Euros 2016

canefan

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="592496" data-time="1467068355">What do you expect if you pick a team full of Tottenham players? To actually win something? 
 
 
Iceland are a great, feel good story. 
 
 
Who the fuck is going to win this thing? I still think Germany, but the Italians were pretty bloody good. </blockquote>Not that the others were any better but they showed about as much invention as my Spurs did on their bad days last season. Fancy losing to a glorified pub team

Tim

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Not quite, England are pretty shit at football. It's more like Samoa losing to Namibia. 
 
She's a funny old game tournament soccer. Because of the scoring, results like this come up reasonably often. It's not that long since Greece won the Euro tournament. Not sure they had ever even won a finals game before that?
 
Iceland now get France. They are again, a realistic chance. They are organised and disciplined, and France are very French, hardly a united squad, playing erratic football. France should win by a couple, but...
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Denmark winning 92 is good story. They were a late replacement because Yugoslavia erupted into civil war.

taniwharugby

Chris B.

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Best summary I've seen.

taniwharugby

MiketheSnow

Serious stuff first ;)
 
Italy looked great.
 
Iceland. The better team. End of. Fantastic, fantastic result.
 
Hooroo went 5-3 with Round of 16 predictions
 
QF DRAW
 
Thursday 30 June Poland v Portugal
Friday 01 July Wales v Belgium
Saturday 02 July Germany v Italy
Sunday 03 July France v Iceland
 
Heart says Poland, Wales, Italy, Iceland
Head says Portugal, Belgium, Germany, France

MiketheSnow

Now back to England

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Roy Hodgson - The only man with a coherent plan for leaving Europe
 
And I'll just leave this here :)
 
 
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jegga

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So this may not be the crowning achievement of his career. 
I'll see myself out.
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MiketheSnow

mariner4life

I saw that Shteve one earlier, it's fucking gold. You couldn't script it better, or improve it with Bill Murray's timing or facial expression

NTA

Check out @TheTodayShow's Tweet: <a class="bbc_url" href="

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MiketheSnow

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Check out @TheTodayShow's Tweet: <a class="bbc_url" href="

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Brilliant

MiketheSnow

It just keeps getting better and better :)
 
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Tordah

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It just keeps getting better and better :)
 
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didn't happen
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/'>http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/</a>

Catogrande

Mike, you don't think you're taking a little bit too much comfort from all this do you?

MiketheSnow

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didn't happen
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/'>http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/</a>
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Stand corrected

MiketheSnow

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Mike, you don't think you're taking a little bit too much comfort from all this do you?
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Gentle ribbing then nothing but admiration for the English rugby team when they deliver.
 
But when you're constantly bombarded with 'England football are awesome' by the media and England football fans, when they fail spectacularly it's hilarious.
 
24 hrs and then it stops :)

infidel

To those comparing this loss to SA v Japan etc, it was in no way much worse betting wise, Iceland were 10/1 so a 10% chance of winning, so this "upset" was more likely to happen.
 
Japan I think were 30/1, so more of a surprise.
 
Reputation-wise, it may have been much worse, as the population comparisons etc are embarrassing, and England football fans have a deluded sense of their team's ability and are shocked when the perform poorly, tournament after tournament.

Cookie

Do shit in tournament. National uproar, manager sacked. We realise we're shit. 
New manager and young team assembled. Optimism. 
We do well in the qualifiers. New hope. Media lauds new look England 
Next tournament arrives, this time we're gonna win it! it's a golden generation of new players 
Do shit in tournament. National uproar, rinse and repeat.

Bovidae

I read an interesting fact about the success of England and Germany since the 1966 WC final. 
 
England have won only 6 knockout games at major tournament since that time. Germany have won 6 tournaments.

The Silver Fern

Euros 2016