Match Day Thread Euro 2016 Thread

There were some around, in windows, off houses and on cars, but definitely a lot less than I can remember even at the world cup a couple of years ago, that shoddy tournament people realised the situation I think, if not before. Possibly some were also hung because of the referendum

 

The racist right wing highjacked the England cross of St George as we all know, I wish they'd have highjacked that boring ****ing homage to someone living in a timewarp bubble, the Scots and the Welsh have their own patriotic anthems and the NI loyalist loyalty to the crown means they're happy to hope god saves her but England boringly cling on to the UK national anthem when there's obviously others out there that are more suitable for England.

 

Pauleta was pretty good to be fair.

 

It's all about the money these days, just so he can get his work permit

 

Jerusalem. Embarrassed to hear ours at the same time as the French and Italian ones (even the Russian and German ones). Ours is ****ing cack. Written by a French woman in the court of Louis IVX, I believe.

 

I vow to thee my country or Land of hope and glory.
Jerusalem would also be good.

 

Either that or **** the lyrics just play the Damb busters theme with full orchestra

 

I'd like the theme from Shaft. Or It's All Too Much by The Beatles. Or the theme music from Roobarb and Custard.

 

Didn't work for us, like

 

We're **** though!

 

To be fair, the last 2 Euro's were **** as well. I can't really remember them except Spain winning. 2004 and before were good.

 

Sounds strange but that's probably down to global improvement (with the current trend of conservative football), so even alot of the smaller nations have improved to a level that means they can compete with the traditional football nations. Albania or Iceland for example even a few years ago had no chance of beating someone like France or Italy, but today because the standards of junior training in those countries have improved it means the talented youngsters move abroad to big leagues therefore making the national team stronger.
So the gap closes and the bigger nations become worried about upsets and take a more conservative approach to games, means there is going to be less 5,6 or 7- nils.

The games between the bigger nations have always tended to be tight and tense (at least since the 80s) because there is often very little between the two teams.

 

This. The **** nations have better footballing knowledge meaning they setup to nullify the opposition. Can't blame them, it's their best chance of getting a result but makes it dull as **** for spectators.

 

The format too is ****.

The move to 3 points for a win was to promote positive football.

In the Euros it's almost impossible to get knocked out unless you lose multiple games. Actually winning a game is worthless. The Euros need to move to a system of 4 or more points for a win.

 

Either go back to 16 teams or expand to 32.

Or, if they want to stick to 24, go straight to the quarter finals after group stages. Group winners and best runners up.

**** the "best third place" thing off.

 

Euro 2008 was great. 2012 was OK but not amazing.

 

Tony Cascareno reckons we need to make the pitch bigger. Apparently all nations, but particularly the lesser footballing nations, are producing athletes who can cover the pitch and hunt in packs for 120 minutes. He believes by increasing pitch sizes, the game will depend on the more technical, and attacking, side of the game.

 

That would be expensive, just think how many pitches there are in the world. Far cheaper to say it's a ten man game instead.

 

Makes sense, would get some new formations too