Football 2020-21 Season

beamer wrote:Euro ‘96 all over again? Football comes home, as do Scotland early on, and the unheralded Czechs make the final?

Well, that one’s still on the cards after they beat the Dutch… but the Swiss toppling France has to be the biggest Euro shock since Greece won the whole thing.

Wide open now, and the big one tomorrow (Sweden v Ukraine, of course…)

England's to lose from here... So, Denmark it is.

Denmark and Spain look the best teams atm.

C'mon England.

England hasn't conceded a goal yet! Hard to lose when you have a defence like that.

And defence was supposed to be our weakness, apart from having a World XI of options at right-back.

We still haven’t quite solved the puzzle of what is the right combination up front, but now it’s pretty much NFL-style rolling subs then they all get a go at some stage.

It is wide open, though. I don’t think Spain are that great, they may have scored 10 in 2 games but Slovakia imploded and the Croatia game could have been anything. I’d only put them at just above 50-50 to beat the Swiss. Italy-Belgium winners might be favourites, though the Belgians in particular are being hit with injuries. And then there’s Denmark and the Czechs, who are both on a roll and have a track record of surprise successes at this competition.

We have to take Ukraine seriously, anyway, we’ve seen other big names come unstuck.

Still beams, you have to be a teeny weeny bit excited...

JGK wrote:Still beams, you have to be a teeny weeny bit excited...

Well, yeah, but… we had a similar scenario three years ago, beat Sweden and Croatia to make the World Cup final. We managed one out of two.

35 years of dashed hopes since Maradona rose like a salmon to “head” the ball over the foot-taller Peter Shilton keeps my expectations at a certain level. I mean, that’s almost twice as long as we waited for the Ashes (and there’s another 20 years before it that I’m not old enough to remember!)

Looks a quality effort by England v Ukraine.

Semi-finals for the first time in Euro since 1996.

C'mon England.

England v Italy final at Wembley would be tasty. An England win would give victories over 2 of the 3 Axis nations in Wembley Finals.

A win over Japan might be tricky though.

JGK wrote:England v Italy final at Wembley would be tasty.  An England win would give victories over 2 of the 3 Axis nations in Wembley Finals.

A win over Japan might be tricky though.

We might host the 2030 World Cup and play them in the final…

Just watching the Copa Final. Needless to say it’s a diveathon. Very frustrating to watch.

Bad luck England.

lol Pomgolia

Truly disgusting game with diving a dominant tactic.

Soccer is fqd

Guess it’s another 55 years then.

We won’t win in Qatar, anyway. The Aussies have more chance of lifting the trophy in those conditions!

Great start by England. What a shame it all tailed off so badly.

Can’t find a football thread for this season but…

An out of date thread...

but congrats to the England Women on winning Euro.

Ya gotta love the player Conga line at the Manager's press conference.

****** off you ****** prick

Eh?

Jill Scott quote to the chick that fouled her

Manchester United record defeats

   Record defeat: 0–7

   v Blackburn Rovers, First Division, 10 April 1926
   v Aston Villa, First Division, 27 December 1930
   v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Second Division, 26 December 1931
   v Liverpool, Premier League, 5 March 2023

A 1-1 draw with Udinese gives NAPOLI the Serie A title. Their first win in the Scudetto since the 1989/90 season when Maradona was there.

Napoli have been brilliant for most of the season but have struggled since the start of the April. Victor Osimhen & Khvicha Kvaratskhelia have been their stars of 2022/23.

Yeah, their big players are likely to be picked off by English or Spanish clubs in the summer but an impressive achievement, they’ve been down to the third tier I believe since Maradona’s day, and blown it a couple of times since they became contenders again.

Less surprising to see a team in sky blue topping the table in England, but it’s a club who nearly went out of existence a quarter of a century ago that’s threatening to gatecrash the Euro party here. Brighton completed a double over Man Utd with an ultra-Fergie-time VAR penalty, and retain outside hopes of reeling them in for a top four spot, and a strong chance of holding off Liverpool and/or Spurs.

I don’t like Liverpool but kudos to their fans who booed during and drowned out playing of God save the King.

Ange Postecoglou joins Spurs as the EPL’s first Aussie manager. Can he cut it south of the border?