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  • Nunu3Nunu3 Posts: 224
    RobD said:

    kle4 said:

    Scott_xP said:

    BoZo would absolutely support the other home nations...



    Twat

    He probably would support them (inasmuch as he gives a crap about football, which I doubt is very much), he probably supports England more though.

    I cannot work out if you would be furious or not if he had worn a non-English shirt at some point though. "He has no right to wear that, the twat, he's expressing dominance of England!"
    Scott is easily triggered these days.
    Of course, Brexit Britain is not the disaster je wanted it to be.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    That 5.5 looking a sound investment.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,541
    Who committed the fowl?
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,009
    Sophisticated crime dramas and quality free kicks.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    How did Kaspar save that !?
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,009
    FFS
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,350
    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397
    Save and a half.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    STERLING !!!
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397
    Yep.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    Keep calm.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,009
    Pulpstar said:

    I think you're all overreacting, England should get back in this. The Danish goal was a thing of beauty though

    You weren't wrong!
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,811
    Game on!
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Own goal not Sterling?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397

    STERLING !!!

    Own goal that.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,541
    Own goal by Denmark.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,615
    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    A poultry allegation.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,169
    Pulpstar said:

    I think you're all overreacting, England should get back in this. The Danish goal was a thing of beauty though

    There.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    edited July 2021
    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397
    Great game now.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,541
    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,350
    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    I think you're all overreacting, England should get back in this. The Danish goal was a thing of beauty though

    There.
    As I said, 3-1 to England.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,350
    Andy_JS said:

    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
    Only a wine.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,041
    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
    Bit of a stretch in the current game ?
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,547
    Leon said:

    Denmark will probably thrash the knee-takers now

    England are now going to skin them like a House Bolton sigil.....
  • Black_RookBlack_Rook Posts: 8,905
    The relief is temporary. The defeat will still happen.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
    Kinda.

    "I wonder if you can help me," asks Aladair Maughan. "I remember reading about a match being played in an African cup competition (I think) where both teams were trying to score own goals in order to try to make/try to prevent the game from going into extra time and being won on a golden goal. Does anyone know the exact details of this, or if it's just an urban myth?

    It might sound like an urban myth, Alasdair, but it's (almost) 100% true. The crazy events you describe took place in a Shell Caribbean Cup match between Barbados and Grenada in 1994.

    Going into the last group game Barbados needed to beat Grenada by two goals to qualify for the final stages. Anything less and Grenada went through.

    So far, so simple. Except that the organisers had decided that, in the case of extra time, a golden goal would count as two goals.

    You don't have to be Einstein to work out what happened next. Barbados raced to a 2-0 lead before Grenada made it 2-1 with seven minutes remaining. The Barjans were heading out unless they scored a goal; any goal.

    Fortunately for them, with three minutes left, they did just that - only not in the right net. Their deliberate own goal made it 2-2 and propelled the game towards extra time.

    Now, farcically, Grenada needed to score a goal (at either end) to go through. Cue frantic defending of both penalty areas by Barbados until the final whistle.

    Such dubious shenanigans were rewarded, however, when Barbados scored the golden goal - this time in Grenada's net - four minutes into extra time to win the match 3-2 (or 4-2 according to the rules of the tournament) and qualify for the finals.


    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2002/mar/28/theknowledge.sport
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 3,883
    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
    Unlikely, extra time is in Head to Heads not leagues
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
    I had never heard of that one, but I believe its said that a team once deliberately let the other team equalise in order to knock out a rival from the group stage knowing they needed a draw for both clubs to proceed, which is why final group stage games are played simultaneously now.
  • borisatsunborisatsun Posts: 188

    How did Kaspar save that !?

    Sterling found the exact centre of his body..
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    At least it is a more entertaining match so far than you’d expect from England and Denmark
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,169
    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
    I can't think when that could ever be neccesary. Extra time is a knockout mechanism; goals for a league one
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,615
    Andy_JS said:

    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
    No, just a nugget of information.
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 3,883

    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    Sporting of the Danes to score at both ends

    Wasn’t there a team once that deliberately scored an own goal to take a match to extra time so they could improve the goals scored criteria?
    I had never heard of that one, but I believe its said that a team once deliberately let the other team equalise in order to knock out a rival from the group stage knowing they needed a draw for both clubs to proceed, which is why final group stage games are played simultaneously now.
    Yes, it was West Germany v Austria in 82. Sadly Algeria was the victim
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 63,012
    My main concern is Pickford

    He does not fill me with confidence
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Foxy said:

    Andy_JS said:

    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
    No, just a nugget of information.
    Good to keep a breast of the situation.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,361

    My main concern is Pickford

    He does not fill me with confidence

    Frank Spencer would be as good
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 3,883
    Foxy said:

    Andy_JS said:

    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
    No, just a nugget of information.
    the last goal was a McFlurry in the goalmouth...
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 63,012
    IanB2 said:

    My main concern is Pickford

    He does not fill me with confidence

    You’ll vote for him in the end…
    You are quite ridiculous
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Floater said:

    Floater said:

    O/t - when do we think all people in UK will have been offered 2nd dose?

