Euro 2016 begins!

You obviously didn’t read my post Rockape. I’m.married to an English lass & despite my general dislike of footie I’d be quite happy for England to win.

well actually I did, but lets face it….it was any easy decision for you! 😉

Goddamit Bongohooha, if you’ve bet on Wales winning that pretty much condemns us to being knocked out. 😥

I got Iceland in the work sweepstake, so I’m definitely hoping they’ll win on Monday. Might even make the effort to watch my first game of the tournament!

Goddamit Bongohooha, if you’ve bet on Wales winning that pretty much condemns us to being knocked out

Why you think I bet on Iceland 😀

My mate always used to bet against Ireland in the 6 nations on the basis he’d be happy to lose the bet. And if they lost then he’d have the money to buy consolation beers.

that is standard ‘fun’ betting procedure.

Never bet on your own team to win, it’s a double heartache if they lose.

Yes. Fun…

Fun fact…if I had done the above bet to win, rather than qualify, the odds were 5400/1 😯

Fun fact…if I had done the above bet to win, rather than qualify, the odds were 5400/1

Gotta be worth a pound then? 8)

Might get lucky with the cash out I guess… 8)

For some reason Iceland shirts are popular in Scotland.

Ha! This tournament has shown how embarrassingly bad Scotland are. Couldn’t even qualify for an enhanced tournament and Northern Ireland and Wales qualify from the group stage, something we’ve never achieved at a major tournament. Can’t see fortunes changing anytime soon either 😐

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Ha! This tournament has shown how embarrassingly bad Scotland are….

We can’t afford enough foreign millionaires to pretend to be Scottish… 🙂

Should mention that’s twice Wales and NI have got out of the group at a major championship they both did it at the 1958 World Cup. Gotta hurt of you are Scottish.

Hard to know how bad Scottish football in general is. Worth noting that there have been 3 players get game time at the Euros who played for Aberdeen at some point in the recently finished season.

Scotland weren’t too far off getting the play-off place Ireland nabbed in their qualifying group. Scotland took 4 points from their two fixtures with Ireland. It was Ireland’s near miraculous results against Germany wot got them through. I think Scotland would have had as good a chance to progress as Ireland had in their group. Pretty closely matched sides and anybody had a chance against the Italian side put out last night.

Thank god we’ll have some football to take our mind off the madness soon.

Well, until England exits Europe for a second time this week 🙂

Well, until England exits Europe for a second time this week

yeah, no surprise if that line gets trotted out relentlessly for the next however many games! 🙁

Time for England to bow out with the usual bad grace.

When asked about Brexit vote:

“I don’t know enough about it to be concerned about it,” Kane said at England’s training camp near Paris. “And I don’t think the other players do as well.”

– Mr H. Kane.

Good stuff. That’s what we need. Nice empty heads ready to be filled with all of Roy’s tactical wisdom. 8)

To be fair it’s a nice change for a celebrity/sportsman to admit their lack of knowledge on a subject.. one of my pet hates is actors/pop stars assuming that their level of fame somehow elevates their political knowledge/opinion to having more significance that the rest of us.. think Mick Hucknell on This Morning telling us that we should all be voting to go to war in Iraq.. Harry’s there to put the ball in the back of the net, not for his political insights, which have no doubt been repressed by years of media training anyway..

Edit: I’m going for:

Switzerland
Wales
Croatia
France
Germany
Belgium
Spain
England

True. But when compared to what the Italian and German played said its a little disappointing. Like you say it’s probably the media training kicking in. Keep it bland.

was a poor first half, got a bit better towards the end, second started better.

My predictions gubbed at first go! 😆 Though I did say I wasn;t sure on the swiss and belgians!

That was proper clattered

whit a goal! superb shakiri!

😯 😯

What a hit.

power cube does it

I have a bet on Poland/Swiss HT/FT.

There will be no more goals. Sorry.

Penalties… going to be a dramatic start to the knockouts stage…

But that goal… 😯

Sorry for the lack of goals. I bet on a score draw.

it reminds me of england under sven

Oooh. Harsh.

not really .. wales pressing hard.. depends if they can press on for a 2nd from a penalty

Harsh from the point of view of putting it in your own net.

Wales, despite not having many shots on goal, have had NI pinned in their own half.

wales giving ni a chance.. oof wouldn’t want to be the meat in that sandwich! How much gum does coleman chewing gum in a game. I reckon he has a whole packet. Clearly from the school of fergie

Ashley Williams doesn’t look well…

good second half.. enjoyed the heart and commitment from both.. I hope Woy looks on to what could’ve been.

Great to see Wales win that

Boring game unless you are Welsh. If so well done!

That was dirge, but well done Wales.

C’mon Croatia.

I,m welsh and I,m over the moon jim,but by god you wouldn’t want to watch that every week,but then playing way below how you can on your best day and still getting into the last eight is not a bad habit to learn.