Euro 2020(21)

[SasaS]

They would have won if Orban didn't fuck up. Typical.

[s(k)aturation]

45 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

We went to Budapest for our game v Debrecen. We’d mentioned a few times between ourselves they sided with the Nazis in WW2 but nothing more.

 

We were in a bar one afternoon and taking to a few locals. One of them was loving a few beers and clearly up for a session. He had his bird with him who looked like a chubby Abi Titmus.

 

Anyway, fast forward an hour or so and we’re talking about nothing, definitely not the Nazi’s and this blokes just shouted “I FEEL I MUST APOLOGISE FOR OUR BEHAVIOUR IN THE WAR”.

 

Alright pal.

 

Also the trip where I was that drunk at the match I had to ask my mate what colour we were playing in, about 10 mins David N’gog had given us the lead and we went to a spa and I got a boner that wouldn’t quit, must have been the site of all those old men in Speedo’s sagging everywhere. 

 

I went to the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest in 1989, on a road trip with my cousins from relatively nearby Osijek in Croatia.

 

We got there the night before and Budapest was rocking.

Naively, we rocked up to the Budapest Hyatt (I think it was) for a drink and maybe food, all of us in jeans and t-shirts.

Anyway, once I had a quick look at the price, I suggested we stay there for a full, silver service dinner.

The 8 or 10 of us sat at a big round table, a bloke with a trolley and in a dinner suit came round the table offering and continuously refilling glasses of Johnny Waller Black Label.

I can't remember how many courses and drinks we had, many many I know that much, but I do recall beautiful char-grilled chateaubriand steak being generously sliced as the main.

A 3 or 4 hour top shelf food and drink session cost us $US20 each.  Just 20 fucking dollars.

The two blokes who could drive, barely, drove us out to the Hungaroring, where we planned to just sleep in the hinterland grass or in the cars.

On a dirt road by the circuit, nearing our "campsite", we happened upon a couple mid-Friar Tuck... the both of them froze in the headlights of our car, the guy obviously on the cusp of the vinegar stroke.

Next day, we paid a fiver at the gate to get in, watched Mansell reel in Senna and Prost from 12th on the grid to win, and smoked as many free Malboro Reds as the stupendously gorgeous local Malboro girls could shove down our throats.

My handsome cousin tried his best, for the better part of an hour in the car, to sweet talk one of the Marlboro lasses into letting him put something down her Gregory Peck.

To no avail.

So he politely escorted her back to the circuit.

And chivalry wasn't dead.

 

 

[Elite]

Having 4 3rd place teams qualify has completely ruined the group stages for me, feels like most of the games are a bit pointless, the knockout rounds can't come quick enough.

 

[SasaS]

36 minutes ago, polymerpunkah said:

Setting aside the potential for hundreds or thousands of infections resulting from it, a full house does definitely add to the quality of a match, even watching on TV.

There was something like 600 cases today in the entire region of Hungary plus all neighbouring countries / roughly the population of UK. If they asked for vaccination certificates, they will be fine.

 

EDIT: plus a 1000 in Ukraine (another 40 to 45 mil)

[s(k)aturation]

4 minutes ago, Elite said:

Having 4 3rd place teams qualify has completely ruined the group stages for me, feels like most of the games are a bit pointless, the knockout rounds can't come quick enough.

 

 

Yeah, only 8 teams eliminated out of 24 is considerable ado about nowt.

 

 

[Elite]

Just now, s(k)aturation said:

 

I forget how many team there are in all, 24?

 

 

Yeah. 16 teams to go through from the group stages. Ridiculous.

[s(k)aturation]

2 minutes ago, Elite said:

Yeah. 16 teams to go through from the group stages. Ridiculous.

 

Cheers, adjusted my above post just before - to reflect your point of pointlessness.

 

I guess the drama is among the "bottom 12" where only 4 survive.

 

[Scott_M]

5 minutes ago, Elite said:

Having 4 3rd place teams qualify has completely ruined the group stages for me, feels like most of the games are a bit pointless, the knockout rounds can't come quick enough.

 

 

While true, you should qualify because you're good not because you're less shit, it's looking like every team can qualify next week.

[SasaS]

They had an ideal 16 teams format, but they had to go and fuck it up so everyone can qualify.

[s(k)aturation]

Just now, SasaS said:

They had an ideal 16 teams format, but they had to go and fuck it up so everyone can qualify.

 

Postmen in Gibraltar need to have a dream.

 

 

[Chairman Meow]

20 minutes ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

Next day, we paid a fiver at the gate to get in, watched Mansell reel in Senna and Prost from 12th on the grid to win, and smoked as many free Malboro Reds as the stupendously gorgeous local Malboro girls could shove down our throats.

 

 

Tobacco advertising in motorsport is much missed. Some of the best liveries we ever had and they also chucked a shed load into lower levels of the sport  as well.

 

Even as a kid seeing all of the Marlboro girls in the national championship rounds or the Rothmans ones on the Manx rallies was a treat. I had no idea what I wanted to do with them as I was too young, but I instinctively knew I wanted to do something. 

[SasaS]

Just now, s(k)aturation said:

 

Postmen in Gibraltar need to have a dream.

 

 

Iceland + Norway, both Irelands and most of Balkans minus Macedonia, everybody else is here.

[Chairman Meow]

5 minutes ago, SasaS said:

They had an ideal 16 teams format, but they had to go and fuck it up so everyone can qualify.

It wouldn't be so bad if the football was actually decent, but they are just adding more and more shit games in the hope of dragging more cash out of it.

 

Same as all the champions league expansion bullshit. 

[s(k)aturation]

7 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Iceland + Norway, both Irelands and most of Balkans minus Macedonia, everybody else is here.

 

Yeah, I'm surprised Čelik and Željezničar missed out.

[s(k)aturation]

 

UBER ALLES

 

 

[Heinze]

Another english ref to fuck this match up.

[J-V]

Nice goal.

 

Edit: Offside Gnabry

[polymerpunkah]

Brilliant finish, but hand-ball in the build up?

 

Offside instead.

 

 

 

[Scott_M]

Offside. Didn’t need the lines to see that.

 

Cracking non-goal though. 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

Portugal starting the two useless obelisks at CM. 

[3 Stacks]

Euro 2020 is Anthony Taylor's apex.

[J-V]

Fuckers

[Pete]

Cunt.

[Heinze]

All Jota.

[Ne Moe Imya]

I have the worst luck turning on football games. Switch it on and the rapist scores almost immediately. Ugh.