Efestivals Euro football thread

[steviewevie]

Marxism has done England the world of good.

[gooner1990]

2 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

Had my semi final ticket through.

Block 552, row 35 so upper tier and quite far back, but pretty much level with the halfway line.

Cat 2?  
 

Would expect better than that for such a price. 

[sisco]

6 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Cat 2?  
 

Would expect better than that for such a price. 

Guess the cat 3 were corners and behind the goals

[sisco]

Yeah they are, my mate just showed me his 195 euro ones for Spin/Italy! Right in a corner 

[BobWillis2]

Scotland are still the only team to celebrate a win against England during the Euros. 

[Ryan1984]

‘Fans First’ tickets (€85) have been going on and off sale on the UEFA site for Italy v Spain. Keep an eye out in case the same happens for Wednesday or the final!

[henry bear]

On 6/22/2021 at 7:35 AM, mcshed said:

Surely the neutral is on the side of Denmark after what they've been through with Eriksen. Sorry Wales.

Personally, I don’t know why this has to be the case but it certainly was. Nearly every kick of the ball Wales had was booed and jeered. At least England will have home advantage. Again.

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, gooner1990 said:

Cat 2?  
 

Would expect better than that for such a price. 

Seems like it’s done at random now.

This was Cat 2 for Germany…

 

[Hugh Jass]

And yet this was Cat 2 for Scotland…

 

[Hugh Jass]

To be honest just being there is enough.

[mcshed]

1 hour ago, henry bear said:

Personally, I don’t know why this has to be the case but it certainly was. Nearly every kick of the ball Wales had was booed and jeered. At least England will have home advantage. Again.

You don't see why the story of their star player collapsing in front of their eyes, them not knowing if he would survive has emotional appeal to the neutral?

More so than the heartwarming story of the Welsh team finding a new manager at the last minute as the previous one is charged with beating women?

Denmark is the fairy tale and them against the dark arts of Italy in the final is the perfect climax to that story unfortunately there is boringly effective England in the way.

 

[Homer]

1 hour ago, mcshed said:

Denmark is the fairy tale and them against the dark arts of Italy in the final is the perfect climax to that story unfortunately there is boringly effective England in the way.

 

I'd prefer that to boring and ineffective like another hone nation I'm too polite to mention, to be fair.

[henry bear]

1 hour ago, mcshed said:

You don't see why the story of their star player collapsing in front of their eyes, them not knowing if he would survive has emotional appeal to the neutral?

Of course when it happened it looked so grim, and yet it was heartwarming when it became clear that Eriksen had responded well to defibrillation. Fast forward a few weeks to Amsterdam and Wales, in front of pretty much zero of their own fans, were getting jeered simply because they weren’t the team that had had a player collapse with cardiac arrest. 

[mcshed]

18 minutes ago, Homer said:

I'd prefer that to boring and ineffective like another hone nation I'm too polite to mention, to be fair.

Boring and effective is certainly an improvement in recent times for England, but as far as the neutral* is concerned it's Denmark all the way. 

*I don't include myself in that category I'd want England to lose regardless of how nice their football was or how remarkable a back story there was.

[sisco]

6 minutes ago, henry bear said:

Of course when it happened it looked so grim, and yet it was heartwarming when it became clear that Eriksen had responded well to defibrillation. Fast forward a few weeks to Amsterdam and Wales, in front of pretty much zero of their own fans, were getting jeered simply because they weren’t the team that had had a player collapse with cardiac arrest. 

Tbf, there were thousands and thousands of Denmark fans there. 

[mcshed]

19 minutes ago, henry bear said:

Of course when it happened it looked so grim, and yet it was heartwarming when it became clear that Eriksen had responded well to defibrillation. Fast forward a few weeks to Amsterdam and Wales, in front of pretty much zero of their own fans, were getting jeered simply because they weren’t the team that had had a player collapse with cardiac arrest. 

In Amsterdam where Christian Eriksen came through as a teenager that is also really close to Denmark? I'm stunned.

[Hugh Jass]

Fact of the day… both keepers on Wednesday, Pickford and Schmeichel, made their senior football debuts whilst on loan at Darlington.

[gooner1990]

Semi Finals my predication are:

Italy 2-1 Spain

England 3-1 Denmark

[Ryan1984]

9 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Semi Finals my predication are:

Italy 2-1 Spain

England 3-1 Denmark

I think England are going to put us through the wringer - 2-1 win with a late winner in extra time.

Italy to win 2-0.

[Homer]

I would expect Italy to win by a more comfortable margin than whoever wins our semi.

[Superscally]

15 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

I think England are going to put us through the wringer - 2-1 win with a late winner in extra time.

Italy to win 2-0.

That would be my guess

[gooner1990]

Just got my ticket for the final sent through....block 128.

Pray to the gods England are in it!

[gooner1990]

double post.

Edited July 5, 2021 by gooner1990

[sisco]

7 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Just got my ticket for the final sent through....block 128.

Pray to the gods England are in it!

Nice mate

[st dan]

I’d start the same team on Wednesday I think, for me Sancho just gives us the spark that Saka doesn’t quite have yet, but I’d be happy with either. 
Wouldn’t mind Grealish starting ahead of Mount too, but that’s very unlikely.