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[Brady Marino]

Let's see if les bleu can overcome some home cooking today.

I'd say they're overcoming rather well.

 

[B Maverick]

Irish fans singing The Fields of Athenry, Spain v Ireland Euro 2012

That's the link I was trying to embed, but couldn't.

Who asserts copyright on something like this? Was such a good clip because the German announcer had the good sense to #### and let the fans be heard.

Also, for anyone who had doubts, Roy Keane is possibly even more of a ##### bag in retirement than he was when he played. I hope Ireland revoke his citizenship and he lives out his life as a begger forced to sell sex for food in Kabul. God I hate that guy.

Here's the same clip from someone's iPhone on press row. The audio is much better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSyuwub6zg

That is pretty awesome. Only thing better was being in the Rose Bowl for their opening match of the World Cup in 94. USA wasnt playing but they played all three national anthems (sweeden and nigeria i believe, then ours) and the whole stadium was signing.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I'm not even sure what Roy Keane was trying to say, but he sounded like a dickface.

 

[jonessed]

Let's see if les bleu can overcome some home cooking today.

Any home cooking in the first was more than made up for by the ref keeping the yellow in his pocket on that last Menez tackle.

Yeah, the game has been called pretty even. I'm not getting the home cooking argument.

 

[ffldrew]

Carroll is starting up front - England going old school today

 

[The Gator]

I'm not even sure what Roy Keane was trying to say, but he sounded like a dickface.

 

[Christo]

Horrible alternate uniform for the Limeys :X

 

[Eephus]

Horrible alternate uniform for the Limeys :X

They look like 10 referees

 

[Christo]

Do you know how I know England has no shot in this tournament?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

nice goal

 

[ffldrew]

Carroll is starting up front - England going old school today

"From Liverpool flop, to National Hero"

 

[Eephus]

nice goal

the way Woy wanted

 

[Christo]

Beautiful goal.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

nice goal

the way Woy wanted

 

[PIK95]

I really love watching the Spanish team play. IMO it's soccer at its purest -- pass and move and work for each other. Just love it.

The Irish are still singing, and the game has been over for five minutes. Kind of like '40' at a U2 concert I guess.

Best fans in the world of sports imo. They're singing the awesome Irish football anthem Fields of Athenry.

The German feed captured this moment pretty well, and the announcers mostly kept quite during the 6 minute rendition of this powerful song. I think Ireland should auto-qualify for all future FIFA and UEFA tournaments just so their fans can show show the world how it should be done.Irish fans singing The Fields of Athenry, Spain v Ireland Euro 2012

Dropkick Murphys do a good version of that tune also

 

[ffldrew]

Carroll clearly got fouled but ref with a no call - then turns around and calls Carroll on the clear foul and it cost them - England tried to park it a bit too early IMO

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Have there been any PK's so far in this tournament?

 

[ffldrew]

What a mess by the back line for England - 3 Swedish guys straight on for that header and all of England standing and watching

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Have there been any PK's so far in this tournament?

Only the red on the Polish goalie vs Greece that Tyton saved in his first action of the game

 

[whoknew]

Holy moly. The Sweden/England crowd are doing the Seven Nation Army chant.

I think it has officially jumped the shark now.

 

[Slapdash]

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

shootout!

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Holy moly. The Sweden/England crowd are doing the Seven Nation Army chant.I think it has officially jumped the shark now.

This is pretty standard at soccer games these dayshttp://deadspin.com/5875933/how-the-song-seven-nation-army-conquered-the-sports-world

 

[whoknew]

Holy moly. The Sweden/England crowd are doing the Seven Nation Army chant.I think it has officially jumped the shark now.

This is pretty standard at soccer games these dayshttp://deadspin.com/5875933/how-the-song-seven-nation-army-conquered-the-sports-world

Ok. So - can we stop now? Get something else?

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Holy moly. The Sweden/England crowd are doing the Seven Nation Army chant.I think it has officially jumped the shark now.

This is pretty standard at soccer games these dayshttp://deadspin.com/5875933/how-the-song-seven-nation-army-conquered-the-sports-world

Ok. So - can we stop now? Get something else?

