Euro '04

[Lance]

PS. Silvestre should have been sent off!!!

David James should have been sent off!

[Ex-URNU-Student]

Iv had that "Come on England" song stuck in my head all day..

Any one of 6 countries could win it, its very open, although the strongest teams are Italy and France definitely.

The problem with England is that while we have world-class players like Beckham and Gerrard, we dont have any real "Galacticos" of the likes of a Zidane or Figo, and thats what'll make the difference at the end of the day.

Having said that I think the French are beatable, they've had a very easy qualifying group rememeber and half their defence is made up of OAPs.

I was right, only Zidane could have converted those two set-pieces. We controlled the match for 89 minutes and then pissed it away. Also Rooney shouldnt have been subbed, he was our only real attacking threat. I saw Sven's press conference and Mr Ice-Cool looks like he doesnt give a shit IMO. We wont win anything with him. I say sack him asap.

Im gutted, absolutely gutted, when that penalty went in, I was on the floor by then.

The wrong side won last night, but thats football for you.

[Frank S.]

You obviously dont know what this ENGLISH game is all about...so dont comment.

Well brother-sir, when me and my droogs used to play football (what true Yanks call soccer here), back when I was growing up in France, I used to play goalie.
I remember very well the concrete field, made slick by hundreds of slimy oysters hacked out of juvenile throats. I remember kids running back and forth, occasionally stepping into wet mucus and scraping their knees, mingling bodily fluids in a most disgusting manner.

Nah, I preferred handball and volleyball, meself.

'Cause you see, I'm no true Yank: I'm French.

Don't underestimate Americans' knowledge of the game, though: wherever there live Mexicans, there's football. And the game is played at many a high school, here.

Having said that, "allons enfaaants de la Patrii-ie!!!"

[Chappy]

Est-ce que je peux avoir pour avoir un tour de votre vélo ?

[Chappy]

PS. Silvestre should have been sent off!!!

David James should have been sent off!

If Silvestre had been sent off, time would have took a different path, the back pass incident would never have happenend and everyone would be ignorant to that fact.

[Frank S.]

Est-ce que je peux avoir pour avoir un tour de votre vélo ?

Si tu pedales tres vite et longtemps, ouais. Mais le tour de France me casse les pions, pour etre poli....

[Pasha]

Christ on a bike, what ever happened to sportsmanship? James, methinks that you've tangled with the pluckiest Gaul since Vercingetorix. Bon jeu des Bleus!
Regards

Pasha

[Spannerman]

Mein gotten himmel ! It could have been the Krauts that beat us 2-1 now that REALLY would have been the end of the world, I mean after all we have beaten them only twice in wars, the Frogs many times, I guess they are getting one back eh?

It is only a game where 22 grown kids kick a bag of air around with an over inflated ego and even more so pay packets. I used to watch and support this game when it was just that, a game, where people used to enjoy playing their hearts out and never pull opponents shirts, no fisticuffs and the likes.

I watched this game last night from an objective point of view, both teams played well, it is just like a game of chess trying to figure out your opponents next move, the dagger was thrust into the heart in the 91st minute, by the 93rd minute the dagger was given a final twist. Wallah, game over! End of story, the French scored two goals, the English one goal, now let us do it the hard way, as we always seem to, have lots of pressure on us to win from the media boys and probably Switzerland will take an early lead, so what 'if it wasn't for us English, you'd be ruled by the Krauts' is what the English were singing/chanting the other night. Nations have a funny way of making us eat our own words, but as usual we will probably scrape through...........

[BenChug]

Spannerman quiet frankly, do one mate.
We don't need one of yer "back in the day" speeches, I seen the past mate and it ain't so pretty.

Football is almost religon to alot of people mate, I was sitting down at my local pub with my colours on display my face all painted up. That was a good game, but fawken 'ell mate I still went out and got into a ruck with a frenchman after that, granted he was a french canadian and my mate.

We love you England, we do.

Now I'm going to go and cry into my pillow mate.

[Chappy]

Mon Français n'est pas celui bon. Je dirai des mots aléatoires. Et les gens penseront que je suis bon.

De fromage de téléphone de vélo de ventilateur du football de pomme pomme deux bleue orange du rouge un svp.

[Chappy]

Spannerman quiet frankly, do one mate.
We don't need one of yer "back in the day" speeches, I seen the past mate and it ain't so pretty.

Football is almost religon to alot of people mate, I was sitting down at my local pub with my colours on display my face all painted up. That was a good game, but fawken 'ell mate I still went out and got into a ruck with a frenchman after that, granted he was a french canadian and my mate.

We love you England, we do.

Now I'm going to go and cry into my pillow mate.

BEN FOR ENGLAND!!!!

There will always be an England
There will always be an England
An England through and through
If England means as much too you as England means too me
Red and white is true
We can depend on you Ben
Shout it out loud
Stand and be proud

[Pasha]

Je suis très impressionné de l'afflux soudain des haut-parleurs Français! KlinkKlank, mon vieux, ton Français est aussi bon que le mien!

Pasha

[Frank S.]

As Eddie Izzard put it:
"la souris est sous la table, le chat est sur la chaise et le singe est sur la branche".

Ben, I think once pro-footballers's egos and salaries "ballooned" as Spanner pointed out, and more and more people proportionally felt about the game as they might about religion as you said, we were in trouble.
The past ain't so pretty, but the future even though unwritten, appears void of any hope, and that's different, maybe worse.

[Spannerman]

So sorry guys, I forgot that soccer, to some, is a relgion, do allow me to extract my head from my anus and I will let you get on with your religious beliefs.

[El Prez]

Just to lower the tone again......................
Arsenal reserves 2 - Engerland numpties 1


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