Wellred93

Do we really want to have this conversation on you're average travelling England 'fan?'

Leave it alone lid.

Hail.

Would it not be a question of how many Chelsea or millwall fans travel rather than the average england fan!

Good start to the game. Think this game will all be about payet. France are going to need him to unlock the Romanian defence.

Side note don't think the tournament song is up to much!(not that they usually are but had high hopes for France after the France 98 song which was cracking)

Excited for some football beats having to read about transfer rumours. Got my bets on went with a fiver Austria to win at 40/1 and a fiver on lewandowiski to be top goalscorer at 14/1.

Im excited. And a little amused at Southampton fans. Everton isnt the biggest of clubs, but the insinuation by some fans and former players that they are bigger than Everton is laughable. Some commentator even hinted that since Southampton finished above us they are a bigger club. Which of course means Leicester City is bigger than every other club in the EPL.

Southampton has a ways to go.

Anyways, now the question is will he have a 100 million transfer budget or 100 million + Lukaku's sale price.

Depends how big of a war chest Koeman gets, always skeptical of amounts thrown about by the press, to me this seems like a sideways move as both are a teams similar size and have a similar ceiling.

And this abomination is next years Premier League ball:

Seriously. Modern day footie man ..... And Nike be paid a ridiculous amount to come up with that rubbish.

Maybe the EPL is going all 'gay pride' with a 'gay' ball?!!!!!

Hail.

*Edit*

This. THIS is a football! :

#bringbackadidastangos

My biggest gripe with this sort of thing is luminous coloured boots, more specifically defenders that wear them! And buying boots, standard black boots are like £30 more expensive.

Also fra dunno why we have a horrendous away top had a run of putting pink in our away tops must a fashion thing.

Just in case anyone was in any doubt that this dude is a TRUE scot!

Hail.

Without wanting to turn this into an episode of who do you think you are I'm actually half English! Just an attempt at light humour!

As for France even missing those players can still have a back 4 of sagna dignity rami and koscielny. Which is a solid international back 4. And kante can replace diarra in midfield. France are my favourites though only because Germany are looking out of sorts.

This Belgium 'Golden Generation' be like the English one ultimately. Nowhere near winning anything. A collection of talented individuals but not a team with ego's that make the Dutch of the past look positively angelic.

Hail.

Maybe but they do have time on their side and had a good World Cup. Also don't think any national team can be more dysfunctional than the Dutch!

Should be a good euros though lot of teams that have a solid team and then one good attacking threat that they are built around.

Chosen hungry and Slovakia as my teams to support apart ABE of course

A few months back I was having trouble splitting you, Germany and Spain.

Now I have trouble seeing Les Bleus getting beyond the quarters at best.

Hail.

France are my favourites to win the euros. Home-field advantage and with Germany on a poor run of form, they are the most complete team. Belgium are my dark horse, of sorts, a lot of talent in that squad they just need to put it all together.

Almost there gents. Worst two weeks of the year, but thankfully we have a couple of tourneys this summer to get us through.

This is where u need to take up following tennis in the years without football(soccer) the French open and Wimbledon fill the void. I do like the off season as transfers rumours are the laziest thing ever. Case in point every player in Germany being linked with pool and every non juve player in Italy being linked with chelski

i have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds fascinating. Care to inform the uninformed?

It's Karim benzema.

Mainly remember that cheating little ****e Rivaldo against Turkey.

Hail.

Haha that was the worst dive of all time. But you did have kaka, Ronaldinho, cafu, Roberto Carlos and striker Ronaldo with his vagina haircut.

Always thought the GG 'experiment' made teams even more defensive and cautious the nearer the end the game got as nobody wanted to make the mistake to end it.

Hail.

Funny my recollection is it encouraged the underdog to come out and attack and not settle for penatlies. But that might just be me remembering the South Korea Italy game in 2002

Edit how good was that Brazil team at that World Cup would have beaten the late 2000s Spanish team in my opinion.

Wish they'd bring back golden goal would stop the last 10 mins of extra time being a non event. Going to say real win 4-3 on pens.

Fully deserved equaliser. The atrackimg change half time has complerey flipped the game.

Very enjoyable game this. MUCH better than the last time in Lisbon.

Hail.

Yeah reminds me of this years superbowl it's not a final that's going to draw in new fans but if u understand the little things that are going on it's fascinating.

That chipped pass to set up juanfran should be put on pornhub. Pure filth!

Enjoyable first half interesting that real are taking athleticos tough tackling midfield by attacking down the wings and hitting long balls. Athletico need to get griezman on the ball more he is their only real threat going forward as Torres has done literally nothing.

On paper that seems like a really good deal. I'm interested to see how Jordan Rhodes does in the Premiership with them.

Yeah looking forward to that as he has been scoring goals for fun in the championship. If he gets the service would expect him to get 12-15 goals. Hopefully force his way into the national set up.

Edit: how was Tony watt for rovers last season?

Middelsbrough sign striker/winger Viktor Fischer from Ajax for £3.8 million. Really surprised he was available for so cheap, espcially when nowadays being under 23 and in a top league adds 5 million straight off the bat. Saw him live end of last season good talent. Good movement off the ball and a player who is dangerous running with the ball.

Gamieros off the ball movement in the second half really has been a show to beheld. Seville are the more experienced side in Europa league finals and it has shown up in the second half. Never looked rattled

I partied hard yesterday so I woke up to the Celtic 2nd half and was like holy ****. Spurs I don't even know what the hell is going on.

Must be a theme though. My team finished the season with a 7-3 win to secure 2nd with promotion.

Motherwell are managed by celtic legend mark McGhee his teams have a history of losing to celtic heavily plus it was an end of season nothing game. Was going to go to it luckily had flag football practice instead!

Well done on the promotion mate what league does that put u in?

Edit: Joey Barton looks odds on to sign for rangers. Barton in the gold fish bowl that is the Old firm what could go wrong.

If you've ever had a bad sporting team a day spare a thought for my dad who is a spurs Portsmouth and motherwell fan. Spurs and motherwell got pumped 5-1 and 7-0 respectively. Portsmouth got dumped out the playoffs thanks to a last minute goal.

Not sure if spurs have ran out of steam or just have no bottle! Crazy result. Hopefully wenger stays don't think he has it in them to get arsenal a league title. Has shown an inability to buy defenders.

That basket interference call was shocking. Didn't look like a foul in real time the replies only make it look worse. Can't see either of these teams putting up a fight against the cavs though.

How's Kitchen looking over there? Or is he waiting til next season before starting?

He's been playing fairly regularly. Has looked solid has broke up the opposition play well but looks a tad off the pace going forward. although everything has been decided in the league for a couple weeks now so most games have been played at half pace.

Meh. If Rangers hadn't of had to of played like 5,000 games in 7 days before that game they'd of been back up a season earlier! .

Hail.

Haha sounds like same excuse they had before the uefa cup final. 6-1 is a pretty definitive answer to who is the better team