Football The 2020/2021 Season Thread

[Raven]

It was quite funny after the match, which I'd watched on RTE. For once, I just wanted jingoistic English feelgood instead of Didi Hamman ranting about undeserving England.

Then I realised it was on bloody ITV so I had to go to the manual tuning. Switch it on, and...its Roy Keane

NB. Is Ian Wright on both channels now?

Most are interchangeable these days, Lineker even does Amazon work. I wonder if it was part of his pay cut, to be allowed to do non-competing coverage.

As for ITV, everything about it is bad, from the very moment that car salesman Pougatch opens his stupid mouth to the commentators losing interest in the game to Lee Dixon trying to explain player psychology in international games.

 

[Aoami]

Pougatch (or Poo-Gash as he is known in my head) is absolutely fucking god awful.

 

[Raven]

Just been talking to a Danish fella, very magnanimous in defeat, agreed that it was the right winner.

Also, what have they been feeding the Danish players? Some of them are enormous, Saka got absolutely stomped on a few times.

 

[Wij]

Also, what have they been feeding the Danish players?

Bacon obvs

 

[Raven]

Y I K E S

Euro 2020: England charged by Uefa after 'laser' penalty incident

Uefa charges England after a laser pointer is directed at Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel during Wednesday's Euro 2020 semi-final.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Aoami]

Y I K E S

Euro 2020: England charged by Uefa after 'laser' penalty incident

Uefa charges England after a laser pointer is directed at Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel during Wednesday's Euro 2020 semi-final.

www.bbc.co.uk

Just saw this, there is a video as well, absolutely awful. Why can't our fans just be normal for once.

 

[Raven]

Absolute arseholes. The least I want to see is banned from all stadiums and some sort of criminal charge.

 

[DaGaffer]

Just been talking to a Danish fella, very magnanimous in defeat, agreed that it was the right winner.

Also, what have they been feeding the Danish players? Some of them are enormous, Saka got absolutely stomped on a few times.

Vestergaard is fucking terrifying. Of course if he'd been born English he'd have been directed to the nearest rugby pitch at a young age and told to get cracking.

 

[Ormorof]

Also, what have they been feeding the Danish players? Some of them are enormous, Saka got absolutely stomped on a few times.

As a ~2m tall dane, its mostly rugbrød and leverpostej... If you can pronounce it you get citizenship

 

[Raven]

Fantasy Football then.

@caLLous

 

[Aoami]

As a ~2m tall dane, its mostly rugbrød and leverpostej... If you can pronounce it you get citizenship

Rye bread and pate bruv

 

[Raven]

Toast and spread.

 

[caLLous]

There was some booing heard during the Danish national anthem and that has been criticised by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman.

"We don't want fans to be booing teams," said the spokesman. "We want fans to be showing support and being respectful.

...unless they're taking the knee, in which case have at them.

 

[Raven]

Booing Germany or Scotland, and maybe Argentina fine, there are reasons for that, mostly pantomime.

I am not in favour of booing teams like Denmark though.

 

[caLLous]

I don't think a great amount of thought goes into it - I think they just boo the national anthem of whoever England is about to play.

 

[Gray]

I had a feeling the Danes would be the toughest to crack, I remember we had similar issues with Iceland.

The diving claim is pretty funny though... Whatever we do for diving, Italy will probably end up outscoring us on any theatrics.

 

[Gwadien]

I had a feeling the Danes would be the toughest to crack, I remember we had similar issues with Iceland.

The diving claim is pretty funny though... Whatever we do for diving, Italy will probably end up outscoring us on any theatrics.

Yeah but even so, the attitude seems to be that the Italians are the masters of diving, when in reality they're only slightly better at it than the rest of the world.

It's a problem in football IMO and should be punished more severely, but I heard last night that there's some concussion thing that they've all signed up to, so it seems faking injuries is going to be more encouraged by holding the head.

Also I thought it was pretty funny last night that the commentator kept going on about how Kane was amazing at getting himself in a corner and 'forcing the other team to push him in the back' - aka diving?

 

[Raven]

There is diving and there is diving. The best at it (Grealish) force the opponent to foul them.

 

[Moriath]

Winning a foul by putting yourself in a position between the defender and the ball where they push / trip you isnt cheating.

going down cause you are expecting to be fouled is shite.

but refs need to give fouls / pens when the striker tries to stay up. It would mean that the players wouldnt have to go down then. But they don’t.

 

[Scouse]

bit late, but:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423XDQ2rTLM

 

[caLLous]

Matterface mistake must be corrected by ITV in time for England's final

Commentary is not easy and most mistakes are forgivable. But Sam Matterface is out of his depth on ITV and Clive Tyldesley is *right there*.

www.football365.com

 

[Moriath]

Matterface mistake must be corrected by ITV in time for England's final

Commentary is not easy and most mistakes are forgivable. But Sam Matterface is out of his depth on ITV and Clive Tyldesley is *right there*.

www.football365.com

Doesnt matter cause no one will be watching itv for the final.

 

[Raven]

In the unlikely event of it being declared a bank holiday on Monday, I wonder if Wales would also get the day off?

 

[Ormorof]

In the unlikely event of it being declared a bank holiday on Monday, I wonder if Wales would also get the day off?

Northern Ireland already has day off, they will be burning effigies of celtic supporters to celebrate how English they are

 

[Lamp]

The booing of the Danish national anthem wasn't impressive.
Boo all you like during the match...but 60 seconds of sportsmanship and respect for the other side's players and fans during their anthem isn't asking a lot.

 

[caLLous]

 

[Moriath]

The booing of the Danish national anthem wasn't impressive.
Boo all you like during the match...but 60 seconds of sportsmanship and respect for the other side's players and fans during their anthem isn't asking a lot.

I don’t see why everyones getting their knickers in a twist over this booing anthems.

its not a big issue and its just showing a bit of rivalry.

the crowd are not sportsmen. They are partisan supporters of one side. And for the next 90 plus minutes want to make the atmosphere as intimidating and hostile for the other team on the pitch as they can to help their team.

they paid their money to get into see the game. As long as they are not breaking the law I don’t see a problem with them booing anything they feel like.

 

[Lamp]

If England went to play abroad and were outnumbered 8-1 by the home crowd, and our National Anthem was booed, the Daily Mail would be choking on their own vitriol the following day in rebuking them.

It makes us look like yobbos. Classless disrespectful morons.

We never used to make a habit of doing this. Its a recent phenomenon. I just think it costs nothing to stfu for 60 seconds, show some common courtesy, then you can boo as much as you like. You don't get this at the Olympics.

 

[Scouse]

As Albert Einstein said:

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It's the measles of mankind

That applies equally to those who boo nations as it does to those who think they must be respected @Lamp.

Arguably, those booing aren't giving a shit about any of that - like @Moriath said they're just supporting their side. However, the call for respect is in effect buying in to the bullshit.

Personally, I couldn't give two hoots either way.

 

[Raven]

I think it's fine to boo Scotland and Germany, part of the pantomime of the matches. But it's not OK to boo everyone.