Owen did nothing aswell.

But yeah we're lucky the others are poor,if we get a lead against both of them and then defend like that then Eriksson would need a slap.

On a positive note, I was impressed with the performances of Ledley King & Wayne Rooney.

Can always rely on Beckham, Heskey, and Gerrard to mess up. :mad:

I think it was luck that got England so far without conceding. It just didn't hold out.

Trust me, when you're an Ireland fan you get used to playing against teams much better than yours, and you just can't play like that and expect your luck to hold. It nearly always breaks. Taking off Rooney and Scholes was a bad move.

Couldn't believe how slow they were to chase in after Barthez was hit in the face from Vassell's shot,Vassell himself had just come on and stood still.:|

Ok Zidane has a free kick in injury time, if anyone has a brain they would have put a player on each post, so if it goes past the keeper then one of them can stop it.

Thats made my weekend.

Shit teams pack the box all the time to frustrate better sides. It's backs against the wall. It is stupid, in fact, because teams with England's quality would be much better playing their own game instead of letting France come onto them.

I hate the sitting back in your own box form of defending, ever since the day Davor Suker stuck one in against us in the 7th minute of injury time in a Euro 2000 qualifier, and when we threw away a lead in the last minute against Macedonia in the same group. Fortunately, we learned our lesson. England have to do the same now, or else they'll be fucked when they come up against other quality sides in the knock out stages.

Nah James didn't have a chance he didn't see it until it was on its way in

Yeah but then France can put Trezeguet on top of David James and he'll be onside, and they can swing it in on top of his head. Some dickhead in my team in uni tried going on the line and straight away the opposition swung it in to an unmarked player who would have been offside otherwise, and he scored.

I've always thought that was a stupid idea. Ron Atkinson used to argue for it all the time.

By the looks of things, England will have Spain in the Quarter Finals, I'd fancy them if they didn't lapse in concentration when it really matters.

Wanna hear my two cents? Good:

Erickson lost that game for us, Scholes and Rooney were playing well, two of our best players, and he brings on Heskey and Hargreaves, Heskey was hugely to blame for the first goal.

James did the right thing for the penalty, blame Stevie Gerrard, what was the dickhead thinking.

Lampard should have taken the penatly, sorry to sound bias towards my boys, but Lampard takes them for Chelsea and Beckham isn't the most reliable penalty taker, good save from Barthez though.

I called it as being 2-1 to France before the game, if only I had bet on it :'(.

Thats nice RBF, but your wrong, you see, Beckham does stupid things like against Turkey and today, Lampard does good things like scored against Given and Howard from the spot this season, think before you speak.

Barthez guessed right and pulled off a good save. If I was English, I'd be more inclined to be pissed off at Beckham for playing absolutely shite throughout the match. He's supposed to be one of the best in the world, he looked like a little boy out there.

I'd also be slightly annoyed at Rooney not squaring it for Vassell before that penalty, but he's young and he has big balls. It's good to see.

Yeah I have been saying for ages that Rooney is greedy, but if Silvestre hadn't fouled him then he would have been in just as good a position as Vassell, so you cant blame him for that.

It was a good save, but Becks could have hit it further over.

It was a good save, but it was the perfect height for him.

I come on here and I see most of you slagging off England. What the fuck, where's your fucking pride. We played great and were unlucky to lose. It was a great free kick but we got nervous at the end.
I'm proud of everyone of those players who played there hearts out for their country. The fans were great.
I'm still shocked at the result, seems like all a blur.
France were shite, our defence was great.
Now get behind the fucking team.

You have to be kidding, we got a 1-0 lead and then sat back for the rest of the game, barely even trying to break. You sit back when you have a comfortable lead.

Sorry I'm still a bit pissed off and pissed.
I agree it was wrong to sit back that much on a 1-0 lead but we played our hearts out.

Owen didn't :mad:

True.
Match is coming back to me more and more.Lol.
Was the service there to Owen though? He didn't have a good match, I'm hoping that he wants to prove that he's our best striker and tears apart Henchoz and co.

The service would be there if he ever tried losing his marker.