    My employer has just told all staff no one needs to enter one of our offices until that time.

    So just wondering what that means realistically

    September.
    Cheers - even then it looks like 50% occupancy only
    We’ve gone for post Labour day (7 Sep)
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,978
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,576
    The one they scored at the right end was spectacular.
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 3,883

    Foxy said:

    Andy_JS said:

    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
    No, just a nugget of information.
    Good to keep a breast of the situation.
    ...a nice juicy piece of thigh...
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397

    My main concern is Pickford

    He does not fill me with confidence

    Welcome to my football life.
    PS. Pickford just broke Gordon Banks' record. 821 minutes without conceding.
    By about a minute.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,522
    7.8 on Denmark at Betfair looks like a value bet to me.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    edited July 2021

    Foxy said:

    Andy_JS said:

    ydoethur said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Who committed the fowl?

    Somebody who chickened out.
    Do you have a sauce for that?
    No, just a nugget of information.
    Good to keep a breast of the situation.
    ...a nice juicy piece of thigh...
    But all coq and no vin
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,231
    FFS
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    Sandpit said:

    The one they scored at the right end was spectacular.

    It should have been disallowed.

    The Danish players encroached within a metre of the England wall.

    Against the rules.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    This, just this

    https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1412845703936806917

    Please God. Just this once. One final. That’s all.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 8,721

    My main concern is Pickford

    He does not fill me with confidence

    Won't hear a word said against our secret weapon

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAe5s-7t1mg
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,350
    Charles said:

    Floater said:

    Floater said:

    O/t - when do we think all people in UK will have been offered 2nd dose?

    My employer has just told all staff no one needs to enter one of our offices until that time.

    So just wondering what that means realistically

    September.
    Cheers - even then it looks like 50% occupancy only
    We’ve gone for post Labour day (7 Sep)
    I have always refrained from making any pun on your surname, as a matter of courtesy.

    But bloody hell, sometimes you test that resolution to its limits...
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368
    Scott_xP said:
    No shirt, no flag, no effort from Starmer.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,231
    Psychologically England will be in the slightly better place. It’s nicer to equalise than the reverse.

    BUT Pickford, hmm
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,978

    No shirt, no flag, no effort from Starmer.

    Probably explains this...

    If you want to know self-defeating, our CLP has tabled a vote of no confidence in Starmer for tonight during the match.

    https://twitter.com/remainwithkate/status/1412844441992413201
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,541
    On topic, the problem with the Batley & Spen betting market was a lack of liquidity.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,402
    I haven't been this worried about a semi since I watched that Madeline McCann documentary.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,926

    I haven't been this worried about a semi since I watched that Madeline McCann documentary.

    Off to ConHome with you.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    A long 45 minutes waiting for another own goal
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611

    I haven't been this worried about a semi since I watched that Madeline McCann documentary.

    You are a bad man.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,361

    I haven't been this worried about a semi since I watched that Madeline McCann documentary.

    That’s terrible !!
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 63,012
    What a save

    Great keeper !!!!!!!!!!!
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,098
    Floater said:

    This, just this

    https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1412845703936806917

    Please God. Just this once. One final. That’s all.

    Yep - that's all I want. Final.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    edited July 2021

    What a save

    Great keeper !!!!!!!!!!!

    :)

    My predictions don’t normally come good quite so quickly.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,046
    Pulpstar said:

    I think you're all overreacting, England should get back in this. The Danish goal was a thing of beauty though

    PB, overreacting? Doesn't sound very probable to me.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 63,012
    IanB2 said:

    What a save

    Great keeper !!!!!!!!!!!

    :)

    My predictions don’t normally come good quite so quickly.
    I thought you would like it
  • Kane staying out of the box
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    I haven't been this worried about a semi since I watched that Madeline McCann documentary.

    The three year old probable rape and murder victim?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397
    Some save Schmeichel.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,169
    Schmeichel his father's son tonight
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,576
    edited July 2021
    Pulpstar said:

    Schmeichel his father's son tonight

    Sadly yes. That was a great save.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397
    edited July 2021
    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?
    They are usually dull, or one-sided. Or both.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,615
    Pulpstar said:

    Schmeichel his father's son tonight

    Kasper has made his own reputation. No longer living off his dad's
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,615
    dixiedean said:

    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?
    They are usually dull, or one-sided. Or both.

    2018 World Cup?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,859
    dixiedean said:

    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?

    The semi I remember is Italy Germany in 2006, I think it was. We were staying in an Italian hotel in the lakes, full of German guests, and in the TV room it was the staff and us cheering for the Italians with all the other guests supporting Germany. Italy won after a terrific match and within minutes of the final whistle the town went wild with cheering fans and hooting motorists.

