The Euro2020 Thread

[northam soul]

Just now, trousers said:

 

Ha ha too slow

[Lord Duckhunter]

Lol 

[Lighthouse]

Mental but I doubt the Germans are done yet.

[trousers]

F*** me... Crazy 10 minutes

[stknowle]

I'm starting to think I want us to play Germany next.

[Antrimsaint]

7 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

If it was about keeping the clubs happy, he’d do that by not picking their players. 
 

 

Absolute pony

[whelk]

I am writing off the Germans

[Lighthouse]

Germany it is then.

[CB Fry]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

I am writing off the Germans

Look what you've done.

[trousers]

[stknowle]

Just now, Lighthouse said:

Germany it is then.

They really don't look that good. We'll still lose though.

[whelk]

1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

Look what you've done.

I never should have done it

[Dark Munster]

32 minutes ago, trousers said:

We're gonna end up with Germany, aren't we? #inevitable

Of course!

[Lord Duckhunter]

15 minutes ago, stknowle said:

I'm starting to think I want us to play Germany next.

Yeh, Sterling will murder Hummels, and Rudiger is as thick as shite. They’re poor at the back 

Edited 23 June, 2021 by Lord Duckhunter

[Dark Munster]

If Germany score a winner (highly possible) we'll get bloody France.

Unless Portugal also get a winner. 🤔

[JustinSFC]

I effing hate it when footballer's look at themselves on the screen.

Ronaldo does it constantly.

[Baird of the land]

Can't belief France didn't get a penalty at the end, for that studs on the back of the leg challenge.

Hope that ref gets sent home after some of his questionable choices.

[whelk]

Easy route to final now

[Lord Duckhunter]

Fuck me, I fancy our side of the draw. Avoided Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal. If we can beat Germany it opens right up, Holland aren’t great. 

[Baird of the land]

England got nice side of draw. Shame they will lose to Germany.

Edited 23 June, 2021 by Baird of the land

[Sheaf Saint]

2 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

Can't belief France didn't get a penalty at the end, for that studs on the back of the leg challenge.

Hope that ref gets sent home after some of his questionable choices.

He'll probably get given our game against Germany and we'll get knocked out thanks to some controversial decision.

[Jimmy_D]

Reckon German fans will be as pessimistic as England fans after that for our match!

Our side of the draw looks very very open after that game though.

[Saint Garrett]

Funny how everyone has been saying we get the toughest route to the final if we won the group. If we can get past Germany, it’ll at best be Holland 

[CB Fry]

Germany feel more beatable than in previous years. If we can do them it really opens up.

You'd like to think the winner of our match is one of the semi-finalists.

[Jimmy_D]

2 minutes ago, Saint Garrett said:

Funny how everyone has been saying we get the toughest route to the final if we won the group. If we can get past Germany, it’ll at best be Holland 

Germany won’t be an easy game, even as below-par as they’ve been.

That said, we’ve got Wembley for most of our matches now too.

[Pedantic Pete]

The easy side of the draw probably means the Germans in the final again..even though they are shite!

 

[aintforever]

Has opened up nicely but so did the World Cup and we couldn’t even get past Croatia so I’m not holding out much hope.

 

 

[JustinSFC]

I just really, really would have liked somebody else, not because I'm worried about losing, but we get this fixture every single fucking tournament.

It would have been nice, if just once, we got someone else.

[CB Fry]

5 minutes ago, JustinSFC said:

I just really, really would have liked somebody else, not because I'm worried about losing, but we get this fixture every single fucking tournament.

It would have been nice, if just once, we got someone else.

Every single tournament?

Jesus wept.

[SKD]

4 minutes ago, JustinSFC said:

I just really, really would have liked somebody else, not because I'm worried about losing, but we get this fixture every single fucking tournament.

It would have been nice, if just once, we got someone else.

When was the last tournament we got Germany? 2010 South Africa? 
 

Personally, I think Germany at Wembley is a great fixture. No doubt it’ll go to pens. 

[Jimmy_D]

5 minutes ago, JustinSFC said:

I just really, really would have liked somebody else, not because I'm worried about losing, but we get this fixture every single fucking tournament.

It would have been nice, if just once, we got someone else.

Three times in the last 30 years?

Only two of them knockout games!

[JustinSFC]

.... In my lifetime.

