OT: Euro04 - Page 7

gravey101 · #61 June 23rd, 2004, 09:26 PM

argh :-) Was trying to avoid seeing the result - wanted to watch it tonight... you can;t avoid it anywhere these days....

Still, no shame to see the Germans knocked out. At least England can;t lose to them on penalties in the semis now!

oleg · #62 June 23rd, 2004, 09:35 PM

Sorry

It is still worth watching though. Unless you are German fan of course. But then I watched Russia-Spain and Russia-Portugal both live and taped

gravey101 · #63 June 23rd, 2004, 09:38 PM

No problem...

Hardly - I'm English!

oleg · #64 June 23rd, 2004, 09:46 PM

Once Russia is out, me too

Old joke, very popular in Russia Last hmmm, 20 years:
- Who are going to support ?
- Ours, of course !
- and after that ?

gravey101 · #65 June 23rd, 2004, 10:00 PM

We have a Latvian here in the office. Other than Latvia, of course, he is for England too.

narf poit chez BOOM · #66 June 24th, 2004, 01:23 AM

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Originally posted by gravey101:
What circumstances? That they were unable to get the points, or goials, to progress? Some teams (and people) are able to take defeat and setback in good grace, others are always looking for someone else to blame. The circumstances are that Italy did not play quite well enough over their 3 games to progress. They are a good team, but luck, and maybe form were not on their side. They have no reason to be sour and embaress themselves and their fans by touting ludicrous conspiracy theories.

From the sounds of it, keeping in mind I only have a vague idea, qoute 'What was particularly amusing was the way that the Italians, having struggled all evening, scored a brilliant winning goal in the Last two minutes of the game. As they were celebrating their victory, they heard the news that the Sweden/Denmark game had finished 2-2, and the result of their own match was irrelevant. And then they had to carry on playing...'

gravey101 · #67 June 24th, 2004, 01:47 AM

Yep, that's about what happened, so they have every right to be disappointed/angry/whatever but there is no justification whatsoever in questioning the integrity of the Dane and Swedish teams.

Ruatha · #68 June 24th, 2004, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by Intimidator:
DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT

So... The Netherlands-Sweden then!

narf poit chez BOOM · #69 June 24th, 2004, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gravey101:
Yep, that's about what happened, so they have every right to be disappointed/angry/whatever but there is no justification whatsoever in questioning the integrity of the Dane and Swedish teams.

True. But as someone who's flown off the handle pretty badly before, I understand how it can happen.

#70 June 24th, 2004, 07:41 PM

It's 7.43pm BST, the national anthems have just finished, and I'm feeling a bit nervous...

Come on England!

7.48 1-0 to England (Owen)

And the first half finishes with the score still 1-0 to England. It's been a very exciting game so far, and I think I can speak for most football fans when I say that excitement is over-rated...

2-2 after extra time. So it'll be penalties then

[ June 24, 2004, 21:11: Message edited by: Mark the Merciful ]