The Football Thread

France - Romania 2-0. Excellent game, but in the end it does leave me with a bit of a bitter taste as the first French goal appears to have been scored after an initial offside position. At his only third game in these preliminaries, Blanc seems to have already created a promising new French team, after the shameful team of this year's World Cup was drastically cut down and only a few players survived into the current team which comprises a lot of youngsters. Hungry young talents is how I'd describe this new French team.
The Romanians played surprisingly well after previous disappointing matches, much better than I expected. They had a great second half, with three major goal opportunities missed before the French goal. I would have started to hope that this Romanian team might finally be a major team once again, but after three games without victory it seems like our chances for Euro 2012 are down to almost zero.
Stade de France was packed and the atmosphere was incredible, and I now regret chosing not to go and see the match live (even if we lost).


Edited by harmonium.ro - October 09 2010 at 16:40

^ well you got John Carew of Aston Villa (before that Rosenborg, Valencia, Roma, Besiktas, Lyon), John Arne Riise of Roma (earlyer cubbs Monaco and Liverpool), and some local players

aginor wrote: ^ well you got John Carew of Aston Villa (before that Rosenborg, Valencia, Roma, Besiktas, Lyon), John Arne Riise of Roma (earlyer cubbs Monaco and Liverpool), and some local players Brede Hangeland in Fullham, Steffen Iversen of Rosenborg (later Tottenham)   and the coach Egil "Drillo" Olsen

Thanks mate. I remember Carew and Riise from a decade ago... I didn't know they were still going. The new ones I don't know at all.

Italy Serbia abandoned after 10 mins due to crowd trouble.  Serbians throwing flairs and fireworks on the pitch

Scotland 

harmonium.ro wrote: Scotland

I should have waited for the moment but still that was a -worthy moment.

Aginor, why did you assume France won't win? Their new team is getting better and better.

Also, did England lose two points with Montenegro because they're lame or did Montenegro win one point with England because they're getting better and better?

harmonium.ro wrote: Scotland

An emoticon history of the Scottish national football team:

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Two goals down against the world champions, we clamber back to 2-2 and have the Spaniards on the ropes before in finest Krankies slapstick tradition, conspire to 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory'.

If heroic failure were an Olympic event we would clean up for sure. Worse thing is, as much as we hate losing, we seem to hate winning more...

Naismith scored a fine goal and may be one for the future while our best defender (David Weir) is 74 years old with a turn of pace that would put only a glacier to shame.


Edited by ExittheLemming - October 13 2010 at 05:17

^ I didn’t see the match, but I’ve read that Norway had changed eight of their players from the match against Cyprus. Egil Olsen obviously wanted to try out some fresh talents.

And I’ve also read that Croatia were very good. Plus, I seriously think that The Future Now is an excellent album.

This looks like it has been the best match of the weekend so far:





The goals remind me of the World Cup so much

^ Martin O'Neill is a big fan of Jethro Tull.