I dig it

 

[Eephus]

shootout!

This looks like an EPL game between two mid-table teams. Not that that's a bad thing

 

[whoknew]

Holy moly. The Sweden/England crowd are doing the Seven Nation Army chant.I think it has officially jumped the shark now.

This is pretty standard at soccer games these dayshttp://deadspin.com/5875933/how-the-song-seven-nation-army-conquered-the-sports-world

Ok. So - can we stop now? Get something else?

I dig it

I hear you. I had actually never heard it at a stadium before I went to the Michigan/Notre Dame game this year. I'm sure that says a lot more about me than the trend.Anyway, I thought it was awesome. Until I found out its played at every football stadium in the country - and apparently the world.

 

[ffldrew]

fantastic body control and footwork

 

[Eephus]

now that was nicely done

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Looked like a street soccer move

 

[Christo]

now that was nicely done

Yep. Milner shouldn't even be allowed to dress for the next game.

 

[ffldrew]

England needs to stay on the front foot - they have been getting forward enough in this game with control - no need to go into a shell.

 

[Christo]

now that was nicely done

Yep. Milner shouldn't even be allowed to dress for the next game.

Oh, and that was the answer to my question.Milner. James Milner is the reason England has no shot in this tournament.

 

[ffldrew]

Awesome save

 

[ffldrew]

Who gets the call up front for the game against Ukraine?

 

[Eephus]

Who gets the call up front for the game against Ukraine?

Rooney/Welbeck

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Sweden wait.

 

[Spartans Rule]

Holy moly. The Sweden/England crowd are doing the Seven Nation Army chant.I think it has officially jumped the shark now.

This is pretty standard at soccer games these dayshttp://deadspin.com/5875933/how-the-song-seven-nation-army-conquered-the-sports-world

Ok. So - can we stop now? Get something else?

I dig it

It's being run into the ground, but it still beats the #### out of vuvuzelas.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Sensational goal from Welbeck yesterday. That's the kind of thing you try to do and fail 99 times out of 100 in practice.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Sensational goal from Welbeck yesterday. That's the kind of thing you try to do and fail 99 times out of 100 in practice.

Fantastic take.

 

[GoFishTN]

Rumors floating that AVB had signed with, or is talking to, Spurs. Didn't care for his attitude at Chelsea, but it's probably hard to smile with a knife in your back.

 

[Christo]

Rumors floating that AVB had signed with, or is talking to, Spurs. Didn't care for his attitude at Chelsea, but it's probably hard to smile with a knife in your back.

Give me a break. He bit off more than he could chew by taking the job in the first place. He alienated the vets. Those were his decisions. For his own failures, he's going to receive a buttload of money. If I were in charge of Spurs' search committee, I'd make damned sure he'd learned his lesson.

 

[GoFishTN]

He was told to rebuild the team and that's what he did. The veterans didn't like it.

Obviously he made mistakes, but they didn't help him any.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Opa!

 

[Spartans Rule]

Oh my.

I believe if results hold, Russia and Greece would both go through on goal difference.

But Russia's in a precarious position if they can't pull one back, because a winner in the Czech-Poland game would win the group, Russia and Greece would be tied for 2nd and Greece would have the H2H tiebreaker.

 

[Christo]

He was told to rebuild the team and that's what he did. The veterans didn't like it.

Obviously he made mistakes, but they didn't help him any.

Why should they help? He didn't just make mistakes. He made a monumental error in judgment. You don't rebuild a team during the middle of the season by benching proven vets and letting the team's season go down the tubes. You rebuild a team in the off-season by unloading vets who still have value.Hey, we're rebuilding. Go sit on the bench and watch.

OK, chief. Whatever's good for the team's future. I'll just go sit over here while my career is slipping away and you and the kids go tie Wigan, Swansea and Norwich and lose to QPR and West Brom.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Czechs and Greeks about to advance?

 

[Ursa M]

Czechs and Greeks about to advance?

And after Russia were so good on opening day too. Still plenty of time.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Polska :(

 

[Spartans Rule]

at the announcers gushing about how amazing Greece getting out of a group full of mediocre teams is.

They're likely getting Germany next. Winning that would be something.