[Tournament] UEFA Euro 2008

I heard there was some football tournament or something on this year. I'm not sure there's any decent teams though. England decided not to bother after thoroughly embarrasing the rest of Europe in the Champions' League this season.



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Actually, we all know that the current generation of England internationals have had far too easy a ride in recent years, getting picked on reputation rather than talent and their loyalties have all shifted to their clubs over their countries. To blame the influx of foreigners to the Premiership is ridiculous. There were enough English players in the semi-finals of the Champions League to field (Almost) a full 11 and from the quarters onwards it didn't look like the trophy was going anywhere except Manchester or London. We have two of the greatest club teams in the world at the moment (And Liverpool and Arsenal) who are full of quality English players but they just don't care about playing for England any more. I'd rather see Paul Ince and Stuart Pearce get recalls to the squad than see sicknote Owen or Fat Frank getting picked again. They might be old but at watching them play made you proud to be English and really put you in the mood for smashing up some continental pavement cafes which lets face it, is what supporting England is all about.

I'm backing the Czech Republic and Croatia this time out. The French are all too old and play for Arsenal, the Italians just play ugly football that nobody wants to watch, being English I wouldn't ever support the Germans or Spanish anyway, the Dutch team still all hate each other, the Portugese are in with a chance but I can't support them since the last world cup and I don't really see anyone else winning it. I certainly don't think we'll have another Greek upset or anything like that.

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Originally Posted by Djinova

Cristiano Ronaldo is going to be responsible for failed penalty shots, general comedy and drama lulz.

I reckon he's grown up a bit now and is likely to be a major challenger for the Golden Boot in the tournament. He's been a scoring machine all season with United and coming off the back of winning the Premiership and the Champions' League he's likely to be well up for the Euros.

I mean, he's still a cunt but I reckon he'll have a good tournament.

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Gerrard? He plays well against poor opposition sure but other than that, he's strictly a big game player. That's been Liverpool's problem all season, that and the hilarious squad rotation. Gerrard is a great player on his day but I'd rather have Scholes or Hargreaves on my team. Agreed that Ronaldo will never be Figo though. I see his career following Maradonna's more than anyone.

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Hahahaha, all the best footballers have one.






I was speaking idiomatically.

I've placed my first couple of real life bets on the tournament now. I went with accumulators on group winners, Portugal, Italy, Spain and either Croatia or Germany. £2.50 each bet (I only had £5 in my Betfair account and don't get paid until next week =( ) and Germany wins me £46, Croatia £94.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Pretty convincing win by Jerry today. I thought the Poles might have put up a bit more of a fight but that was pretty much 1939 all over again. Good couple of goals though, I reckon Croatia will struggle to beat the Germans in that group.

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Originally Posted by Musharraf

Yesterdays two matches were pretty good, Croatia was VERY lucky since Austria (which can be found in the FIFA team list somewhere around rank #90, behind Mocambique) played really good.

The German victory wasn't that obvious, either. Poland had a very good defense and it was difficult to play against them. I except Germany and Croatia to win group B. Everything else should be a surprise.

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Mush, all I'm getting from that link is a banner ad.

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All Italy are capable of is grinding out single goal victories, it's been that way for years. That's why I predicted 1-0 to the Italians. If you score first against them they pretty much go to pieces. They're also suffering from an attack of proper refereeing in that throwing themselves on the floor all the time might impress Serie A refs but the rest of the world will tell you to play on and stop diving. I fucking hate Italian footballers and seeing them get beaten is always a pleasure.

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Well I'm clearly no good at predicting football results. With Jerry losing though it looks like Croatia will win the group so all I need is the Italians to stop fucking about and win their last two matches and I'm £100 richer which will soften the blow of losing this somewhat.

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Ha ha ha, seeing France go out without even scoring makes me feel not so bad about England not qualifying. Fuck Italy though, if they'd put some effort in and won their group I'd have won close to £100. As it is, a safe bet on Croatia winning the other night has brought me back to a financial break-even point for the tournament so far so I can blow it all again on the quarter finals.

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Originally Posted by Musharraf

Considering the fact that both Holland and Croatia won with their absolute B-teams (which are pretty much the equivalent of German second league or English Premier League teams)

Funny, I didn't see many German teams in the semi-finals of the Champions League this year.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Er... Mush, good buddy, I think you'll find I called 3-2 to Germany and have Croatia to win 2-0, I just listed the matches in the wrong order.

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Originally Posted by Musharraf

Haha yeah, indeed, I'm sorry

Can't believe you actually bet for Germany... good call though R*E*S*P*E*C*T

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I've got a fiver on them to win the whole tournament. After the first couple of matches the odds had stretched to 8/1 on Germany winning so I thought that sounded like a good deal. After last night they're back down to 4/1 so I'm glad I acted when I did. Everyone knows that Germany and Italy both get better as the tournaments go on and I don't think even the revitalised Dutch team can beat Germany now.

Also, I can still technically beat Juanzen but that'd require me getting every result right from now on except the ones where we picked the same result. Unlikely but still technically possible.

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The way we played in the qualifiers, Moldova could have knocked us out...

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If you guys keep picking results this badly, Aardy's gonna come third despite not entering bets for the quarters onwards.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Second, I'll take that. I reckon Juanzen must be clairvoyant or something though, good picks mate.

So Deni, where did you come exactly?

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She did mention that a small man with a micropenis was dryhumping her leg the other day. If I'd known you were in town I'd informed the local press that the incredible bearded midget and his lack of skill at predicting football results was in town.

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