UEFA Euro 2016 Finals

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I hope we don't end up with a draw... :rolleyes:

That Welsh fan... so many feels! :lol:
 
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Exciting match.

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Commendable comeback. This game never deserved to end in a stalemate.

Wales can go and kick Russian arse next week.
 
The atmosphere is literally buzzing! We got to have Vardy & Sturridge starting now, their pace makes the opposition defence so edgy.

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Amazing how we are treated like a minnow in many English quarters and it took until the 91st minute to win the game.

I can't say England didn't deserve it but this is sickening. Kill all humans.
 
Ukraine Vs. N.Ireland. A must win match for both, but predicting a 2-0 win for Ukraine with Konoplyanka and Yarmolenko grabbing the goals.
 
Raheem Sterling makes Daniel Ohhe'sinjuredagain seem like a wise squad choice.
Liquid
Amazing how we are treated like a minnow in many English quarters and it took until the 91st minute to win the game.

I can't say England didn't deserve it but this is sickening. Kill all humans.
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On the one hand, wooo, the mighty England needed a goal that would have (incorrectly) been flagged offside in most games and a bundled extra time goal to overcome a tiny country that almost never plays international finals competitions with a population one-eighteenth the size.

On the other, wooo, Wales needed the most expensive player in the world to even put a dent in a questionable defence in front of the least reliable goalkeeper from a leading nation.

I don't think either nation is going to progress much further. If positions stay as they are, the next round opponents for them will be England - Romania and Wales - Iceland...
 
Here's a stat: England are the first team to overcome a deficit to take a lead so far in Euro 2016.
 
Peasantslayer
I imagine this stat is accurate but Ashley Williams should be in a bloody England shirt!
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One of the commentators, Guy Mowbray I think, made it a point to say which members of the Wales team weren't born in Wales (Edwards, A. Williams, Robson-Kanu and Chester from today's team) with that extra edge of "they're playing against their real country" but it's the sort of thing which was never thrown at... say, John Barnes or Rob Jones or Owen Hargreaves. Even Michael Owen and Ryan Shawcross are plastic daffodils.

Then you have Jack Charlton's old Ireland teams and their "mercenaries not good enough for England, Scotland or Wales" as Bigot Billy Bingham used to call them.

This aspect of the five footballing nations will probably never go away. It's gone from the flexibility of old, when in the early days of internationals players were freely available to be selected by more than one nation, to the inflexibility and tribalism of today.
 
Oddly, players CAN switch nations even after playing full internationals... Like this guy.

I've never worked out how or why.
 
Then there's the Boatang (Sp?) brothers - one played for Germany and the other Ghana.
 
scholesy1899
I wished Giggs had chosen differently.
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Contrary to popular belief, and to what every English newspaper would tell you, Ryan Giggs was never eligible to play for England. Yes, even though he played for England schoolboys.

He would be eligible in today's game but eligibility for the home nations was different back in 1991. The only other country Ryan Giggs was eligible for was Sierra Leone, where his grandfather was from.
 
Taped the game because of work, into the last 15 mins now, yes I know what happens....
 
Liquid
Contrary to popular belief, and to what every English newspaper would tell you, Ryan Giggs was never eligible to play for England. Yes, even though he played for England schoolboys.

He would be eligible in today's game but eligibility for the home nations was different back in 1991. The only other country Ryan Giggs was eligible for was Sierra Leone, where his grandfather was from.
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Yeah I don't think urban myth was invented then but as a boy I still used to shout it at him. Wished.

Euro 96 with Macca would have been phenomenal.
 
Disappointed to lose like we did by doing pretty much nothing apart from the free kick, we seemed nervous, fair play to England and their subs which they got spot on, they deserve it, its a setback in terms of the group but I still think we can qualify..

Superb result for Northern Ireland!! :cheers:
 
Famine
Oddly, players CAN switch nations even after playing full internationals... Like this guy.

I've never worked out how or why.
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It also happened with Thiago Motta; 2 caps for his native Brazil and 20something caps for his other passport, Italy.

I believe the FIFA rules now are you can change international allegiance providing you have not playing in a competitive game for your first country. i.e. If you've only played in friendlies and exhibitions, you can switch.

With Neustädter he was born to Eastern European Germans in the Ukrainian SSR and was approached by Ukraine about representing them but I'm guessing that he plays for Russia, despite seemingly no actual ties to Russia, because he was born in the Soviet Union, and born a Soviet citizen, and Russia has the Soviet Union's football continuity.

A similar appropriation happened with a lot of the Soviet Union and CIS players of the early 1990s. All of the best Ukrainian lads like Kanchelskis and Onopko ended up playing for Russia.
 
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Liquid
One of the commentators, Guy Mowbray I think, made it a point to say which members of the Wales team weren't born in Wales (Edwards, A. Williams, Robson-Kanu and Chester from today's team) with that extra edge of "they're playing against their real country" but it's the sort of thing which was never thrown at... say, John Barnes or Rob Jones or Owen Hargreaves. Even Michael Owen and Ryan Shawcross are plastic daffodils.
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It's not as bad as cricket where journalists refer to "South African born Kevin Pietersen's" feud with "England's Andrew Strauss" who was born in Johannesburg. Even now Ben Stokes is just Ben Stokes, but when he couldn't buy a run he was a Kiwi.

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Then there's the Boatang (Sp?) brothers - one played for Germany and the other Ghana.
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There's also the Xhaka brothers in this tournament, one for Switzerland and one for Albania.
 
adamp93
It's not as bad as cricket where journalists refer to "South African born Kevin Pietersen's" feud with "England's Andrew Strauss" who was born in Johannesburg. Even now Ben Stokes is just Ben Stokes, but when he couldn't buy a run he was a Kiwi.
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Don't bring the England and Wales cricket team into this. You know, the one which is controlled by the ECB, the England and Wales Cricket Board.
 

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