    By the final we were back home and as I recall it was a disappointing match by comparison.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,522
    edited July 2021
    A full time tie (before extra time) now the clear favourite on BF. I think it's more likely to tip either way - lots of chances both ways.
  • ThomasNasheThomasNashe Posts: 5,331
    dixiedean said:

    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?
    They are usually dull, or one-sided. Or both.

    Spain 1982. Best two semi-finals of all time.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,797
    Why Saka and not Mount??? Just weird.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611

    dixiedean said:

    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?
    They are usually dull, or one-sided. Or both.

    Spain 1982. Best two semi-finals of all time.
    Not if you were Patrick Battiston.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,983
    Very unnerving tonight. The pub at the bottom of the garden has live TV on a big screen. We are watching at home on streaming. They are about a minute ahead of us so we know in advance what’s going to happen from the cheering or groaning.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,615
    Grealish dives with the best of them.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,397

    dixiedean said:

    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?
    They are usually dull, or one-sided. Or both.

    Spain 1982. Best two semi-finals of all time.
    Watched that Germany France semi in the morning in San Diego with my first experience of Mexican commentary.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,522
    Betfair suspended - is that usual in the last stretch?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    Friend in Dubai says there has been a massive explosion.
  • borisatsunborisatsun Posts: 188
    Penalty, surely..
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,615
    Foxy said:

    Grealish dives with the best of them.

    Kane too.

    Are we Italy in disguise?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,926
    edited July 2021

    Friend in Dubai says there has been a massive explosion.

    https://twitter.com/DavidJamesHood/status/1412864515285217280/photo/1

    oil tanker by the sounds of it.
  • ThomasNasheThomasNashe Posts: 5,331
    dixiedean said:

    dixiedean said:

    This is an excellent game. Have there ever been 2 exciting, and well-matched semi finals in the same tournament?
    They are usually dull, or one-sided. Or both.

    Spain 1982. Best two semi-finals of all time.
    Watched that Germany France semi in the morning in San Diego with my first experience of Mexican commentary.
    And just to add though the final was not as good, Tardelli gave us the best goal celebration of all time.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    RobD said:

    Friend in Dubai says there has been a massive explosion.

    https://twitter.com/DavidJamesHood/status/1412864515285217280/photo/1

    oil tanker by the sounds of it.
    Cheers.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,402
    edited July 2021
    Foxy said:

    Foxy said:

    Grealish dives with the best of them.

    Kane too.

    Are we Italy in disguise?
    The reward (a penalty) is so high in the box - 75-80% chance of scoring? - that it's far too tempting to resist.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,046
    I'm against diving in an abstract sense.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,576
    RobD said:

    Friend in Dubai says there has been a massive explosion.

    https://twitter.com/DavidJamesHood/status/1412864515285217280/photo/1

    oil tanker by the sounds of it.
    Whoa. I’m about 10 miles from there.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,402
    When do Denmark bring on Mads Mikkelsen?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    Logging into http://ancestry.nl to check the ref's great grandparents' background

    https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1412872149187104769
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    Sandpit said:

    RobD said:

    Friend in Dubai says there has been a massive explosion.

    https://twitter.com/DavidJamesHood/status/1412864515285217280/photo/1

    oil tanker by the sounds of it.
    Whoa. I’m about 10 miles from there.
    My friend said it knocked his glass of water* out of his hand.

    *May have been an alcoholic drink that looks like water.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,978

    Logging into http://ancestry.nl to check the ref's great grandparents' background

    https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1412872149187104769

    ...
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,870
    kle4 said:

    That is a stark table. Sometimes people don't know jack.

    MaxPB said:

    Leon said:

    Another fucking winter of this lockdown shitefest. Is intolerable

    Where do we go to escape? I’m just not suffering another. I’ll do myself in

    Thailand is likely off limits. Ditto Oz

    Hmmm

    I think by the time we get there the resistance to another lockdown will be massive and, tbh, with a booster programme I'd be surprised if we needed one.
    It's amazing how people pour scorn and vitriol on libertarians on the one hand and rely on them to lead the fight against authoritarianism with the other.
    That's not amazing - there's a time and place for anything, and the stereotype rails against even sensible or proportionate measures or rules out of some kneejerk philosophical position (which like any such position, doesn't do so well judged against reality not theory). But clearly there is a time when the mass of people rely on such awkwardness to defend against threats that will affect them but they don't care enough about.

    The difficulty is identifying where the line is. Automatically railing against anything is not the answer, nor is automatically defending something.
    I have certainly poured scorn on contrarian and definitely justly, he was promoting that woman who claimed the ifr was about 0.1% when it would have meant to get our deaths 40 million would have been infected. He got debunked next night he would post the same crap. Contrarian isn't a libertarian he is an idiot
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,611
    Oh for Ally McCoist and Clive Tyldesley commentating on this match.
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