Euro 2016 begins!

Best of luck to our brothers in the North. Lots of seas-of-green this tournament! 🙂

Come on Northern Ireland

*Whispers*

C’mon, Poland!

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They’re going to need to get out of their own half at some stage.

You could have said the same about the Russians in the first half last night Bravissimo 😉

Come on Norn Ireland!

Slack Alice, did you even watch the game? 😆

Tru dat binners.

England don’t have a Lewandowski though.

Lewandowski keeps falling over. I hope his legs are ok…

Nice take, and no rolling about from Szcz?sny.

Nice to see diving penalised.

Junky is a Scot by birth. Even football threads have their uses.

Does clarify one or two things eh Edukator? 😉

Hope Poland break down this mob, hate seeing teams play without any thought for attacking.

Can’t see NI keeping out the Poles (can you say that?) for the whole game.

Wonder if Sterling will start the next game?

Ooofft, what a strike from Croatia, wicked dip under the keeper. Just seen that. 🙂

Did the evil voice put the keeper off ?

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Wooo!

🙂 bang goes that game plan!

Yes seosam, I did! 😀

Don’t get me wrong, they played better than they have for many years, however, my point remains that any decent side would have exposed the frailties I highlighted to a far greater degree than the Russians managed.

A team of such young average age does mean that they looked run out during the second half, blowing their loads too early I fear.

Crikey, this is a tough game for NI. Must be knackering to spend an hour chasing a ball and hardly touching it. Lucky to be only 1-0 down. So still hope. If Russia could do it…

They played fine, just glaringly missing a focal point in attack.

Canny see it, the Russians just wereny great so pushed back by England. They didn’t intentionally play defensively.

Saying that at 1 0 is precarious so who knows. Pressure looks right off Poland the now though.

The ‘focal point in attack’ had apoarently been told to concentrate on taking corners

When Kane was on korners in the friendlies, I thought it was just Woy messing about. When it carried on into the actual tournament I just gave up.

poland are a bit meh here, shouldn’t have taken their foot of the gas, they’d have taken a few more. guess they are happy with 1-0, but that’s a dangerous game to play.

Skybet must really fancy Ukraine’s chances.

NI did all that could be asked really, bit sloppy on the goal not to have one of the three central players at edge of the box but a valient effort.

So roll on Germany Ukraine, fingers crossed for an upset 😉

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That reminded me of watching Ireland during Euro2012. 😐

(Though I imagine I’ll be reminded again against Sweden.)

(Though I imagine I’ll be reminded again against Sweden.)

Nah, now I have them in the sweepstake, they’re going to do a Leicester and win the thing.

They have players like Vardy, Mahrez, Drinkwater etc right?

ukraine started bright, get the impression the germans will gear up, already looking like they are starting to shift through them.. 🙂

bosh

nice baw in, free header though, poor marking. 1-0. ye’d expect the germans to dominate and take a few, ukraine struggling to get near the german box, I can only see them getting pushed back further.

Yep, nice header, but goes back to what i was saying in the other thread. WTF was that defender doing, how can you get wrong side of your man from a free kick – epic fail.

Germany will win the 2016 cup.

Spain probably runner up.

Croatia seems to have too many old legs otherwise they are good.

England probably get booted out due to the hooligans in the second round.

great save, the ukrainians aren’t without a chance here, look like they know where the goal is, if they can get up to it. 🙂

If Muller scores a header, and gets a yellow card, I will be quite happy.

I see Joachim Löw’s assistant still daren’t tell him that he doesn’t want them to dress like twins anymore. I find it a bit bizarre. Managers/coaches should be in team suit or in team sporting attire – not looking like 50 year olds going out on the town.

ohhh ffs, should have been 1-1! nice play from ukraine, very much trying to play it tight and patiently wait for their chances, which will be few but, they should have a few more before the games out! 🙂

Holy ****!

How did that not go in?

Edit: Guessing the iPlayer is on a delay? 😀