It was interesting though that once the Russian trouble makers were sorted out, and there wasn't the antagonism in Marseille by the local trouble makers, the problems seemed to diminish.
Someone asked earlier in the thread about the cost of the entire Iceland team, I make it a combined transfer value of £16.4m, of which almost half is Gylfi Sigurdsson... Halldórsson - Plays for NEC (Holland), but spent last season on loan at FK Bodø/Glimt (Norway) - Free Saevarsson - Hammarby (Sweden) - Free Arnason - Malmo (signed on a free from Rotherham) Sigurdsson - FC Krasnodar (Russia) - £3m Skúlason - OB (Denmark) - Free Berg Gudmundsson - Charlton - Free Gunnarsson - Cardiff City - Free Sigurdsson - - Swansea City - £7.5m Bjarnason - FC Basel (Switzerland)- £1.5m Sigthorsson - FC Nantes (France) - £3m Bödvarsson - FC Kaiserslautern (Germany) Bjarnasonat - AFG (Denmark) - Free Traustasonat - Rapid Vienna (Austria) - £1.4m (they bought him this week)
When Bobby Charlton was asked how he thought the 1966 England squad would have done against Iceland, he replied "We'd have won 1-0". Why only 1-0? "Well Bobby Moore's dead and the rest of us are in our seventies now"
PL Referee Martin Atkinson and his team have joined England in going home. However, Mark Clattenburg and his team have been kept on in France.
An unbelievable 99.8% of Icelandic TV viewers watched their side beat England. Only 650 people didn't tune in!
Someone tried to hand the returning England players stuffed donkeys out of an Iceland bag... please log in to view this image
Not sure if it's common knowledge here or not, but the supermarket apparently ended up getting behind the Iceland team. I don't think it's a joke. http://www.kamcity.com/namnews/uk-and-ireland/supermarkets/iceland-to-sponsor-iceland-during-euros/
I'm guessing he's Welsh judging by the address on the truck, and to be fair they have to grab their moment to take the piss as they're so rarely available.
Hermann Hreiðarsson was asked last night why 650 didn't watch and he said they were probably drunk and fell asleep
that is incredible I also read a stat somewhere that reckoned if you were an Icelandic male aged between 20 and 35 then it was only a 2000/1 shot that you would actually be in the euro squad!
