Euro 2020 - Congrats Italy

[John0]

Yeah I've bothered less and less with club football too over the years. Much prefer the international tournaments these days.

[layten]

[Smoothy]

Any RLLMUK Fantasy Football league?

[Marlowe]

Prediction time then:

https://gaming.uefa.com/en/uefaeuro2020tournamentpredictor/main

 

I fancy Turkey and to a lesser extent Italy to be the surprise teams of the tournament. Belgium's golden generation to underachieve again. Hard to see past France to win it, while Portugal are once again going to grind their way through the knock outs.

 

[Timmo]

18 hours ago, Smoothy said:

Any RLLMUK Fantasy Football league?

Unless I've missed it, no one has made a league yet, so I did.

 

Join code is 81XUSWRY08

 

Edit - I did miss it, code is in the first post. 

[Smoothy]

Joined!

[Naysonymous]

Oooh, Wembley looking all ready.  Dunno who has the TV studio at the end of Olympic Wembley Way but it’s a good location.  Suddenly feel more excited.  

[feltmonkey]

I love all that stuff.  I remember during Euro 96 wandering around Nottingham mingling with all the thousands of Croatia fans who had taken over the town in their red and white checked kits.  Great fun.

[Naysonymous]

Aye. I had the same in Birmingham with the Scotland fans who were in town for their thrilling 0-0 draw with The Netherlands.  Still the only tournament game I’ve ever attended, it was fun times though.  

[Sureshot]

5 hours ago, Timmo said:

Unless I've missed it, no one has made a league yet, so I did.

 

Join code is 81XUSWRY08

 

There was one mentioned in the first post.

[milko]

Ah, just remembered that Hal Robson-Kanu goal against Belgium last time. Good stuff! 

[Gabe]

So the real question is which ex-player is going to become a star pundit during the tournament? There's usually somebody who gets rave reviews, who do we think it could be this time (I fully admit I don't know the BBC/ITV line-ups)?

[Adrock]

Nigel De Jong, on ITV.

[Chewylegs]

8 hours ago, Sureshot said:

 

There was one mentioned in the first post.

I'm in..... both 

[ukdazs]

Me too.

[disperse and recoagulate]

16 hours ago, Timmo said:

Unless I've missed it, no one has made a league yet, so I did.

 

Join code is 81XUSWRY08

It was in the OP. 🤨

 

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[davidcotton]

One of the few good things about being signed off long term sick is that I get to watch the euros during the day 😁

[Plissken]

Weirdly, I'm looking forward to the actual football.  There's not a massive amount of filler there.  Turkey vs Italy is two good sides to kick off the tournament.  Just a shame that the tournament format has dampened some of the usual excitement when you see a single country hosting.  Now its basically the Champions League group stages.

[Naysonymous]

With three teams going though from most groups.  The 24 team format sucks, if they want to expand it then just go to 32.  UEFA has 55 members so they can still have the relatively predictable qualifiers.  

[Marlowe]

I'm very excited for it. Before the last tournament I was a big critic of the 24 team format due to the reduced jeopardy in the group stage, but I do love how it gives teams that would have previously struggled to qualify a great chance of taking part and springing a surprise (Iceland and Wales last time out). There's also no doubting the logic of it in the context of Europe post the break up of Yugoslavia and the USSR.

 

[Plissken]

It does give those countries that have never had a sniff of success in the tournament a chance to go far.

 

England, for instance.

[Naysonymous]

Aye, but you might as well go 32 > 16 > 8 > 4 > 2 > 1 as fuck about with this 24 team format, right? 

[Smoothy]

Have I gone back to 1990?! 😂

[wev]

Wow the Turkish fans have brought ALOT of flares!

[ryodi]

National anthems at international tournaments are a reminder of how awful God Save the Queen is. 

[Smoothy]

1 hour ago, Naysonymous said:

Aye, but you might as well go 32 > 16 > 8 > 4 > 2 > 1 as fuck about with this 24 team format, right? 

I don't mind, it was used in the World Cup from 1986 and was fine - 1st two in group automatically qualify, and 4 of the best 3rd-placers out of the 6.

 

The only issue is that they're only 50-odd nations under UEFA so going 32 would start to make qualifiers pointless. 

[wev]

2 minutes ago, ryodi said:

National anthems at international tournaments are a reminder of how awful God Save the Queen is. 

I like singing to the Italian one

 

I have a Ferrari

It is a fast car

It is a red car

It is a Ferrari 

Do you have a Ferrari?

They are very fast

Yes very fast

 

 

[cowfields]

2 minutes ago, wev said:

Do you have a Ferrari?

They are very fast

Yes very fast

 

 

"No I only have a remote controlled volkswagen" 

 

Isn't the response i expected to that song 

[Straps]

Football car is MOTM already for me.

[wev]

Just now, Straps said:

Football car is MOTM already for me.

 

2 minutes ago, cowfields said:

 

"No I only have a remote controlled volkswagen" 

 

Isn't the response i expected to that song 

It's the Rocket League European Championship