Match Day Thread Euro 2016 Thread

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In fairness lads portugal have never had strikers and had to go with ronaldo and nani up top.

I think once they scraped out of group they did well.

I think france bottled it myself. They ran out of ideas very early on and were basically lackung shape and patience. They disnt make a single chance i think after portugal scored.

Portugal imo deserved it on the whole oever the 120mins.
 
Tobes said:
Football is primarily about winning games. I don't think it's in any way a travesty that Portugal won that competition.

They did what they needed to do and came out on top. Tactically and defensively they were excellent throughout. If other teams couldn't derail them then that's not a tragedy for the game, it's just football!

If England had have won by winning via the same route as Portugal did, there'd not be many glum faces this morning bemoaning the style by which they achieved it.
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Bottom line is that France had plenty of opportunities to beat them (and Germany were better than France, but didn't beat them). Boo hoo - them's the rules. If Portugal's plan was based around other teams not taking their chances then it worked. I was more than happy to see Wales do the same, and had they beaten Portugal and then squeezed past France in the final I would have been ecstatic.

****e tournament, dull winners - but that's football.
 
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donga blokhin said:
Bottom line is that France had plenty of opportunities to beat them (and Germany were better than France, but didn't beat them). Boo hoo - them's the rules. If Portugal's plan was based around other teams not taking their chances then it worked. I was more than happy to see Wales do the same, and had they beaten Portugal and then squeezed past France in the final I would have been ecstatic.

****e tournament, dull winners - but that's football.
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Same here mate.

A friend of mine was over in Portugal yesterday, he said it was immense, the celebrations were universal.

He didn't mention any purists bemoaning the fact that they weren't Brazil '70 like.
 
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So Portugal win it then eh. Bout what that tournament deserves, been totally dire and uninteresting really apart from Wales' very good run

I'm sure absolutely zero Portuguese really give a damn how they won it, funny they do it with that team rather than the one(s) they had years ago that were more highly touted

Some plumber or something went past in his white van today, two Welsh flags still proudly flying off the roof of the van like two big dragon fingers up at the whole of England. All the english ones got taken down or fell down and got destroyed to **** in the road and the rain ages ago
 
Deathmetaldruid said:
So Portugal win it then eh. Bout what that tournament deserves, been totally dire and uninteresting really apart from Wales' very good run

I'm sure absolutely zero Portuguese really give a damn how they won it, funny they do it with that team rather than the one(s) they had years ago that were more highly touted

Some plumber or something went past in his white van today, two Welsh flags still proudly flying off the roof of the van like two big dragon fingers up at the whole of England. All the english ones got taken down or fell down and got destroyed to **** in the road and the rain ages ago
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That would be the Brexiteers realising what a monumental ****ing mistake they made <ok>
 
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Deathmetaldruid said:
Some plumber or something went past in his white van today, two Welsh flags still proudly flying off the roof of the van like two big dragon fingers up at the whole of England. All the english ones got taken down or fell down and got destroyed to **** in the road and the rain ages ago
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Not like in the past when there was England flags in most peoples front window when they were in a major tournament, probably because most people have cottoned on to England being a global football power as being the myth it is.
 
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Page_Moss_Kopite said:
Not like in the past when there was England flags in most peoples front window when they were in a major tournament, probably because most people have cottoned on to England being a global football power as being the myth it is.
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Its a shame that myth or no the pride has been sucked totally out of it by the media. If we are not in sf youd be the worst in the world to fly a flag and prob a racist etc etc.

The welsh have found pride. The scots love any excuse. The english are looked down on for doing it.
 
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