Official Arrse Euro 2012 thread?

[King_of_the_Burpas]

Who will win?

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

Ohhh God - the straining involved avoiding making the obvious joke is killing me.

[Murphy_Slaw]

29 Ashley Young and James Milner put in 29 crosses in the four games. Only three reached an England team-mate

18 England's most successful passing combination against Italy was the goalkeeper Joe Hart to the substitute striker Andy Carroll

And there you have it, wingers that can't pass/cross and the best passing combination was route 1!!!!

Now thats sexshy football, ja?

[blue-sophist]

Oh, I'm going to get flack for this, but WFT. I admit I don't watch football, and care about it even less, but …

So the BBC claims that 23m people watched that football game. Hmmm. Really?
UK population c. 62m. So 37% watched the game? Hmmm again.

Apparently 18% [10.5m] are under 14 and 16% [9.5m] are over 65. I'll accept that maybe 33% of those actually give a damn, despite their age, or are sucking on their blanket in a crib. So I'll add 6m there.

Then the dreaded ethnicity question. Some 4m are decidedly non-British. Like they give a damn?

Clatter of calculator ….
62m - 4m foreign = 58m
58m - 20m/3 who are too young or too old = c. 50m.
50m x .5 as not that many women actually care about footy = 25m

Is that how the BBC decided that 23m watched a football match I didn't watch? Or is there some secret Government department deciding who gives a tinker's cuss about football, and then massaging the statistics to say if you're male, of a certain age, you must have watched 22 men kick a ball around?

[PBUH]

3 Scousers. 3 whingers. Who'd have thought it?

[King_of_the_Burpas]

Is that how the BBC decided that 23m watched a football match I didn't watch? Or is there some secret Government department deciding who gives a tinker's cuss about football, and then massaging the statistics to say if you're male, of a certain age, you must have watched 22 men kick a ball around?

It was mostly 11 Italians kicking a ball about, while 11 others watched them and wept. The opposite of El Alamein, really.

[jimmys_best_mate]

3 Scousers. 3 whingers. Who'd have thought it?

I'm not whinging. I think it's funny watching England being humiliated like this.

I'm not a Scouser either, mind.

[donmac]

Oh, I'm going to get flack for this, but WFT. I admit I don't watch football, and care about it even less, but …

So the BBC claims that 23m people watched that football game. Hmmm. Really?
UK population c. 62m. So 37% watched the game? Hmmm again.

Apparently 18% [10.5m] are under 14 and 16% [9.5m] are over 65. I'll accept that maybe 33% of those actually give a damn, despite their age, or are sucking on their blanket in a crib. So I'll add 6m there.

Then the dreaded ethnicity question. Some 4m are decidedly non-British. Like they give a damn?

Clatter of calculator ….
62m - 4m foreign = 58m
58m - 20m/3 who are too young or too old = c. 50m.
50m x .5 as not that many women actually care about footy = 25m

Is that how the BBC decided that 23m watched a football match I didn't watch? Or is there some secret Government department deciding who gives a tinker's cuss about football, and then massaging the statistics to say if you're male, of a certain age, you must have watched 22 men kick a ball around?

I'm with you BS but I made the effort and watched the game last night. I have to admit the wendy ball skills on display were top drawer. The drag-back by the shirt, the grabbing of the face when accidentally kicked on the shoulder.... the list is endless.

[PBUH]

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.

8 League Champions eh? I had no idea he'd picked so many non Liverpool players. Only one of which played Champions league to any extent.

As for all the stuff about League winners, Runners Up Cup winners etc. Do you think its any different for the other countries?

Its England v the best teams in Europe, not England v Monkeys

England did as well as you should reasonably expect. Think of them as akin to the shite has beens just below the top 4 in the Premiership

[jimmys_best_mate]

England did as well as you should reasonably expect.

If you say so. I'm just looking forward to Hodge Podge's World Cup qualifying campaign now. Montenegro, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova and San Marino - it's going to be fucking brilliant.

I reckon the 0-0 away in San Marino is when the press and fans will turn on him.

[PBUH]

I'm not a Scouser either, mind.

Sorry. An awful accusation