Euro 2016 Round Up (Final)

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You probably won’t believe this, but I genuinely took no pleasure from Ronaldo going off injured in the final. None at all. Of course I was desperately hoping to see him lose, I would have loved to see him miss a penalty and I’d have been delighted to see him have an absolute stinker and leave the field in floods of tears.
 
I didn’t want to see him go off injured though as it took something away from the game, and not just the opportunity to laugh at him missing chances and then bollocking poor old Nani to deflect the blame elsewhere. 
 
For it to happen so early in the game made it even worse, but it was obvious when it happened that he was in big trouble. Payet’s challenge was a fair one but you could see from the impact on Ronaldo’s knee that there was ligament damage. He tried to run it off but couldn’t break into a full sprint and his final act was to not get off the floor when attacking a cross. Clearly he couldn’t continue, but why is he going off on a stretcher? 
 
That’s a rhetorical question, we all know why - because he’s a friggin’ bad drama queen. Ok, he obviously couldn’t carry on and there is no question that he’s damaged his knee, probably seriously, but if he could still run with a limp then he could certainly walk off the field. Yet instead he goes off on a stretcher, crying his eyes out. You only do that if it’s a broken leg and you can’t walk, or if the knee has given way completely and you can’t put any weight on it. 
 
Neither applied in this case, as we saw later when he was bouncing around from one team-mate to another before extra time, giving them pep talks. Oh NOW you want to be nice to them? Apparently he gave an incredible speech at half time too. Love how he can be “Mr Team First Guy” when he realises he’s utterly helpless and totally reliant on these fuckers he’s been berating for years for not being good enough to share the same field as him.

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[Tony Moanero]

Load of shite.

[Russ Atmosphere]

 

 

Chump of the tournament: 1 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 2 Joe Hart, 3 Simone Zaza

 

[Tatty Lashes]

Couldn't see this or the semi-final one " [#10CCS21]

We could not find the article you were attempting to view." Sort it out please, ta.

[Trumo]

France should have started with Kante as the DM, with Pogba/Sissoko and Matuidi either side in more advanced positions as part of a midfield 3. Sissoko would likely have been the one to miss out in favour of Pogba but it would have given the French midfield the right balance as well as utilising all 3 midfielders in their optimum roles. Matuidi is left footed and extremely consistent so having him in there and able to cover when Evra pushes forward and Payet drifts infield again would have helped with balance.

 

Deschamps - by going with Pogba, Matuidi and Sissoko in midfield - stifled his own team because both Matuidi and especially Pogba were playing with the reins on. France only had Sissoko able to link up with the attack and break powerfully from midfield when they could have had 2 players doing that.

[Bamo]

"Southampton lad did really well". We bought him yet?

[buster69]

Hamsik Dave? I thought he was up there with Zlatan on your "I've never seen him do it"-ometer?

[Lisa]

I had Portugal in the office sweepstake, so I am quite happy!  I was a little disappointed there was no mention of the moth on Ronaldo's face in the match report. 

[buster69]

That injury last night was an unbelievable bit of PR for Ronaldo. The amount of people that have come out in support of him since is incredible. With that and Messi's tax avoision case, it's been a great week for him.

 

I wonder will he still be as popular in January when he wins the Ballon D'or "because he won the 2 biggest trophies"? Then he'll launch out a massive "Siiiii!!!!!" and people will remember "Ah yes, he's a cunt isn't he?"

[buster69]

[dave u]

Hamsik Dave? I thought he was up there with Zlatan on your "I've never seen him do it"-ometer?

 

He was, along with Ribery and a few others. He did alright in this tournament though.

 

I had Portugal in the office sweepstake, so I am quite happy!  I was a little disappointed there was no mention of the moth on Ronaldo's face in the match report. 

 

I totally forgot about it when I was writing it, but that's probably my brain blocking it out because it reminded me of something that still freaks me out....

 

[Pureblood]

Argh!

[Whelan5]

Toni Kroos !!! Really?