Football forever

[soulfinger]

Don't get me started about that posing tosser..

His job, in his head, is to beat three men in midfield and then mis-hit his pass. He does that, he's happy.

[adamsmitt]

Have you seen game Ukraine vs Germany? The score was 1:2 and on some point I thought that Ukraine will win.

[old barney greyheron]

Don't get me started about that posing tosser..

His job, in his head, is to beat three men in midfield and then mis-hit his pass. He does that, he's happy.

He learnt his trade at Old Trafford and then at Juventus..yet now, to my eyes, he looks out of his depth..in his own eyes though, he's a world class player.

[soulfinger]

Well, three months is a long time in football.

I wish we'd had this Pogba for the last five years. And Marcus must be up for a Nobel Prize or something, taking time off from being the main opposition to the Tories to shred Liverpool. What a man!

[firehazard]

Well, three months is a long time in football.

I wish we'd had this Pogba for the last five years. And Marcus must be up for a Nobel Prize or something, taking time off from being the main opposition to the Tories to shred Liverpool. What a man!

Your boy Rashford done good. Very good.

[firehazard]

Have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of the European Super League or whatever it's called. Entertaining, free to view, didn't go on too long and wasn't ruined by VAR.

[soulfinger]

Have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of the European Super League or whatever it's called. Entertaining, free to view, didn't go on too long and wasn't ruined by VAR.

Terrific, wasn't it! It's certainly reinvigorated the ownership debate at OT. Glazers out is suddenly very popular again.

[left]

Soo…

[soulfinger]

Soo…

Went well on the pitch up until the third minute of the final. Downhill all the way after that.

Precipitous downhill all the way off the field. Prime Minister and his cronies refusing to back the players against the boo boys when they took the knee. Right wing political grifters calling the players woke babies and worse on twitter. Same politicians and twatters bandwagon jumping as the team progressed towards the final, having their photo taken in team shirts, waving flags, furiously backtracking on what they had previously said. Johnson and Pritler particularly obnoxious in this regard.

Ingerland "fans" booing the opposing teams' national anthems. Neanderthal Ingerlanders dancing naked, rioting, sticking lit flares up their arses, storming the stadium entrance, central London looking like a cross between a Hogarth painting and Dante's Inferno. To be fair, the North was a bit more civilised.

Post match racist vilification of the three lads who missed pens. Tweets referring to them as N******s, right wing "comedian" tweeting "well the white players scored", a tory member of parliament saying Marcus Rashford should have been practicing penalties not embarrassing the government into providing food for hungry children and then apologising for getting caught, rather than for thinking it.

Ultimately, proud of the players, particularly of Shaw, Maguire, Rashford and Sancho for tribal reasons. Sterling and Henderson for being good guys irrespective of my tribal bias. Everyone else in the squad for being pretty damn good. Southgate for being a decent man when we have a national shortage.

Ashamed that people from other countries will thing the Ingerland lot are representative of the rest of us. They really are not.

Apart from that, it went really well... though I was never more proud of my inherited Irishness and my passport with a harp on it.

[firehazard]

Went well on the pitch up until the third minute of the final. Downhill all the way after that.

Precipitous downhill all the way off the field. Prime Minister and his cronies refusing to back the players against the boo boys when they took the knee. Right wing political grifters calling the players woke babies and worse on twitter. Same politicians and twatters bandwagon jumping as the team progressed towards the final, having their photo taken in team shirts, waving flags, furiously backtracking on what they had previously said. Johnson and Pritler particularly obnoxious in this regard.

Ingerland "fans" booing the opposing teams' national anthems. Neanderthal Ingerlanders dancing naked, rioting, sticking lit flares up their arses, storming the stadium entrance, central London looking like a cross between a Hogarth painting and Dante's Inferno. To be fair, the North was a bit more civilised.

Post match racist vilification of the three lads who missed pens. Tweets referring to them as N******s, right wing "comedian" tweeting "well the white players scored", a tory member of parliament saying Marcus Rashford should have been practicing penalties not embarrassing the government into providing food for hungry children and then apologising for getting caught, rather than for thinking it.

Ultimately, proud of the players, particularly of Shaw, Maguire, Rashford and Sancho for tribal reasons. Sterling and Henderson for being good guys irrespective of my tribal bias. Everyone else in the squad for being pretty damn good. Southgate for being a decent man when we have a national shortage.

Ashamed that people from other countries will thing the Ingerland lot are representative of the rest of us. They really are not.

Apart from that, it went really well... though I was never more proud of my inherited Irishness and my passport with a harp on it.

Well said, sf. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Middle daughter had to get to work early the Monday morning, she'd been home here for the weekend, drove back to her apartment (overlooking the waterfront in an East Anglian port town) just in time for kick-off, through streets littered with eejits in Ingerland shirts fighting anyone who looked, erm, different. And spent some time horrifiedly watching the same scenario from her balcony, till she began to feel threatened herself. Proud of the players, and the manager, but not of the Ingerland fans - though a lot of them were let off the leash by the Johnson government's dog-whistling. And just hope the events of the last weekend mean this country won't get to host another tournament anytime soon.

[soulfinger]

Well said, sf. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Middle daughter had to get to work early the Monday morning, she'd been home here for the weekend, drove back to her apartment (overlooking the waterfront in an East Anglian port town) just in time for kick-off, through streets littered with eejits in Ingerland shirts fighting anyone who looked, erm, different. And spent some time horrifiedly watching the same scenario from her balcony, till she began to feel threatened herself. Proud of the players, and the manager, but not of the Ingerland fans - though a lot of them were let off the leash by the Johnson government's dog-whistling. And just hope the events of the last weekend mean this country won't get to host another tournament anytime soon.

Lots of good coming out of it: members of Marcus Rashford's shadow cabinet are piling in. Tyrone Mings absolutely skewering Pritler. Best move by an England defender since Nobby was in his prime! The redecoration of the Muriel of Marcus by members of the local community after the daubing with racist graffiti has been a thing of great joy.

[Fr. McGreer]

Do you guys ever watch Jonathan Pie? If not, you should.......

https://youtu.be/EI5nw1kYwdo

[soulfinger]

Do you guys ever watch Jonathan Pie? If not, you should.......

https://youtu.be/EI5nw1kYwdo

Yes. He's excellent.

After the smoke and noise of the Euros, I'm back to watching the glazers squeeze the life out of Utd. So depressing!

[firehazard]

Do you guys ever watch Jonathan Pie? If not, you should.......

https://youtu.be/EI5nw1kYwdo

Yes. He's excellent.

After the smoke and noise of the Euros, I'm back to watching the glazers squeeze the life out of Utd. So depressing!

Jonathan Pie is great.

Commiserations, sf. It is indeed.

[soulfinger]

Ohoh! Serious entertainment at OT today. We got that really good Pogba chap. Great to be back in a huge, noisy crowd.