Euro 28 in UK and Ireland. Euro 32 in Italy and, erm, Turkey.
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Euro 28 in UK and Ireland. Euro 32 in Italy and, erm, Turkey.
The joint bid means that five nations – England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales – will host the event, with Uefa reserving two “safety net” berths for host teams that do not qualify on merit. If more than two sides fall short, only the two with the best record will get a place – so it is possible for host nations to miss out.
Giggles cheering on Top Ireland will be fun.
Worked out alright though. He filled his pockets and got Chelsea a ridiculous amount of money with all the ads ons from CL winsOriginally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Best player to watch bar none. The fact he barely trained or tried and it was all natural ability made him better.
Why would I ever do a thing like that? I'd rather us not qualify see England win the whole thing than want that lot to win any game ever.
Fair enough.
Will the host nations have their group games at home? I'm not sure a bunch of NI fans going to Casement Park (if it even gets built) in West Belfast is gonna go that well.
In all reality there's not a chance Casement actually gets done, tournament or not. It won't be allowed happen.
The BBC have a potted history for anyone who, like me, falls into this category:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/67056689Outside of the island of Ireland, some may wonder what the fuss is all about?
Gerry Adams country. I’m sure there’ll be no bother whatsoever.
I quite like Jonanthan Liew's Bellingham/Southgate/England thinkpiece. I don't know that there's anything particularly profound in there, but it has some amusing one-liners.
At which point, with sighs, Bellingham must now peel off his superhero suit, slip on a blue training top and start playing sideways passes to Harry Maguire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67062742
Lad on the right wondering where he is.
Lol at Old Trafford getting binned.
In such a small country you wonder why they don't use a lot more stadiums.
And yeah, Bramley Moore Dock and the Etihad, real home of football stuff.
All about the cheese rooms.
It all makes sense until you see they're using Hampden.
Such a dreadful stadium. Cost the SFA a fortune though so we’re stuck with it for good.
Football fans can't be trusted, as you well know.
They should have got funky with the home nation scheduling. Giggles' mob could have been based at Celtic Park, Scotland at the GAA place, and special guests The United States Mens National Team could play their games in Dublin. Or France could if we aren;t doing that, England were always paranoid about them invading through Ireland, per that union programme, which I didn't really get seeing as Ireland is a lot further away from France than England is.
Why have Birmingham City, after a decent start to the season by their abhorrent standards, sacked their manager and appointed Wayne Rooney? Is it for clicks? Are they hoping for the Netflix cameras to roll in? Sport is almost a parody of itself now.
Tom Brady wanted someone in charge that he’s heard of
Christ, of course, Americans taking over. The world's most clueless morons.
Are you doubting the tactical acumen of Wazza, a man daft enough to be abducted by some of Barrow's cheapest slags on a night out?
I want to frame this.
£500 and you can have the NFT.
Reckon spain might give us about 5 or 6 here.
If the goalkeeper gets the ball, he can take everything else with him and Unai Simon has done just that.
I think Robertson was offside anyway but yeah, he literally smashes into Robertson whilst getting hands on it before dropping the ball and breaking Robertson’s arm by the looks of it
Oh yeah, I forgot it's fine to kill outfield players when they're in an offside position, silly me.
Clearly not endangering an opponent.
It's almost never worth challenging the goalkeeper 50-50. Either you get a free kick unfairly given against you, or you get Battiston'd.
Bryan Zaragoza.
Hope he's half as good a Jorge Piña.
Hopefully it's just the arm and nothing shoulder related.
Greatest player in the fucking world.oh my days
Fuck off
This ref is an utter joke. Assumed it was ruled out for offside but was given for a foul. Utterly mental. Ball was already in the net before he was slightly touched
Has robbo actually broken his arm?
I'm a twit
Didn't take long for this circle to be completed.
God, we’re utterly brutal to watch.
Oh well. Still only need a point against Georgia or Norway to qualify assuming Spain lose to Norway on Sunday. Hopefully the former get at least a draw and confirm us going through so we don’t bottle it in Georgia 15 years later once again
Put it this way, I've been looking to see who can back up Kostas for when he plays every game for the next month or two.
He's been underwhelming for some time now. Robertson that is.
Is this game today some sort of 20th anniversary of the 1-3 horror? The one England match I've ever attended and one of the real low points in the history of English sport.
Kendry Paez does it again. Not sure I should be drooling over a 16 year old but we’ll be doing it anyway
Baz does it all the time.
The team to bring the shitshow curtain down. The monkeyman's lot win this easily.
Gallagher & Henderson in the double pivot. Unreal.
Yeah I thought initially that line-up at least had some different names in then I realised the formation we were gonna be rocking.
Listen, Australia are a dangerous team. Snakes, spiders, you name it. Jellyfish. You can't be too careful.
It's so utterly depressing.
Oh God love you, you fucks. As if you won't qualify.
What's the crack formation-wise? 4-5-1 as the beeb have it? Which of the three centre-halves is going to play left-back? Colwill? Is GSB doubling down on Smallpockets desire to ruin him or are we going for some sort of funky 5-4-1 wingback nightmare?
The circle of shite could be completed from 2003, but Australia are effectively a pub side aren't they? So we'll probably coast past them.
Could be a real eye-bleeder though, so there's that to look forward to.
They're also bound to have somebody On Dayboo, the most dangerous sort of sporting Australian.
The drop off in quality between the 2003 side and this Australian one must be massive. Who were they fielding back then? Kewell, Viduka, Emerton, some sort of decent 'keeper, Craig Moore, Cahill. Now what, midget Mat Ryan with only one 't' and that guy I thought was a jock but isn't at centre-half?
Most of the Qatar World Cup has been erased from my memory, but didn't Australia unexpectedly reach the knockouts? Or did they just score against France or something.
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