The Football.....

[jowwy]

Wales is basically just West Englandshire nowadays.

Thats what the english think………

 

[jowwy]

How does a football fan, whos english not know who terry butcher is………..🤔

anyway back to sunday, do you honestly think you will beat italy on the weekend???

 

[Smokin Joe]

How does a football fan, whos english not know who terry butcher is………..🤔

anyway back to sunday, do you honestly think you will beat italy on the weekend???

If I could predict sporting results the manager in the local branch of Corals would not warmly greet me by name when I walked in, but to answer your question I think they can. But if I were Italian I would also think they can win it.

It is impossible to predict how two teams will fare against each other until they actually meet. I think it will be a closr game whatever the outcome.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Drinking used to be acceptable for the Tennis many many years ago. And more recently for Darts and Snooker.
This lady was particularly spectacular, to the point where they had to try to find a way around prohibition for her!

https://www.si.com/tennis/2019/06/27/suzanne-lenglen-tennis-wimbledon-life-death

She seemed like a classy gal! Just my type. 🧐

 

[Deleted User]

I know this is a cycling forum, but as well as being a cyclist, I am also a football fan having played as a kid and coached as an adult.

I've attended a lot of England matches in my time with the first being a home international against NI in 1979 and the most recent being the opening qualifier for this current Euros in March 2019.

I'm a fully paid up member of the England travel club and although I couldn't secure a ticket for any of the finals, I'm totally crapping my pants at the prospect of England v Italy on Sunday night.

I know it's only a game, but how do the rest of you feel?

Is it coming home?

I doubt it, but you never know.

Best chance in decades of a major trophy and Spain were the better team last time out.

Early goal might make all the difference for us and we have a strong, rested bench so fingers crossed.

 

[Deleted User]

Thats what the english think………

Do we?

 

[jowwy]

Do we?

as this is a football thread im not going to answer…….sorry

 

[postman]

Come the end,I will say bloody hell they did it or well I told you so.Now Cav is a different kettle of fish,oh number 35 now that will get me jumping and screaming,this week has been awesome,anybody think like me the lead out bloke nearly forgot the script,he looked over near the line,I am sure he thought bloody hell that was too close I nearly won.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Seeing as it's 'England's biggest match since 1966'. Can you spot the Accy/England W/C final connection?🤔

 

[Lovacott]

If I could predict sporting results the manager in the local branch of Corals would not warmly greet me by name when I walked in, but to answer your question I think they can. But if I were Italian I would also think they can win it.

It is impossible to predict how two teams will fare against each other until they actually meet. I think it will be a closr game whatever the outcome.

Apart from the match against Ukraine, all of our games have been very tight and could have gone either way.

We were lucky against the Danes. They had a really tough quarter final and they ran out of legs after about 60 minutes.

So far, the Italians have scored 12 goals and only conceded 3. We've scored 10 and conceded 1.

Hopefully the match won't be ruined by fear of failure as is often the case in major finals.

 

[Rocky]

Seeing as it's 'England's biggest match since 1966'. Can you spot the Accy/England W/C final connection?🤔

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Les Cocker........also a trainer for the England side, as I recall. Poor chap died aged 55. Far too young.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Maybe the ref should watch these before the game -


View: https://youtu.be/S7dkvGHcy2k


View: https://youtu.be/thwA2wbOzYg


View: https://youtu.be/PNaNc3X6IK0

 

[Lovacott]

Maybe the ref should watch these before the game

Attacking players are encouraged to do this by the laws of the game. They know that if they are fouled but stay on their feet, the foul won't be given.

Refs look at the end product rather than the action so a trip where an attacker stumbles but stays up, is not deemed to be a trip.

The idea with any sport is to play to the very limits of the rules so rugby players will duck into a tackle to make it high, footballers will trail a foot to draw a foul and male weightlifters will have a sex change so they can win in the womens event.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Attacking players are encouraged to do this by the laws of the game. They know that if they are fouled but stay on their feet, the foul won't be given.

Refs look at the end product rather than the action so a trip where an attacker stumbles but stays up, is not deemed to be a trip.

The idea with any sport is to play to the very limits of the rules so rugby players will duck into a tackle to make it high, footballers will trail a foot to draw a foul and male weightlifters will have a sex change so they can win in the womens event.

Is that so?

Those nasty people writing the rules made poor ickle Sterling fall over.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

poor ickle Sterling

I'm not sure why Sterling is always picked out, but it leaves a nasty taste.