Lol, as I said let's hope he destroys the Swiss and makes this country happy.

I haven't had tears in my eyes in ages. I nearly hit some French person at my SU who in front of a bunch of England fans started to wavr his flag and singing songs against us.
What a dick, but I suppose I would have done the same if we had won.

Just letting you know, if I ever hear Tyldesley say "that night in Lisbon", all hell is gonna break loose :mad:

That was a crazy finish.

Most of the UK want to shoot him in the face, so your not alone in your hatred.

Nice to know I have allies :)

Damn Switzerland!
If Croatia can't beat Switzerland, then its got no chance to beat France and England.

Croatia <i>did</i> finish 3rd at the 1998 World Cup.

But then again, Holland came 4th and didn't even make the last one.

I forget what my point is. :o.

Yeah Tyldsley said 'Every manager and fan is the country is going to be saying 1-0 to Santini' fucking try and jinx us more you ManYoo supporting twat :mad:

After the match on Sky Sports News, Julian Walters reading out emails says "and this one is from Scotland - hahahahahahahahaha"

:lol:

It was so great seeing the English crying in the papers, making all the excuses in the book and fighting again. Stupid bastards.

From when they were calling England "the new Lisbon Lions", I wanted them to lose.

Said it before, said it last night to Owen and we'll keep on saying it - Erikkson hasn't got a clue. He is tactically naive. Aside from a double in Italy where he spent over £80 million in one year and nearly killed Lazio, he has done nothing in football. He can't be trusted. Remember whn he accepted the Blackburn job years ago only to go back on his word and bankrupt Lazio instead?

Don't care how well they played or how tired they were - If you take off 3 of your best 4 players against arguably the best team in the world, you're gonna pay. Do you think France would sub Henry, Zidane and Trez in the same position?

:y:

I predicted a Greece upset and didn't put money on that :$

Scholesy was injured, Owen was shit, but he should never have taken Rooney off.

Erikkson reminds me of Ranieri, tactically shit, only time he did anything at Chelsea was after spending over £100million.

Also, you saying you said it last night to 'Owen' makes it sound like you mean Michael Owen and not RBF.

Yeah sitting back was stupid, we were asking for trouble by relaxing on a one nil lead, we should only have done that had Beckham converted his penalty.

You can't judge teams because of one performance, OK I didn't see the game, but Croatia still worry me.

Denmark 0-0 Italy finished.

Much better game that the Croatia/Switzerland draw and Denmark were quite unlucky.Both keepers were class though.

This is LC. Yeah, today's game was alright, a few chances for each team and some nice saves by each keeper. I thought Italy would play a little better though. Well, at least I got to see the game and see one of my favorites(Vieri) :D

lol last night you all got to feel what it's like to be a Wolves fan every week :$ :'(

pretty boring games today

Ljungberg just put Sweden up 1-0

I said the same about Leicester.:'(

This game is turning out to be alright.Stoichkov said that Martin Petrov could be the new umm...Stoichkov, and he's looked quite good down the left.Sweden haven't looked as good defensively as normal but they have a good attack,i think them and Denmark are pretty underrated.

Yeah do you remember the time that with 20 minutes to go you were 2-1 up against Chelsea? And then we equalised, and then we scored again, and again and again, and won 5-2.

:D :rofl:

Sweden have played well, earlier on I tried to talk The Duck out of better on Larsson being the top goalscorer and Sweden qualifying from their group :$.

All you Man United/English fans now know what it must have been like for Bayern Munich in the Champions League Final 1999. I must say, I am so glad I am not English :) I would have felt like shit this morning.

I doubt it. If the reverse had happened in the CL final, I'd have been a lot more gutted than I was last night.

I realise it wasn't in the knockout stage so it's not so bad, but it still must be painful to lose like that when just a couple of minutes earlier you were looking forward to celebrate a victory over the 2nd best team in the world in a competitive match.

