July: The end of the Euros and.... friendlies?

[niko_cee]

Not that it mattered as it'd have denied us him missing his penalty [and there was no time left really anyway], but that Jorginho tackle probably was a red card. Strong orange at the very least. Studs up stamp into opponent's knee is a bit sketchy.

I didn't mind the ref, but thought he was a bit random with his giving of some stuff, but letting other stuff go. England definitely didn't get a handle on it and kept playing as if he would give any sort of contact as a foul which was far from the case, and was very annoying to watch.

[Waffdon]

It was nice seeing Harry Kane not getting all his usual fouls. Biggest snide cunt in football

[Kikó]

Forgot about that studs tackle. I'm surprised it didn't go to a var review.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I went properly ballistic at the Jorginho tackle not getting a red and my dad started going all 'It's only a game of football' on me, which made me call him a boomer twat, which in turn made him sulk through the penalties. It was a great evening.

[Manc]

The ref was bottling decisions all night under the guise of letting the game flow.

[Lofty]

There was a large group of lads in the pub I was in giving it some Ric Flair specials in the first half, annoying the covid police. Probably the highlight of the match after the early goal.

[Don]

It was nice seeing Harry Kane not getting all his usual fouls. Biggest snide cunt in football

This.

[Serj]

Ref was fine for most of the match, even though Jorginho could have seen red. Was it really studs "up", though? Grealish was on the floor and in my recollection Jorginho pulls through with his effort to kick the ball and then treads on Grealish. So more a stamp than a studs-up challenge. Still borderline and Jorginho got lucky.

Otherwise I liked Kuipers' calm approach. Didn't give serial divers like Kane, Sterling and some of the Italians (who are better at falling with flair) the time of day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Something else that got lost in the rest of it: have you ever seen anyone make as much of a meal out of an injury as Chiesa did when he went down in the second half? Costly for his team too at the time, as the lengthy delay while he cried and wailed and thrashed around killed all the momentum they had built up during the second half. If you're injured, just get off the pitch ffs.

[Adramelch]

The whole injury delay thing was pretty ridiculous this tournament. I understand it's been a really long stretch of games and whatnot, but it was still pretty silly.

[Waffdon]

The Italians had that newspaper print out (the one Lewis posted) on the plane with the Trophy resting on top of it

[Magic]

Something else that got lost in the rest of it: have you ever seen anyone make as much of a meal out of an injury as Chiesa did when he went down in the second half? Costly for his team too at the time, as the lengthy delay while he cried and wailed and thrashed around killed all the momentum they had built up during the second half. If you're injured, just get off the pitch ffs.

In fairness it was entirely him that was driving that so fuck it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just caught up with a colleague who went to bed during extra time, because it was a 'dull game'.

I'm telling you, heads have gone.

[Disco]

I went at the end, looked up the pens when I woke up this morning.

[7om]

Treason.

[Magic]

I went at the end, looked up the pens when I woke up this morning.

[Lewis]

Heads will have definitely gone if Southgate still gets a knighthood.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He isn't really is he?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Heads will have definitely gone if Southgate still gets a knighthood.

He got an OBE for a World Cup semi-final, so if he has another couple such tournaments, by my calculations he's on to be Duke of Norfolk.

[Vercetti]

I was through the looking glass today, reading comments about how Southgate chose the penalty takers in order to pursue his "woke agenda," and make it so that black lads had the chance to score the decisive penalty.

I bet he's pro-mask, too, the cunt.

[niko_cee]

I enjoyed reading that whilst our plebs were tearing Leicester Square apart or rushing inadequete security cordons, in Italy:

Mon, 12 July 2021, 1:29 pm
ROME (Reuters) - One person died and several were injured during sometimes wild celebrations in Italy after its soccer team's triumph over England in Sunday's Euro 2020 final.

A 22-year-old man died in a car crash in Caltagirone, in Sicily, as he was rushing to the town centre to join victory festivities, police said.

In the financial capital Milan, 15 people were hurt, three seriously, in rowdy, post-match partying. One of them lost three fingers when a firework exploded in his hand.

In a town near the southern city of Foggia, police believe a hitman took advantage of the chaos in the streets to settle a score, shooting dead his target in the crowd before escaping on a motorbike.

The victim's six-year-old niece was also wounded in the attack and was in a "very serious" condition, media said.

Mamma mia!

[Spikey M]

I was through the looking glass today, reading comments about how Southgate chose the penalty takers in order to pursue his "woke agenda," and make it so that black lads had the chance to score the decisive penalty.

I bet he's pro-mask, too, the cunt.

