Euro 2016
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Australia do not qualify as a European country, they are not playing in Euro 2016, and never will. Australia take part in the European Song Contest as a guest country and probably because they pay European Broadcasting Union handsomely to do so. Can anybody
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Australia do not qualify as a European country, they are not playing in Euro 2016, and never will. Australia take part in the European Song Contest as a guest country and probably because they pay European Broadcasting Union handsomely to do so. Can anybody
tell me how Israel are part of UEFA.Israeli Football has a somewhat complicated history. They have played in three different regions for World Cup qualification, but put very simply, no one wanted to play them in the first two regions, so they are now in the more European zone. They are not
an issue, they rarely qualify for the final stages. The one claim to glory was beating France a good while ago! Some good individual players though, Yossi Benayoun?0 -
Anyway, I am off to St Davids next week, I will be in Wales when the Wales v England game is on. Do you think I would be best advised to watch n the van, or find a pub?
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Anyway, I am off to St Davids next week, I will be in Wales when the Wales v England game is on. Do you think I would be best advised to watch n the van, or find a pub?
Well if footy is your forte, then find a pub And join in the festivities -- just don't be a typical English misery guts -- it takes two sides to make a match, and both should be appreciated
!!P.S. I'm Very English but can enjoy a good bit of banter with the best of 'em
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Don't know whar a typical English misery guts actually is! I hope England win, but, like Kennine says, I am not optimistic we or any of the home nations can win the Championship. Still, I did see the 1966 win (11 years old at the time!) and you never know,
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I hope the the Home nations do well. Northern Ireland is 500/1 at the moment but I wish them all the best They, like the other home nations, are "One of us". . Wales could really surprise us and England will definitely do well.
As for "Foreign" countries I will be following Sweden Germany and Spain. Hope they do really well.
And that's from a Rugby Football supporter.
K
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Why does football cause people to behave in a way quite alien to the rest of us?
Write your comments here... For the players too much money and not enough brains. For the onlookers too much booze and not enough brains.
Write your comments here...Very good points Bob. Football (soccer) seems to attract the antisocial thugs in our society.
Rugby, Hurling, and Shinty cater for the more intelligent and civilised . Their supporters enjoy their respective sports, are well behaved and a pleasure to have as visitors to any town or city.
K
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Why does football cause people to behave in a way quite alien to the rest of us?
Write your comments here... For the players too much money and not enough brains. For the onlookers too much booze and not enough brains.
I agree to an extent, although, to put it in perspective, it's just the idiots who have enough money to throw away on following the bloated businesses calling themselves Premier League clubs or to spend vast sums on following those so called "top professionals".
Down in the lower leagues, there is rarely any trouble and fans mix happily on match day. The police at the Mem, where Rovers play, are cheerful and sociable with the fans, and have few reasons to ever intervene.
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it now transpires that the trouble was not limited to England but also to France and Russia.
I wonder how many of us would give up a little of our intelligence forthe talent of kicking a ball around and making millions as a result, are they who they really mugs!
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Wales game just starting now. of all the National Anthems Wales comes out tops, then The French one a close second. . England of course doesn't have one of their own, so I cannot rate them.
This game started well, Wales depending on their good defence.
Wales has just scored - great goal !!!!!!!
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Wales game just starting now. of all the National Anthems Wales comes out tops, then The French one a close second. . England of course doesn't have one of their own, so I cannot rate them.
This game started well, Wales depending on their good defence.
Wales has just scored - great goal !!!!!!!
Wherever the English National Anthem originated, I do believe the Marshal Wade verse should be heard more often.
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A well deserved win for Wales. Well Played. Two great results so far France and Wales......
Just need Russia to do well later !!!!!
That will make it a good game -- England will win no problems but we dont want it to be a complete walkover do.we.
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To be fair there is very little trouble in the Premier League either. However, unfortunately it is the few that cause trouble, that also go out to follow England. Remember there are 1000s of English supporters out there who aren't causing any bother.
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Didn't watch it so can't comment K, I take it England lost...
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That seems like "par for the course" with England, when it comes down to the nitty gritty England can't cut it....
Been the same for years, unfortunately, they think they are gods and dont worry if they lose as their wallets' talk instead of pride...
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Just watched the disgraceful scenes on the news, might be best if all Englands' future games were played without any supporters, that goes for Russia as well. What an advert for English fans .....Mindless!!!...
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Wales were superb esterday and thoroughly deserved their win. With three points in the bag already they've got a pretty good chance of goig through to the next round. Well done them.
England played really well for most of the match - though not as brilliantly as the so called experts in the studio were drooling about! They probably deserved to win but if you don't take your chances you can't complain afterwards. One thing that puzzles
me is why our most physical striker, Harry Kane, is taking the corner kicks and some free kicks. Shouldn't he be in the box putting himslf about at corners? Surely at this level any of the others should be able to deliver a pretty accurate set piece?
Fingers crossed for Northern Ireland this afternoon!
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At least Brexit would stop the free movement of fans.
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