about £20million Ashley Young ?^^^
He was out of position and out of his depth. A bit cruel to call him a striker 'cos he should be a wideman, but he made the sh1te french centre backs look very comfortable. He offered nothing, leaving young Danny Welbeck to do the work of two men.
Let alone his shooting boots, hope he finds his feet back out on the wing tonight. England need to offer some sort threat from both of the front two, and support them with a few crosses in open play.
Agree with the set pieces too. Sweden let in loads of headers: reckon it's Terry's turn for 1st scorer. Or Carrol if he plays 😉

Well that didn't last long. 🙁

😯

Nice weather tho init!

Never seen a game stopped due to Thunder & lightening. Epic.

That pitch is starting to look waterlogged, this may not restart.

6pm restart time predicted.

Looks to me like ITV didn't have a back-up plan. Bit of ad-lib by Adrian Chiles 😆

Can he give an update on the Ferdinand situation, I don't feel its been discussed enough yet.

They can reply the England's greatest Euro triumph's, that should fill 30 seconds or so....

& they're off again...

'kin lightweights, we used to play in the snow at school! 😈

Ukraine looking outclassed here.. interesting.

But they're playing their no. 9 at right-back.
I'll support them just for that.
(And they're not france 😉 )

'kin lightweights, we used to play in the snow at school!

Certainly am.

Oh dear!
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Good work by the Swedish newspaper, capturing fleet streets terrible punning perfectly, probably should have at least hinted at some latent racism for full authenticity.

It's Friday night, football kicking on telly, Chinese, beer, weekend on the bike..

"Is smug"

Best of luck to the Englanders. Hope they do well...they have my support, just not my emotional involvement...I'm currently pretending the tournament doesn't really exist. 🙁

That's gotta hurt binners 😆

Gerrard to Carroll...

😀
Gerrard is a great great player and that was a fine header

get in

Guardedly, Immagonnasay I'm pleased for Carroll. Taken a lot of stick this year...a lot of it deservedly. But sometimes, you can't beat having a big lad in the box...it's worked for Sweden for years. 🙂

the power's in the pony tail

Just picked this up on the BBC text commentary:

"Carroll leapt like a majestic salmon to nod that in."

😆 😆 😆

It was a well taken header, and he did seam to be a good five foot of the ground 😯

Lost composure for 5 mins or so after getting the goal, but then regained control, which has been something they have failed to do in recent history so was good to see.

Bit of a blatant dive by Young in there as well, but balanced out by the same from Ibrahimovic.

that carol bird playing for England can head well for a wench

oh dear 👿

Back to basics...

that carol bird playing for England can head well for a wench

come back Fabio...

Wow. England are really rubbish at football aren't we?

Fabio????? Hodgson isn't on the pitch, it's 11 others who can't defend!

he he he, can that man make a substitute or what?