The Euros
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It wasn't any Green eyed God that angered me today -- it was the tv pictures of the Danish 'keeper Kasper Schmeichel being facially illuminated by some cretin with what appeared to be a laser beam !
Now I will head up the wooden hills, to sleep, to dream of what I would like to do to that { word Deleted User } !!
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Very true, I speak many tongues but gobbledegook is not one of them I’m afraid. If you are attempting to say something best speak plain👍🏻
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The one thing we noticed about the Spain v Italy Semi? Not a single black player in either team, and, given what happened to Zinedine Zidane in his very last game, (World Cup Final), I am worried for England’s black players. The Italians are masters of the Dark Arts of Football, way beyond the odd foul here and there.
Disgusting behaviour from whoever used that laser pen. However, Schmeichel’s initial save was superb, shame his defenders didn’t react as fast as Harry Kane did. Given that England had what appeared to be a penalty chance denied earlier in game, justice was I think, duly served.
Sincerely hoping that England win🤞
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BB, they were 66 heroes, but your view might be slightly through rose tinted specs. Nobby Stiles and Jack Charlton were two of the game’s hard men, they had to be given what the game was like then. Think of England’s 66 game against Argentina. You don’t get someone like Rattin, Argentina’s captain, sent off by sheer luck alone.
High level competitive team sports are hard, occasionally nasty, but the aim is to win, not quite at all costs, but all sorts of tactics, shenanigans are employed to do so within the rule boundaries. The stakes are just too immense to be chivalric and terribly, terribly gentlemanly nowadays. 😉(I once got sent off (sin- binned for 5 minutes to consider the error of my ways😂) at Trentbridge in a County Lacrosse match. The goal stood, the Goalie was ok after a few minutes, and we won the match....Reesult🥳)
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I love this photo..... this is Dave Mackay showing Billy Bremner the art of gentlemanly football in the 60’s....🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mind, I think Billy set Norman Hunter onto him, so it sort of became a ‘fair fight’😂
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BBC, ITV, sky or the radio?
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You have!😧
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Extra time!
Why did we sit so deep throughout the second half? Just invited the Italians to come at us and they deserved their equaliser.
Now, in the words of Sir Alf " you've won it once lads, go out and win it again".
Cue Grealish! 👍
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Unlike the Italians, who lets not forget were unbeaten in their last 32 games, it’s the first time some of those very young players will have been in this situation in an England shirt. Talking penalties is easy sat in an armchair, it’s something else in a boiling cauldron of a stadium, and with the World’s millions behind the TV waiting to pounce.
They were very good in the first half, in fact stunned the Italians into semi panic at one bit. But they are wiser, wily Masters of the Game, and soaked up most of what England then threw at them. They were as good in attack as they usually are defending, and all credit to them.
Personally, I think our England lads did us proud. They have been somewhere no other England player has managed to be in the last 55 years, that’s an achievement in itself. I loathe penalty shoot outs, would prefer a Golden Goal ending.
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The squad achieved something that no other England squad has for 55 years and they should be rightly proud of what they've achieved.
Italy deserved to win overall, whether in normal time, penalties which I personally loathe or golden goal (the problem with that being teams seem to clam up and are afraid to lose by default.)
Little point playing the "if only" game now, but if I might be allowed just a little critical remark, I struggled to understand how a manager who has got so much so right during the tournament got his final decision so wrong. Rashford and Sancho could have been brought on 10 or even 5 minutes earlier to at least get a feel for things before taking penalties. As it is I don't think either got a touch of the ball before those crucial spot kicks. And, good as he is, putting all that responsibility on 19 year old Saka for the final kick was dubious - why did Stirling not take a penalty?
Easy with hindsight I know and perhaps it's best to remember this tournament for a young group of players who bonded together magnificently, did England proud, and, hey, the next World Cup is only 18 months away and then football may well and truly be coming home! 👍
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