Its 2 "s" in Larsson

Rob Harvey is gonna be loving his Sweden prediction now

Well I'm not getting a hard on just yet over a 5-0 result. More of a semi :D

Not really. Man United pushed and battled and practically dominated that game for 89 minutes and deserved the win. England scored a goal and sat on it like Bayern did but remember this wasn't the final. England will still qualify. I think they could still make the semis.

hahaha

Latvia 1-0 Czech Republic at half time.I think Latvia have only had that one shot.

Isn't it ironic, when England play well like they did against France they end up loosing but then when they play teams like Slovakia and Macedonia they play rather poorly but they can still grind out results.

MY country is down. :'( :'(

LOL...i am going to win 200 euro's if Latvia wins :lol: :yes:

Did we watch the same game? Bayern were by a long, long way the better side in that final. They should have wrapped the game up. Effenberg hit the bar, from what I remember, and Scholl hit the post.

I certainly remember United being very poor in that final, Bayern just couldn't get a second goal and it cost them.

AWWWWWW FK, THEY HAD ONE DAMMIT. BAROŠ :mad:

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL MOTHER FK'ERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

CZECHS: 2
Latvia: 1

PHEW

lol, good game. Really exciting at the end.

Come on Latvia, not that I like them but I have said all along that the Czech's suck, you would have all believed me if they lost. I know they have been the better team but have been really piss poor at finishing, Baros missed a sitter, Nedved had a cracker which the keeper saved, but Koller has been shit. Still, the Czech's aint going through, sorry to dissapoint. I wouldn't be suprised if they cam above Holland and qualifyed, because Holland are also shit, but I think the Czech's are worse.

Dazz Germany are crap.

Fuck...well no money then :(

Lets see Holland vs Germany :-\


I say 1-1

Danny Electric, you know you are wrong.

If Germany win tonight I'll apologise but without a player like Deisler I don't see them doing much.
Ballack has also had a bad season.

What a shit goal. :(

Lol, how ugly is Jonny Heltinga.

LOL I was thinking the same thing bout Hetlinga, I only noticed it after they gave away the second free kick in a similar position to the first.

Both teams should go through no problem if they play like they did today. There wasn't much in the game and it was a fair result.

Lol, it's the same time I thought it.

Germany really suprised me, and I thought Holland were truly average.

If the Czech's can put the ball in the net next time, I'd expect them to go through. Besides, they have to beat one of them, and they're through.

Czech's arent going through based on a performance like today, Pborbsky can't carry them through single handedly.

Holland were shit first half, but once Van Hjodoink came on he turned it around, they are blatently going to start with Nistelrooy and Hjoidoink up front, and if they play Overmars and Zenden as wingers (one will have to play right wing obviously, I am aware they are both left wingers) and have Davids and Van Der Vaart (cheater) in the centre, they have a good team attacking. Stam is abit dodgy but he gets away with it.

Germany played well, and if that 19 year old (came on as a sub) would pass abit more he would be the man. I would be shocked if Germany didn't qualify.

Yeah I thought the same thing about the German kid, he was great but he tried to do too much most of the time.

Zenden is just a shit player.

At times.

:love:

The Czech's won, which is the main thing.Germany surprised me a bit, but i still think they'll lose to the Czech Republic.

Portugal could be out today.:o

spain are 1-0 up and mick mccarthy is an utter cock.

http://69.9.37.162/dry-your-eyes-becks.mp3

LOL roy keane phoning beckham after the france match :'(

Spain have been pretty good so far.

Greece :eek:

i bet yianni and kid robb are beating the piss out of each other right now :'(

The "Grecians" have deserved it ;)

THEO

Finished 1-1.Great stuff.COME ON GREECE

Only thing i don't like about them is the way they milk injuries,and players going down under minimal contact if they seem in trouble.:-\

Like the Spanish or Italians or Germans don't do the same. I don't like it either but it's amusing watch those lot cry and moan over people playing them at their own game.

The Spaniards,Italians and Germans don't do that though.They dive and everything but there is at least some contact,on at least one occasion a Greek player went down in the box having cleared the ball,just to calm the threat.On the close up of that incident there was no contact at all.

You mentioned them milking injuries and going down under minimal contact and that is EXACTLY what the Germans, Italians and Spanish do.