Euro 2016 Match comments only.

Come on chaps - I'm surprised none of you have started the football chat

I've got my bets on:

• Belgium to win the tournament
• Belgium to win and Lukaku to be top scorer (okay that's a wild card)
• any player to score in each round.

I'm Welsh/English. Wales don't have a hope of winning and England are doubtful. I fancy Belgium - they've got some great players although just a shame Kompany's not going to be there but Denayer is a talented young player (not sure the tournament will be too big for him, as will the boots he has to fill).

Excited though, tomorrow from 4pm I will be incommunicado

 

I reckon I know how it will go.

A few score of boys will kick a piece of leather about. Thousands more will watch, shout, cry, fight, and get stupidly drunk. Then everyone will drift back to their ordinary mundane lives, just the same as before, but a bit more skint.

 

Sorry won't be watching it, can't stand football

 

Has the EU introduced a big new banknote? Is that what it is all about?

 

We call it soccer over here and the times I have been at the pub when the FIFA games are televised I have wished for a box of NoDoze. Why don't they shorten the field by half to speed up the game and hand out Emmy Awards to those who portray the most injured?

 

I'll be watching. I'm English/Welsh as well. Spain will win it though

 

I'll have great fun doing it though Although I won't be doing the fighting and getting stupidly drunk, but there will be lots of shouting at the telly and crying no doubt (probably not happy crying).

 

Lucky enough to remember the 1966 world cup England win For the past 50 years we have raised our hopes at every World cup and Euro competition only to be utterly disappointed by England's lack luster performance . Even the loons who stick flags on the car windows - I have seen one - can't really get excited this year. Maybe the Football gods will favour us this year?

 

I am looking forward to some of it.
I am an optimist , glass half full kind of guy and am hoping England ,Wales and Ireland do rather well...............One can dream.
England to best Russia 3-0..............although our first game always seem to be 0-0.
Come on let's be positive.......Come on England.

 

Yep, I'm being positive.




















I'm positive it will all end in tears.

 

I knew we could rely on you Pete......

 

First of all let me say I know very little about football.

But I have to say I've never seen any team from other countries that mess around passing the ball backwards and forwards like England do.
Its like no one actually wants the responsibility of actually trying to score a goal.

If the game was about possession of the ball England could win hands down, but as far as I know, its about scoring goals.

The times I've heard the old saying, "we didn't deserve to lose, we played well", well if you play well you score goals, if you just push the ball around you dont.

 

OMG that sounds like Toronto and their Maple Leafs. The last time they won the cup it was on black and white television!

 

1966 pre dates Black and white.
In those days it was sepia