Saint Garrett Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 (edited) To lighten the mood a bit, created this thread for all things Euro2020 (not just Saints @ Euro 2020) Let have some predictions... Winners: Runners Up: Scotland get knocked out at: Wales get knocked out at: England get knocked out at: Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Top Goalscorer: UEFA Best Player: UEFA Best Young Player: Edited 9 June, 2021 by Saint Garrett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 9 June, 2021 Author Share Posted 9 June, 2021 (edited) Here's mine: Winners: France Runners Up: Spain Scotland get knocked out at: Last 16 Wales get knocked out at: Group Stage England get knocked out at: Last 16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: Mbappe UEFA Best Young Player: Ferran Torres Edited 9 June, 2021 by Saint Garrett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Group Stages Wales get knocked out at: Group Stages England get knocked out at: Quarter finals at best Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Poland Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: Kante UEFA Best Young Player: Doku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Italy Scotland get knocked out at: Last 16 Wales get knocked out at: Group Stage England get knocked out at: Quarter Finals, after jammily getting through games in the most boring manner imaginable. We get embarrassingly spanked to ultimate winners France. Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Switzerland Top Goalscorer: Griezmann UEFA Best Player: De Bruyne UEFA Best Young Player: Ferran Torres (Spain) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKD Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Group Wales get knocked out at: Group England get knocked out at: R16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark or Turkey Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: Mbappe UEFA Best Young Player: Foden (if England progress to QF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baird of the land Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Belgium Scotland get knocked out at: Last 16 Wales get knocked out at: Last 16 England get knocked out at: Last 16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: Mbappe UEFA Best Young Player: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice29 Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: Portugal Runners Up: France Scotland get knocked out at: R16 Wales get knocked out at: R16 England get knocked out at: R16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: Kante UEFA Best Young Player: Nuno Mendes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWar Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: Belgium Runners Up: France Scotland get knocked out at: Group Stage Wales get knocked out at: Group Stage England get knocked out at: Semi Finals, easy run where everyone gets hyped and then we finally face a decent side in France and they batter us 4-1 or something Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: De Bruyne UEFA Best Young Player: Phil Foden (England) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vectraman Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Belgium Scotland get knocked out at: group Wales get knocked out at: group England get knocked out at: quarter finals Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark Top Goalscorer: Mbappe UEFA Best Player: De Bruyne UEFA Best Young Player: Foden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintrich Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: Italy Runners Up: Spain Scotland get knocked out at: R16 Wales get knocked out at: Group England get knocked out at: Quarter Final Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Memphis Depay UEFA Best Player: Lorenzo Insigne UEFA Best Young Player: Ferran Torres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_lambden Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Group Stage Wales get knocked out at: Last 16 England get knocked out at: Quarter Finals Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Griezmann UEFA Best Player: Kante UEFA Best Young Player: Ferran Torres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Corbyn Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Winners: England Runners Up: Germany Scotland get knocked out at: Groups Wales get knocked out at: Groups England get knocked out at: Don't Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Mount UEFA Best Player: Mount UEFA Best Young Player: Mount 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 There seem to be more than the usual number of really strong teams this year. France and Belgium stand out of course, but Italy look better than they've been in years, Germany are Germany, ditto Spain. Portugal and England have some world class players (and for all his faults we have a manager who finally takes penalty shoot out preparations seriously - even though he was crap at it himself ... or maybe because he was). On paper this should be a great tournament. It's going to take a very good, and/or very lucky, team to get past Kante and France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picard Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 3 hours ago, Dark Munster said: There seem to be more than the usual number of really strong teams this year. France and Belgium stand out of course, but Italy look better than they've been in years, Germany are Germany, ditto Spain. Portugal and England have some world class players (and for all his faults we have a manager who finally takes penalty shoot out preparations seriously - even though he was crap at it himself ... or maybe because he was). On paper this should be a great tournament. It's going to take a very good, and/or very lucky, team to get past Kante and France. And if England win their group they get to play France Germany or Portugal (whoever is second ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 10 June, 2021 Author Share Posted 10 June, 2021 Be interesting to see how England play it. The easiest route is probably to finish third in the group! