Be Excellent To Each Other

And two and a bit days in, all we seem to be talkimg about is the violence. Of which, Plisken tweeted this link:

http://www.espnfc.com/european-champion ... bling-sign

That out the way, Christian Bale scored a decent free kick as Wales won a game. I hope Wales do well.

I thought the 'keeper should have done better for Bale's free kick. I mean it was good that he got it up and down, but it was within a meter of the keeper and he should have saved it.

Watching the Germans efficiently take apart an inferior side with little fuss.

#envy

Hmmm. Maybe not

No, you were right the first time!

I bloody love the Germans - that was the best game overall so far.

I have Poland in the work sweepstakes. Whoo!

I've got (southern) Ireland

Finland! Finland! Finland!

The country where I want to be!

I was made to watch the England match... when did the sport get so boring...

It's always been that way.

We had to watch the last 20 minutes. I was mostly surprised that:

1) Rooney was still playing
2) Hart was still playing
3) Rooney is only 30
4) the match wasn't stop when that huge exploding bang went off near the 90 minute mark.

I haven't seen any football at all for nearly five years now, and I realise I no longer care about it.

Change that to 'international football' and it's true for me. Obviously the Cherries are great and worth watching.

Yes, you may be right. That said, it's so long since I saw a Spurs match that I wouldn't know any of the team now, so I'd not have quite the same affiliation, I'm sure. I used to love supporting a team that was never quite at the top, just bubbling under... The potential gave so much to support for. I'm glad I managed to pass the Spurs supporting crown to at least one of the twins

Spurs finished below Leicester last season. How embarrassing

I didn't say I hadn't seen any news for the last five years

And yes, the premier league (probably called something else now) is certainly looking different from when I was last following!

Every one finished below Leicester That's how I justify it. No getting around the fact we let those gooners pick our pocket at the last minute though. Furious = was.

Quite liking the tourny so far. Best game so far was Wales, love me an underdog.

Not happy with how we (the English) were somehow blamed for a bunch of psycho Russians attacking us in the stadium. Not quite sure how a few drunken dick heads on the streets being the same as firing flares/flashbangs/fireworks into the English crowd and then attacking them, ripping of their shirts.

It's funny because apparently we've been threatened with disqualification yet the only people who failed that night were the security forces. How did they know that there wasn't a pipe bomb hidden in one of those flares? why are people even allowed any sort of explosive after what's been going on in Paris etc? looks to me like they fucked up and now want to blame every one else.

Any way, that aside yeah, best game I've watched so far was Wales. The England game was good and we were as relentless as Spurs were last season but sadly only one goal. Still the second best game I've watched though. Watched a bit of the German game, but only when they seemed to have slowed down a bit so it got boring.

Oooh, my lovely place of work have booked us out a meeting room with a big screen and ordeered in some beers for England vs Wales on Thursday! Huzzah!

I got Wales.

Gareth Bale is a one man team. He showed that at Spurs. Very dangerous indeed.

Gareth Bale is not a one-man team

But he is one man.

And he plays in a team.

The team of "give the ball to Christian Bale!"

I am not a number.

Christian Bale plays cricket

Fuck.

I've just realised this is a double pun. Because bails and bat(s)man

Italy looked very impressive and strong tonight. And Belgium's "Golden Generation" looks about as effective as England's from a decade or so back.

I've only seen the goals from the earlier games so can't comment too much on those.

Belgium looked like England as well, their passing was awful and their choice of passes worse.

Apparently I mean "Sweden! Sweden! Sweden!".

Bloody hell, Buffon is still playing?

He was at Spurs !. We qualified for the CL with him in our squad and haven't since. (Apart from this year, and that's Spurs on an entire new team full of youth)

However, given my comment was rather autistic (extremes) let me rephrase that to -

Any team with Gareth Bale in are dangerous and a threat because of the sky high talent he has. He can win you games you were losing and can score from positions that most players dream of. He can make a shit team look half decent (see also Spurs).

It's kinda like Portugal with Ronaldo compared to Portugal without (who we were actually able to beat for the first time since 1998 recently)

Gareth Bale is not a one-man team. It doesn't even make any sense. He isn't a team! Spurs could be a one-man team overly reliant on him though.

And what you said isn't because of autism. Everyone exaggerates to prove a point.

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Bale at Boro. Amazing.

Keeping Stewart Downing a priority though.

We would have ruined Bale in the Championship anyway.

According to my wife and mother I exaggerate everything though

And Bale really wasn't all that until he played for Spurs, changed position and started using his frightening pace to run at defenders. He made his name at Spurs really. I was absolutely gutted when we lost him and little Luka..

There are rumours of a £96m fee and Man U atm. Though why he would join a club that are not even in the CL is a bit of a mystery..

Really hoping Kane can get into this tourny. He's really been rather quiet up until now.

Russia have been given a suspended disqualification from Euro 2016. What does that mean? I assume it's like a suspended sentence, but I don't get those, either.

It means it'll be activated if they're naughty again

Never!

So it's basically a last chance warning? Is the same true of suspended prison sentences, do you know?

Unless you live in Bradford.

Yes. "Mess up again in tbis time period and you'll have the consequences of this sentence AND any ither"

Yeah I guess. It's basically saying "this is what's going to happen if you step out of line again"

So if you have a two-year suspended prison sentence for drug smuggling and you break the terms of the suspension, you'll start serving that sentence.

When I leave home to walk to school,
Dad always says to me,
Gareth, keep your eyelids up,
And see what you can see.
But when I tell him where I've been,
And what I think I've seen,
He looks and me and sternly says
"Your eyesight's much too keen.
Stop telling such outlandish tales.
Stop turning minnows into Wales"

I thought this was a spelling mistake but then I saw what you did.

It probably isn't totes verbatum, but i reckon I could do the whole book and be 97% right. I think it is my favourite.

I'd never heard of it, and we've got a Dr Seuss box set for Darwin, courtesy of Goddess Jasmine.

It's the only one that gets read. Which is a shame, as I would love to know what advances in the fields of animal husbandry the Dr could provide