May Football: Euro 96, I guess

[Kikó]

May 15 Bulgaria vs Romania 3pm ITV Hub
May 15 Switzerland vs Netherlands 7pm ITV Hub

Bulgaria will want to build on their first round point v Spain in this game with the Romanians. Romania lost 1-0 v the French first time up so it's on them to get a win. Another chance to see Stoichkov for the Bulgarians and Hagi for the Romanians.

Switzerland will be happy with the draw with England and Jorge's men will be looking to avoid the defeat v Netherlands to go into their final game v Scotland with a chance to progress. Holland looked brilliant first time out so let's hope they can break down the boring Swiss. Bergkamp, Seedorf, Davids, de Boer, Winter all on display.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I don't think he was that great, just one time he was randomly brilliant.

[mo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52679614

League Two clubs agree to end the season, using PPG to decide final standings. Looks like this will mean Swindon go up as Champions

[Manc]

Bulgaria v Romania is a must.

[Baz]

Bulgaria v Romania is a must.

Why can’t I find it on ITV Hub?

Has Kiko mixed the times up?

[Kikó]

The website I have been copying it from had it in that order. It's the Swiss v Netherlands game.

I've just kicked off.

[Queenslander]

Be quite friendly of the English teams to start buying up Australian clubs?

[Kikó]

Amazing performance from Bergkamp, destroyed the Swiss. Jordi did his bit as well.Impressive from the Dutch though - Chapuisat couldn't make an impact. 2-0.

[Kikó]

Early goal from Stoichkov was enough to allow Bulgaria to beat the Romanians. Bit of a shitty game in all honesty.

[Shindig]

That detailed an apparent breach of the PL checks by Staveley & Co. in regard to the BeoutQ streaming service, with the PL obligated to investigate a claimed breach of their rule that prospective club owners must not provide "false, misleading or inaccurate information."

Juicy. They didn't do all this shit for City but then their owners never killed anyone. That we know of.

EDIT: Newcastle's youtube channel is showing Sir Bobby's first home game from 3pm.

[Manc]

Romania can consider themselves v unlucky imo. In a game that pitted Hagi v Stoichkov, Balakov came out on top.

Keegan on commentary was a nice surprise.

[Kikó]

He seems to be doing all the games at St James' Park.

May 16 Portugal vs Turkey
May 16 Czech Republic vs Italy

Both Portugal and Turkey need the win so fingers crossed it will open up a little bit. The Turks were good value in the first game but a little naive.

Looking forward to seeing the Italian strike force again but they will have to defend better v Nedved, Poborsky and Berger.

[Shindig]

Treating Euro 96 like it's a current event is winding me up, Kiko. Keep it up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dortmund/Schalke kicking off in 30 minutes.

[Giggles]

Dortmund/Schalke kicking off in 30 minutes.

Who has the rights to that?

[Jimmy Floyd]

British Telecom.

[Kikó]

Free to air if you can get onto a German channel.

[Kikó]

Link is up https://www.itv.com/hub/euro-96-relived/7a0288a0012

[Mike]

Dortmund/Schalke kicking off in 30 minutes.

RB Leipzig v Freiburg and Hoffenheim v Hertha Berlin too. BT2&3

[Kikó]

Italy
Peruzzi
Mussi Costacurta Apolloni Maldini
Donadoni Albertini Baggio Fusee
Chiesa Ravenelli

Czech Republic
Kouba
Kadlec
Kayak. Nedved. Suchoparek
Poborski. Berger Bejbl. Nemec
Kuka Hornak

Nedved in the quarter back role

[Kikó]

And of course nedved scores. Terrible line from Italy.

[Giggles]

Treating Euro 96 like it's a current event is winding me up, Kiko. Keep it up.

It’s the squarest thing he’s ever done but I like it.

[Kikó]

Someone's definitely hacked your account.

[Pleb]

Football's back

[Kikó]

Aye.

Equaliser from Chiesa - really well worked Italy move. Two goals in 18 minutes. Finally some goals!

[Kikó]

Ridiculous decision making from Apolloni. Flies into a tackle already booked and mistimes it. What is he thinking? 60 minutes for the Czechs to take advantage.

[Kikó]

Absolutely brilliant from the Czechs again. Cracking cross and a volley from the late arriving Bejbl. Easily the best game of the euros so far!

[Shindig]

Time to watch Kevin Pressman's poor life choices.

[Kikó]

Dino Baggio hooked first half for Carbone. Nothing going right for Sacchi.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Erling Haaland is so damn good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Schubert though, is crap.

[John Arne]

Erling Haaland is so damn good.

Hakimi, too. Shame he belongs to Real Madrid.

[Kikó]

Italy have been brilliant second half. Bejbl kicking out to Albertini on the floor but the ref doesn't care for it. Plenty to go in the second half.

[Bob Sacamano]

That Snoop Dogg Just Eat advert might be the worst thing I've seen.

[Shindig]

Shearer's dragging a performance out of this side. It's weird how there's no trace of the old boys Dalglish signed. Harper's had a couple of wobbles and Dyer's lively.

[Kikó]

Zola on for Chiesa. Like for like rather than load the forward line. 12 to go.

End to end game credit to both.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Schalke are offering nothing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dortmund have been great though.

Lovely finish by Guerrero.

[Kikó]

Big win for the Czechs. Casaraghi had an unbelievable chance in the last minute after wonderful work from Zola. Amazing miss.

Peruzzi pulled off 3-4 brilliant saves late on to keep it 2-1 before that. Young forward Smicer coming on for Czech looked bright. Nedved was just delightful throughout.

Italy need a result v Germany now in the final group game. Can't see anyone dropping points against Russia.

[Shindig]

4-0 up at half time so my memory of this game is bollocks. Sheff Wed looked dangerous to start with but Benito Carbone is no Andy Booth. Alexandersson is the only person for Wednesday with any guile. In contrast, we've been ruthless. Helps when the opposition are giving you acres of space out wide. Dyer and Solano have been exploiting that. And Shearer who spends so much time out wide to hold the ball up or send crosses in. Ketsbaia looks shite.

[Ian]

Oh was Italy / Czechs the one they were showing early?

Schedule I had said it was this evening. Fuck's sake. Should probably have done something clever like use the one on ITV's website.

[Ian]

Also are they not showing full games or am I just a dimwit and can't find it on the Hub?

[Shindig]

Dyer injury count: 2.

[Ian]

Also are they not showing full games or am I just a dimwit and can't find it on the Hub?

Found it and I see they're just immediately putting them up in full which makes more sense now. And apparently even the page on their website I was looking at is lying about the timings which is ace.

[Shindig]

Jamie McClen's on. Wow.

[Kikó]

Found it and I see they're just immediately putting them up in full which makes more sense now. And apparently even the page on their website I was looking at is lying about the timings which is ace.

The goal website? Yeah I was using that and realised it's duff but it at least tells you what games are on that day.

[Ian]

The goal website? Yeah I was using that and realised it's duff but it at least tells you what games are on that day.

I think it might've been FourFourTwo.

I also found another site that was wrong but in an entirely different way which was impressive.

Was Italy / Czechs a good game? Might still watch it ahead of THE BIG ONE tomorrow.

[Kikó]

Yeah very good. Worth the watch.

[Ian]

I'm halfway through and it's been good fun.

90s football.

[Kikó]

Okay time for the Turks v Portugal.

Portugal seem to be lining up 4-1-2-1-2. Sa Pinto dropping into midfield after starting last game up front with Joao Pinto. Rui Costa and Figo will want to improve on last time out

Fatih Terim will hope Suker has his scoring boots on this time out and maybe Tugay can unlock the defence.