Official Arrse Euro 2012 thread?

[Pyianno]

So England were shit.

Who will win?

I am hoping for the Germans. Huge amount of respect for how they always come prepared for major tournaments (unlike the English).

I especially don't want the Spanish to have success in this or anything else. Primarily due to their stance on Gibraltar. Not that I'm being childish or anything.

[cernunnos]

Cerny, let's face it. The cardboard would be crap and the cuttings would fall apart on the pitch in less than 90mins.

Exactly, no change there then!

[Miner]

No mate, go back to last week and lets put it in to context; that cringey moment when people started to believe England could win the pot. I tried to inject a bit of realism that England are punching above their weight and that gruppe sieger flattered them and you shot me down. If I was English I would be ashamed, that is no way to play a European quarter final. It was as bad as the Scots mong Harry Potter going to Czech and playing 4-6-0. As top level international football, last night offended me, and gutted me. I was looking forward to another 4-1.

Not having checked back through all the posts, but I don't think anyone here thought England could win the tournament. Beat the Italians, yes. But not win it all. I said it would be a close game with a mistake being the deciding factor. As it turned out, I was partly right. Over 120 minutes it was close as it ended 0-0.

However, the Italians certainly out played England last night. And England or the English game was shown up to be what it is. Archaic in it's approach, and those Italian papers firmly hit the nail on the head. Things won't change though for the forseeable future as we do not have the coaching set up or skills to develop better players at a young age. And that goes for British football, not just England.

I also heard a pearler on the radio earlier today. I can't recall his name but a pundit (ex-player) said that it would be a good idea to have midfielders that can use both feet. Fuck me! Really? What an aweome insight into the football brain. It'll never catch on though. Having players that are equally comfortable on the ball with both feet. I can't see the Spanish going for it for a start.

[DavidCameron]

Did anyone happen to catch the commentator's throw away comment last night when one of the Italians took a shot (of many) at goal and hit the England No. 3 in the rear?

..."He's fired a hard one into the backside of Ashley Cole"

That was my moment of the match anyway.

[cernunnos]

Did anyone happen to catch the commentator's throw away comment last night when one of the Italians took a shot (of many) at goal and hit the England No. 3 in the rear?

..."He's fired a hard one into the backside of Ashley Cole"

That was my moment of the match anyway.

You don't get out much do you..........?

[whiffler]

Steve Gerrard interviewed afetr the match "our players gave evry'ing tonight". Which is 70% of 'everything'.

Couldn't believe that Milner kept being played, and Young was diffy. Rooney seemed to have no pace or timing. Terry (of whom I am no fan on his many moral failings) seemed to have played the strongest of our guys. Parker was a one man wall but lacked support in mid-field from Gerrard who wanted to be Beckham and play all over the pitch. I would much rather have seen him behind the striker(s) where his ability to keep a hard low shot on target was sorely missed.

Yet again Defoe was taken and pretty much unused. Even though I'm a Spurs fan I can take or leave him, but not to use him when others are not sparking is really odd. Admittedly not as odd as Sven leaving him out of the squad but saying he could stay with the squad while taking a young Walcott who apparently "went for experience, not to play".

The rest of the subs must have been very disappointed.

[jimmys_best_mate]

As I said Dribble, whinge etc.......

Hodgson had 5 weeks to prepare, fuck me even the relegation dodging Scousers gave him more than that. Does anyone think we'd have even got out of the group with 'Arry? I don't.

You're right, there's no way you can teach professional footballers to pass to someone in the same coloured shirt as them in just five weeks.

[jimmys_best_mate]

30 Cristiano Ronaldo has had more shots in his first four games at Euro 2012 than the entire England squad (29) had at the tournament
20 Italy had more shots on target in their quarter-final match than England had in total in their four matches in Ukraine
88 England conceded more than twice as many shots to France, Sweden, Ukraine and Italy than they had against those teams
39 England had on average 39% of the possession in their four games, their lowest figure at a tournament since Euro 1980
29 Ashley Young and James Milner put in 29 crosses in the four games. Only three reached an England team-mate
300 England averaged 300 passes per match. The four semi-finalists have averaged 479
15 England completed only 15 passes in the 15 minutes of the second period of extra-time against Italy
18 England's most successful passing combination against Italy was the goalkeeper Joe Hart to the substitute striker Andy Carroll
115 Andrea Pirlo had more passes against England than England's four starting midfielders had against Italy
18 Mesut Ozil has created 18 chances in Germany's four games. Steven Gerrard, England's most prolific chance creator, has made six
102 England ran on average 102km in their four matches. Italy ran 7.5km further on average per match
86 England have had the most tackles in the tournament, with Steven Gerrard's 18 the most of any player
29 England have blocked the most shots at Euro 2012, 17 more than Italy, 19 more than Germany, 21 more than Portugal and 24 more than Spain

{From the Guardian)

But there's no way a team with eight league and four Champions League winners and with all eleven of their starting eleven with Champions League experience could possibly have dreamed of doing better...

I have to admit Woy is a genius in one respect - he can't half drag expectations down.

[MrShanklysboots]

30 Cristiano Ronaldo has had more shots in his first four games at Euro 2012 than the entire England squad (29) had at the tournament
20 Italy had more shots on target in their quarter-final match than England had in total in their four matches in Ukraine
88 England conceded more than twice as many shots to France, Sweden, Ukraine and Italy than they had against those teams
39 England had on average 39% of the possession in their four games, their lowest figure at a tournament since Euro 1980
29 Ashley Young and James Milner put in 29 crosses in the four games. Only three reached an England team-mate
300 England averaged 300 passes per match. The four semi-finalists have averaged 479
15 England completed only 15 passes in the 15 minutes of the second period of extra-time against Italy
18 England's most successful passing combination against Italy was the goalkeeper Joe Hart to the substitute striker Andy Carroll
115 Andrea Pirlo had more passes against England than England's four starting midfielders had against Italy
18 Mesut Ozil has created 18 chances in Germany's four games. Steven Gerrard, England's most prolific chance creator, has made six
102 England ran on average 102km in their four matches. Italy ran 7.5km further on average per match
86 England have had the most tackles in the tournament, with Steven Gerrard's 18 the most of any player
29 England have blocked the most shots at Euro 2012, 17 more than Italy, 19 more than Germany, 21 more than Portugal and 24 more than Spain

{From the Guardian)

But there's no way a team with eight league and four Champions League winners and with all eleven of their starting eleven with Champions League experience could possibly have dreamed of doing better...

I have to admit Woy is a genius in one respect - he can't half drag expectations down.

But Englands Lions did us proud!

Shite. And the uninformed drivel that I've seen in response here gives the FA a free pass to continue turning out the same turgid shite as it always has.

Great.

[CAARPS]

We are not fucking Brazil.

and the prize for the most obvious statement ever ever ever in the whole history of obvious statements goes to...