Euro 2008

[Annasfield]

Keef Wrote:

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> Damn you Torres, I was trying to pick between

> Torres & Villa for my top scorer at work, and my

> Liverpool loyalty made me go Torres, only for

> Villa to net a hatrick!!! :X

Oi!!! (6) you leave Fernando alone. Villa's first was made by Torres and I half expected him to have a shot and not pass the ball. (in a similar style to his goals at WHL and when Chelsea came to Anfield)

In the interview after the game Villa dedicated his 3rd to Torres for his assistance with the first 2. ;-)

[????]

A statement. My stag do involved Folkestone races and, comfortably( but sadly?) The Hermits Cave until the early hours.....although some pure MDMA meant that there was some mild delinquency

[Franki]

No no no mockney and ... money person (sorry, I have a european keyboard so no pound sign on it ;-)

you've got it all wrong, it's the Dutch all the way!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Franki - I sometimes use the pseudonym "quids" when am not near a grown-up keyboard

After last night, and if the Dutch can keep it up, I'll be upset if they don't win

History is on mockney and ????'s side tho

[monica]

Im italian and after last nights defeat i felt sick, however knowing the form of my belle azzuri, they will start playing good football, i must say and this is not sour grapes, but the first goal was offside. The other 2 goals were great and shame on my baby GiGi Bufont for wondering off for a espresso during the game.(he may as well for all the good he did)

Grosso and Del piero changed the tempo of the italian side and if that t**t Roberto Donadoni wakes up and smells the spaghetti al vongole he will realise on friday he will have to start with Del piero and Grosso, the great formation of the 2006 winning team need to be reunited again.

Now il go off for another sob in my latte machiato :-$

[citizenED]

So Franki's going Dutch?

[mockney piers]

Great start by my lads, people will start speaking about them being the strongest team in the tournament.

They will of course go out meekly in the quarter finals :(

Have people ever seen England and Spain in the same room together (at least since euro 96?)

[lozzyloz]

Nice one Monica. Only the Italian's can mention football and food in the same sentence! I think Italy will recover from their abysmal start.

[atila the gooner]

Spanish performance last night reminded of, yes you guessed it, Arsenal at their freeflowing best. Aside from my prefence for Turkey to do well, because of my parentage, I wish the Spaniards well, and hope that the Italians continue to play as dismally as they did against the Dutch who played them off the park. Why a nation continue to rely on a side choc a bloc with over the hill players, in the same way that AC Milan do, is beyond me.

[snorky]

no Italy. No ever. Cynical nasty team - Italy are usually supported by either :

a) Italians ( Ethnic or Natives )

b) people who know nothing about football and dont have Brazil to support ( "Pele - best player in history ever " despite their experience of Pele being a few clips on youtube and other people telling them he was the best ever. also used to dedcribe George best by same people )

I think France may be screwed here sadly - utterly typical and wasteful

It has to be Germany now for me

Or teh czechs

[Ted Max]

I think Italy and Holland will both come through from that group.

France = England if they'd qualified. Meaning the prevailing assumption that by just scraping through a poor group, they'll be fine once they get to the real thing, because they have so many world class players.

[snorky]

France do have the capability of playing beatiful football though, despite their arsyness - soemthing the INGERLAND are incapable of

[Keef]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Oi!!! (6) you leave Fernando alone. Villa's first was made by Torres and I half expected him to have a shot and not pass the ball. (in a similar style to his goals at WHL and when Chelsea came to Anfield)

>

> In the interview after the game Villa dedicated his 3rd to Torres for his assistance with the first 2. ;-)

Yeah, and this helps my fantasy score how??? ;-)

[Annasfield]

I'd like Italy to get to the finals (because they're my sweepstake team).

However ideally it will be LiverSpain or if I'm true to my roots Greece. Mind you, after last night's negative performance I'm not sure I could sit through another 90 mins.

[Annasfield]

Keef Wrote:

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> Yeah, and this helps my fantasy score how??? ;-)

Because you're adoration for El Nino should overshadow such minor things. You would have got an assist from him last night and there are also at least another two games to play. Plenty of time for his 4th hat-trick of the season. ;-)

[lozzyloz]

Well snorky, coming from somebody who's country doesn't have a football team, I guess I'd be bitter too.

a) Obviously

b) I'm part South American so that works for me in the World Cup

[atila the gooner]

Fabregas' through ball for Villa's third was sublime, mind you he does that sort of thing for us week in week out. I keep forgetting how young he is because it seems like he's been with us forever.

[mockney piers]

*I stand corrected, still find the moniker somewhat patronising though...sorry*

10 MF Cesc F?bregas Arsenal

5 DF Carles Puyol Barcelona

6 MF Andr?s Iniesta Barcelona

8 MF Xavi Barcelona

22 MF Rub?n de la Red Getafe

23 GK Jos? Manuel Reina Liverpool

18 DF ?lvaro Arbeloa Liverpool

14 MF Xabi Alonso Liverpool

9 FW Fernando Torres Liverpool

1 GK Iker Casillas Real Madrid

15 DF Sergio Ramos Real Madrid

3 DF Fernando Navarro Real Mallorca

17 FW Dani G?iza Real Mallorca

20 DF Juanito Real Betis

16 FW Sergio Garc?a Real Zaragoza

13 GK Andr?s Palop Sevilla

2 DF Ra?l Albiol Valencia

4 DF Carlos Marchena Valencia

21 MF David Silva Valencia

7 FW David Villa Valencia

19 MF Marcos Senna Villarreal

11 DF Joan Capdevila Villarreal

12 MF Santi Cazorla Villarreal

[Annasfield]

What about Alonso and Arbeloa?

[Keef]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> still find the moniker somewhat patronising though...sorry*

My bad :-$

Only the same as calling the France team of a few years ago Arsenal though, no offence intended.

[atila the gooner]

Come on TURKEY. I still don't think we'll go far in this tournament, but hey, make hay while the sun shines, or in this case pisses down with rain!!!

Edited due to rubbish spelling!!!!

[fish]

I think Turkey played quite well, last night. S... weather! Also, a bit ironic that there were three Turks in the Swiss team, including 'Yakin' who scored. A blinding goal, that(?)

[atila the gooner]

Equally strange that a Pole scored the goals against Poland.

[????]

A pole who had my money on him to be top scorer...just need to nobble the Spanish bloke now

[monica]

There is always one hey snorky, sour grapes i think and if i remembered rightly us italians Ethnic or native!!! what does that mean??? really snorky get a grip. As i was saying we Italians beat your lovely germany at the world cup, and we may have had a slow start but we always come through in the end.