He hasn't actually said that, has he?

[Lewis]

He said his only regret was not switching Sancho and Rashford so that it got darker as it went along.

[7om]

Fucking hell, Lewis.

[Lewis]

It sums him up really doesn't it. No plan at all for it going beyond five kicks.

[Yevrah]

Just caught up with a colleague who went to bed during extra time, because it was a 'dull game'.

I'm telling you, heads have gone.

Honestly, if my head has gone (which it has) literally millions of others will have too.

[Lewis]

I know somebody who turned Germany vs Brazil off at 2-0 because they didn't want to watch an uncompetitive game.

[Reg]

I didn't see any of that game until it was 4-0 because I was playing tennis. I think it was Jim on here who said real life > football on TV. But sometimes football on TV > most things, especially when people still often reference the game years later. Poor me.

[Bernanke]

Chiesa only being 1.75 really doesn't sound right. I think it's something about his running style that is so much more like how a way taller player would run.

[Don]

I was through the looking glass today, reading comments about how Southgate chose the penalty takers in order to pursue his "woke agenda," and make it so that black lads had the chance to score the decisive penalty.

I bet he's pro-mask, too, the cunt.

One of the sauna lads was suggesting it was a conspiracy to paint them as the guilty party and invite the hate. Sauna lads

[Spikey M]

I completely misread that Pards post.

[Don]

Those Andrew Lawrence tweets are solid trolling. Wonder if he can get a justgiving up and invite the donations from the gammons for a gig.

[Spikey M]

He deserves to have his career cancelled for making such a poor effort of it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

7. England fans are a serious disgrace but this is only reflective of a society that has completely lost its mind. Any pretence of a social contract lies in ribbons, destroyed by the twin towers of New Labour gentrification and Tory destruction of social institutions over many decades. It appears that the England football team is the last institution able to command any sort of national unity. Even this seems to be a farce. One set of people, a set of people who sneered at Beckham and Rooney for years, claim to love 'this England team' (note: not England teams generally), because of them being 'diverse', apparently being nice people, and taking a knee. Another set of people boo the taking of a knee, are jacked up on cocaine, drunk out of their minds and going on social media to call people niggers. Among them there is a group who drink all day and want to break into Wembley without tickets. Why would such a thing ever occur in a country where they felt they had a stake in anything greater than their own day's intoxication? People go around thinking Brexit is the cause of this, but in fact Brexit is only a symptom: the groundwork for this has been laid down for decades and made up of many factors, some global, and some specific to us. I can only imagine we will fall deeper before we rise.

This expressed rather better by the best sports writer in the world: https://www.theguardian.com/football...-its-ugly-side

And running through all this has been a larger phenomenon, one that predates the pandemic: the wild unquenched craving for shared experience and community in a society that has essentially hunted it to extinction.

The increasing privatisation of public space, the assault on local government by successive Conservative administrations, economic polarisation, the spiteful politics of division: all this has steadily winnowed away the outlets for expressing who we are, in a place, together.

[niko_cee]

Don't do yourself down, he's basically just lifting your material off here and polishing it in the time he doesn't have to be selling gaskets to mardy Frenchmen.

[Yevrah]

Genuine lol at that Niko.

[Jimmy Floyd]

True, he wouldn't be saying this -

I look at England in 2021 and I do not see a hateful, animalistic place.

- if he'd ever tried giving a 7 day lead time for a set of piston rings.

[Lewis]

He does what he accuses society of doing (oh for the days of shared experiences in local government) and his point about Scotland is laughable.

[Spikey M]

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[Spikey M]

Atleast it's not a Pizza advert.

[Manc]

That could the end of Roy Keane as we know it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How do you even eat tacos without it collapsing everywhere? Never understood it.

[niko_cee]

Soft ones or don't overfill. The latter is almost impossible. Image obviously massively overfilled and would be all over the shop within seconds.

[Waffdon]

Yeah, tacos are utterly shit compared to the other Mexican food on offer.

[Pepe]

Hard tacos are not a thing.

[Manc]

Are you telling me Old El Paso isn't authentic?

[Pepe]

El Paso is in the US, tbf.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've never tried a hard taco.

Soft tacos are great though.

[Spikey M]

Pepe casually outing anything Mexican in America as a fraud.

[-james-]

Good tacos are absolute flavour bombs. 4 or so sparsely filled ones as a side dish ideally. They're nothing like the man vs food crap a lot of burritos and such tend to be.

Had some really good ones the other day with crispy oyster mushroom, pink pickled onion and a coriander-y sauce. Phenomenal.