Euro 2020(21)

[Chairman Meow]

Tried watching some of Finland and Russia, shit game, really unentertaining an commentated on by some woman who is doing her level best to prove that women are every bit as capable as men at being shit at commentating on football with Martin Keown spouting inane clueless bollocks alongside it. Then half time it's expert analysis from Micah Richards then cut to Robbie Savage.

 

It's unwatchable if you have any sound on. 

 

Is there some rule in the tv agreements that makes it compulsory for them to employ the thickest and/or most boring sounding ex-players?

[s(k)aturation]

19 minutes ago, SasaS said:

They were both Communists, but Tito opened the borders relatively early in his rule, which was a major thing, and was overall less brutal (once his position was secure) and less dogmatic (once he began flirting with the West).

 

Yeah, but his jails were always full to the brim... because he'd hardly have got tea and scones at Buckingham Palace - which the cunt loved, along with his honorary knighthood - if he'd knocked off people, post-1945, with the murderous indifference he did prior to '45.

 

Mind you, he needn't have worried.  

Churchill proved to Lillie-Bet's Dad at Bleiburg that Slavic lives were worth fuck-all in the scheme of more pressing things....

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jockey]

7 minutes ago, SasaS said:

They were both Communists, but Tito opened the borders relatively early in his rule, which was a major thing, and was overall less brutal (once his position was secure) and less dogmatic (once he began flirting with the West).

 

I think Russia's actions in Yugoslavia wars were always more about the big anti-NATO picture than they were specifically pro-Serbian. They were involved on the ground in the Kosovo crisis when they quickly moved in some paras of their own to stop James Blunt from feeling too safe in his tank. 

Hmm  - I think there was a lot more than that early on. Tito thought Russia was going to invade and yes, he was less dogmatic - basically Yugoslavia were a non-Stallinist country. They did help as part of the Nato force, but they didn't initially want NATO to get involved. This may not lead to hate but, not sure they would be liked for that. Kosovo was Albanian really wasn't it? And of course Bosnia, who got the worst. 

[Chairman Meow]

20 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Luckily, I’ve got the Coronation Street 2000-2009 boxset still to watch.

 

"Classic Coronation Street" available on ITV 3 right now Tone. 

[SasaS]

15 minutes ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

Yeah, but his jails were always full to the brim... because he'd hardly have got tea and scones at Buckingham Palace - which the cunt loved along with his honorary knighthood - if he'd knocked off people, post-1945, with the murderous indifference he did prior to '45.

 

Mind you, he needn't have worried.  

Churchill proved to Lilly-Bet's Dad at Bleiburg that Slavic lives were worth fuck-all in the scheme of more pressing things....

 

Repression was often cyclical, there were obviously mass killings and ethnic cleansing immediately post-war, then purges during the pressure from Stalin (which were often intra-Communist affairs), but there was also generally and progressively less of a clampdown outside big events such as suppressing Croatia's national awakening in 1971, or Serbian liberals a couple years earlier.

 

Tito was always more interested in removing potential challengers from within, than in dogmatic socialism, so he would often sack the people demanding reforms and then implement most of the reforms the following year anyway. 

[s(k)aturation]

5 minutes ago, SasaS said:

progressively less of a clampdown outside big events such as suppressing Croatia's national awakening in 1971.... Tito was always more interested in removing potential challengers from within, than in dogmatic socialism, so he would often sack the people demanding reforms and then implement most of the reforms the following year anyway. 

 

Yes, the plagiaristic krmak set things up nicely for 1991 and all that.

 

 

[SasaS]

23 minutes ago, Jockey said:

Hmm  - I think there was a lot more than that early on. Tito thought Russia was going to invade and yes, he was less dogmatic - basically Yugoslavia were a non-Stallinist country. They did help as part of the Nato force, but they didn't initially want NATO to get involved. This may not lead to hate but, not sure they would be liked for that. Kosovo was Albanian really wasn't it? And of course Bosnia, who got the worst. 

You've just pushed a dagger through every Serbian heart.

[polymerpunkah]

Great save to keep the Finns in the match.

 

 

[SasaS]

Finland don't look like they will be scoring any more goals this tournament.

[s(k)aturation]

24 minutes ago, SasaS said:

You've just pushed a dagger through every Serbian heart.

They've always wanted stuff that wasn't theirs, and they get - or don't get - what they deserve.

 

 

[SasaS]

Was that the worst game so far?

[s(k)aturation]

9 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Was that the worst game so far?

 

Yep.

Nice goal though...

 

 

 

 

 

[DJLJ]

22 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Was that the worst game so far?

One where a person dies on the pitch, seems a bit worse, to be fair.

[s(k)aturation]

1 minute ago, DJLJ said:

One where a person dies on the pitch, seems a bit worse, to be fair.

Heaven forbid, I think to also be fair, that dispassionate Ruritanian lad SasaS was referring to football, rather than matters of the heart.

 

 

[SasaS]

21 minutes ago, DJLJ said:

One where a person dies on the pitch, seems a bit worse, to be fair.

That one was definitely more engaging for the neutrals.

Is this result seen as good or bad for Denmark?

[Captain Turdseye]

I fucking hate Turkey, me. 
 

I’ve decided that I’m Welsh this afternoon. 

[Davelfc]

8 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I fucking hate Turkey, me. 
 

I’ve decided that I’m Welsh this afternoon. 

It's a close one, can they both lose?

[s(k)aturation]

11 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I fucking hate Turkey, me. 
 

I’ve decided that I’m Welsh this afternoon. 

 

As well as fucking Canadian, CT?  

Make up your mind, you 100 maple leek carrot cunt.

 

 

[Jockey]

How the fuck did Australia qualify for this tournament?

[Davelfc]

Just now, Jockey said:

How the fuck did Australia qualify for this tournament?

Was about to say something similar.

[Gnasher]

Settling down to watch the tournament winners here, don't know where they found the Brazil strip though.

[s(k)aturation]

 

If you're still living in Hannover in 1974, it's all perfectly explicable. 

[dandyman]

1 minute ago, Jockey said:

How the fuck did Australia qualify for this tournament?

Looking a bit Us v Norwich based on kits

[Trumo]

1 minute ago, Jockey said:

How the fuck did Australia qualify for this tournament?

 

It was a singing contest until someone decided to make it about football.

[s(k)aturation]

Just now, Trumo said:

 

It was a singing contest until someone decided to make it about football.

 

 

Do you remember, nothing stopped us on the field in our day...