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris cooper Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 16 hours ago, Saint_lambden said: Winners: France Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Group Stage Wales get knocked out at: Last 16 England get knocked out at: Quarter Finals Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Griezmann UEFA Best Player: Kante UEFA Best Young Player: Ferran Torres This .. apart from top goal scorer mbappe young player foden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Codger Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Winners: Italy Runners Up: France Scotland get knocked out at: Quarter Finals Wales get knocked out at: Quarter Finals England get knocked out at: Semi-Finals Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Poland Top Goalscorer: Lewandowski UEFA Best Player: Marco Verratti UEFA Best Young Player: Joao Felix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 12 hours ago, Picard said: And if England win their group they get to play France Germany or Portugal (whoever is second ) Its pretty rough however we finish our group Effectively we are odds on to meet France/Portugal I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igsey Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 15 hours ago, Dark Munster said: There seem to be more than the usual number of really strong teams this year. France and Belgium stand out of course, but Italy look better than they've been in years, Germany are Germany, ditto Spain. Portugal and England have some world class players (and for all his faults we have a manager who finally takes penalty shoot out preparations seriously - even though he was crap at it himself ... or maybe because he was). On paper this should be a great tournament. It's going to take a very good, and/or very lucky, team to get past Kante and France. Even a lot of the normally weaker teams seem to be stronger this time around - Turkey, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine - could all reasonably cause an upset against one of the big boys. Disagree with you on Germany though, I think they finish third in their group and will be lucky to get the best runners-up spots or whatever they're called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 5 minutes ago, igsey said: Even a lot of the normally weaker teams seem to be stronger this time around - Turkey, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine - could all reasonably cause an upset against one of the big boys. Disagree with you on Germany though, I think they finish third in their group and will be lucky to get the best runners-up spots or whatever they're called. Germany always grind it out, I agree its probably their worst squad since we battered them 5-1 but they still seem to always do well. Which is the opposite of us really, who always seem to underperform. Does seem a very strong tournament this year though, Portugal/France/Belgium are all very very strong and some of these smaller teams look good, I think you can add Denmark and Sweden to that list too, they have a solid chance to push on this year Spain and Italy I'm not convinced with though, we'll see 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 (edited) Winners: Belgium Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Group stage Wales get knocked out at: Round of 16 England get knocked out at: Round of 16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: De Bruyne UEFA Best Young Player: Torres Edited 11 June, 2021 by Wurzel Copy paste cock up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Round of 16 Wales get knocked out at: Round of 16 England get knocked out at: Round of 16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark Top Goalscorer: Lukaku UEFA Best Player: Mbappe UEFA Best Young Player: Havertz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 4 hours ago, Smirking_Saint said: Germany always grind it out, I agree its probably their worst squad since we battered them 5-1 but they still seem to always do well. Which is the opposite of us really, who always seem to underperform. Does seem a very strong tournament this year though, Portugal/France/Belgium are all very very strong and some of these smaller teams look good, I think you can add Denmark and Sweden to that list too, they have a solid chance to push on this year Spain and Italy I'm not convinced with though, we'll see They do find a way even with mediocre teams. The Germany we beat 5-1 went on to get to the final. And of course they never lose on penalties! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Dark Munster said: They do find a way even with mediocre teams. The Germany we beat 5-1 went on to get to the final. And of course they never lose on penalties! Euro 2000 we beat them and they finished bottom of the group. (We didn't do much better) Euros just like world cups can throw up surprises...... Edited 11 June, 2021 by CB Fry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Winners: France Runners Up: Italy Scotland get knocked out at: Group Wales get knocked out at: Group England get knocked out at: Last 16 Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Denmark Top Goalscorer: Insigne UEFA Best Player: Kante UEFA Best Young Player: Wijndal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 1 hour ago, CB Fry said: Euro 2000 we beat them and they finished bottom of the group. (We didn't do much better) Euros just like world cups can throw up surprises...... Yes, outsiders can win Euros (Greece and Denmark come to mind). With Germany we know they always qualify for a tournament they never lose on penalties (since their very first one where they learnt their lesson) they get to the semis or final an incredible number of times (even with mediocre teams), occasionally crashing out early with bad teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 On 10/06/2021 at 07:53, Jeremy Corbyn said: Winners: England Runners Up: Germany Scotland get knocked out at: Groups Wales get knocked out at: Groups England get knocked out at: Don't Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Mount UEFA Best Player: Mount UEFA Best Young Player: Mount Do we beat Germany on penalties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convict Colony Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Winners: Runners Up: Scotland get knocked out at: Round 16 