[Saint Garrett]

We’ve played them in the following tournament games:

2010: lost 4-1

2000: won 1-0

1996: drew 1-1 lost on pens

1990: drew 1-1 lost on pens

1982: drew 0-0

1972: drew 0-0

1966: won 4-2

 

Hardly every tournament…

[CB Fry]

9 minutes ago, JustinSFC said:

.... In my lifetime.

Well if you're twelve years old we played Germany in South Africa and then again on Tuesday, 11 years and five tournaments later.

[whelk]

Makes a nice change for us not be playing Italy. 

[Baird of the land]

29 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Germany feel more beatable than in previous years. If we can do them it really opens up.

You'd like to think the winner of our match is one of the semi-finalists.

They are certainly more suspect at the back. However England made Scotland look solid at the back.

Germany showed lots of cutting edge against Portugal(even if portugal are decidedly average bar Ronaldo)

[Dark Munster]

22 minutes ago, Pedantic Pete said:

The easy side of the draw probably means the Germans in the final again..even though they are shite!

 

Yep. It's been 4 years since they reached a major semi-final, and 6 years since getting to a final. So they are long overdue.

Shite Germany > Golden generation England.

[Jimmy_D]

England vs Germany, at Wembley, in a Euros knockout game, with Southgate as manager....

It’s going to go to penalties isn’t it?

[trousers]

Saintsweb Forum; Tuesday 29th June; circa 7.15pm

Jordan Henderson misses decisive penalty in shoot-out...

SWF: "Ward-Prowse would have buried that"

Lord D : "Pony... wah wah wah... nice son-in-law.... Wah wah wah..."

 

Edited 23 June, 2021 by trousers

[JustinSFC]

16 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Well if you're twelve years old we played Germany in South Africa and then again on Tuesday, 11 years and five tournaments later.

Right.

[Ted Bates Statue]

Everyone moans when a certain poster does pedantry, but clearly all you need is some loose hyperbole, and suddenly all the forum experts crawl out of their caves to smugly point out that the day before Wednesday was Tuesday.

[Dark Munster]

22 minutes ago, Jimmy_D said:

England vs Germany, at Wembley, in a Euros knockout game, with Southgate as manager....

It’s going to go to penalties isn’t it?

If it does, I wonder who will win?

[Jimmy_D]

6 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

If it does, I wonder who will win?

Depends, either cosmic irony or a redemption arc is a pretty good narrative.

Southgate already broke England’s World Cup penalty curse after all.

[Lighthouse]

If we’re doing predictions, let’s see how this ages. My predictions are:

R16 - Denmark, Italy, NL, Belgium, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden

QF - France, Italy, NL, Germany

SF - Germany, Italy

Winners - Italy

[Jimmy_D]

R16

Portugal, Italy, France, Croatia

Sweden, England, NL, Denmark

QF

Italy, France, England, Denmark

SF

Italy, England

F

Italy

[Dark Munster]

[Dark Munster]

That left hand side is brutal. I don't fancy Austria going all the way.

[Jimmy_D]

9 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

That left hand side is brutal. I don't fancy Austria going all the way.

I dunno, if they can get past Italy, then past Belgium/Portugal, then past France, it does open up for them a bit after that.

[CB Fry]

7 hours ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

Everyone moans when a certain poster does pedantry, but clearly all you need is some loose hyperbole, and suddenly all the forum experts crawl out of their caves to smugly point out that the day before Wednesday was Tuesday.

In fairness, someone saying "we always get Germany every time" is like something your Mum would say. It deserved the treatment it got.

Edited 24 June, 2021 by CB Fry

[Badger]

9 hours ago, Saint Garrett said:

We’ve played them in the following tournament games:

2010: lost 4-1

2000: won 1-0

1996: drew 1-1 lost on pens

1990: drew 1-1 lost on pens

1982: drew 0-0

1972: drew 0-0

1966: won 4-2

 

Hardly every tournament…

You missed out 1970 lost 3-2 (after being 2-0 up) in the Mexico WC. Think this was a QF, certainly the most painful of the lot as I recall although may be because I was much younger and we had hopes/expectations of playing Brazil again in the final.

Wasn't 1972 a qualifying game ? If so thought we lost one leg (at home),2-0 or 3-1.

 

Edited 24 June, 2021 by Badger