Wales get knocked out at: Round 16 England get knocked out at: Qtrs Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Czech Rep Top Goalscorer: Sergy Gnabry UEFA Best Player: Sergy Gnabry UEFA Best Young Player: Sergy Gnabry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Nessun Dorma was good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 1 minute ago, CB Fry said: Nessun Dorma was good. That’s how you start a tournament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Watching those anthems just reminds me how sh*te and irrelevant ours is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic Saint Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 (edited) We do have a good national anthem, Land of Hope and Glory. If Scotland can drop God Save the Queen for Flower of Scotland, why can't England drop it too? It's the British national anthem, not the English one, and it is a boring dirge. I'll be interested to see how the 35-year-old Lille striker, Burak Yilmaz, plays. With our current budget restrictions, and being in limbo until we get a new owner, he might be good for us next season. I emphasize 'with our limited budget because obviously there are a lot of younger and better strikers there but they all would cost at least £40 mill. Edited 11 June, 2021 by Nordic Saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy the Kidd Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 29 minutes ago, Turkish said: That’s how you start a tournament It’s never been the same for me if Pavarotti isn’t singing it. Best World Cup for anthems IMO Italia 90 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic Saint Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 1 minute ago, Billy the Kidd said: It’s never been the same for me if Pavarotti isn’t singing it. Best World Cup for anthems IMO Italia 90 Pavarotti was the greatest and will never be surpassed. I was lucky enough to see him sing Nessun Dorma live twice - absolutely spine tingling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinSFC Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Lol I thought the opening was pretty boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 30 minutes ago, Nordic Saint said: We do have a good national anthem, Land of Hope and Glory. If Scotland can drop God Save the Queen for Flower of Scotland, why can't England drop it too? It's the British national anthem, not the English one, and it is a boring dirge. ‘I Vow to Thee My Country’ would get my vote. If Bertrand/Wolves was a penalty, so was that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 54 minutes ago, Lighthouse said: Watching those anthems just reminds me how sh*te and irrelevant ours is. Oh fuck off with this one again. Blah blah Jerusalem blah blah Land of Hope and Gloryblah blah La Marseillaise. Every tournament You don’t just change national anthem and we boom it out with pride. Miles better than most of the dirge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 11 minutes ago, Lighthouse said: ‘I Vow to Thee My Country’ would get my vote. If Bertrand/Wolves was a penalty, so was that. Maybe do a Xfactor style vote and get One Direction to sing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Italy look good, albeit against a a very poor performance from Turkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic Saint Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Very impressive performance from Italy. They look like they are going to be semi-finalists at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunglasses Ron Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Italy a joy to watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint1977 Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Real determination there from Italy to keep the clean sheet even at 3-0 with a minute to go. Winning mentality, forgotten what that’s like at SFC. Kept coming for more goals as well. Turkey were woeful but Italy a side to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Turkey got stuffed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verlaine1979 Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 1 hour ago, whelk said: Oh fuck off with this one again. Blah blah Jerusalem blah blah Land of Hope and Gloryblah blah La Marseillaise. Every tournament You don’t just change national anthem and we boom it out with pride. Miles better than most of the dirge What about those of us who don't give two sh*ts about the queen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Impressed with the movement of Immobile 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Corbyn Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 3 hours ago, Dark Munster said: Do we beat Germany on penalties? Certainly do: Mount, Kane, Rice, Mount, Foden with our pens. Ballack skied one for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris cooper Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Now that’s a last minute challenge from a defender who’s team is 3-0 up and would have died for the cause and clean sheet ! Hope our defenders we’re watching that ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igsey Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 Good first game, though I was disappointed with Turkey - I was expecting more after the build up they were given, their defending was good but passing was shocking, giving it away immediately after winning it back almost every time. The referee was first class. Wish we could have that in the Prem every week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 24 minutes ago, verlaine1979 said: What about those of us who don't give two sh*ts about the queen? Presumably that's the Welsh, Scots, and Northern Irish. None of them use the UK national anthem, despite the fact that none of them are separate nations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verlaine1979 Posted 11 June, 2021 Share Posted 11 June, 2021 2 minutes ago, badgerx16 said: Presumably that's the Welsh, Scots, and Northern Irish. None of them use the UK national anthem, despite the fact that none of them are separate nations. It's a bootlicker's anthem - they have the right idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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