The Official UEFA Euro 2012 Thread

[Marvel]

Fc Barcelona

Now, I know their team has a lot of Barca players, but when I think of Barca, I think of Ronaldinho, Eto'o and Messi. I know David Villa is a beast too, but Barca been around forever. Its not La Liga suck all these years. It still doesn't explain how they got so good when the best players on La Liga are usually not from Spain.

Could it be that the league got some of the best players not from Spain and these Spanish kids learned from them while the league kept rules in place that made teams have majority Spanish rosters.

The EPL is the opposite and doesn't care to have a quota system, it could explain why England had some inconstancy with their national team.

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[BOBN]

when were they terrible?

theyve always been good, just underachievers

They were geninuely toliet in 96 through 98. Only started looking good and worthy of the underachieving tag about 01 with the valeron/mendieta types peaking.

 

[Bboystyle]

England will stop their reign in 2014, ox and wilshere to lift the cup

Please,England will continue to show the world they are over rated and show how the EPL is elite due to foreigners...

 

[yseJ]

Now, I know their team has a lot of Barca players, but when I think of Barca, I think of Ronaldinho, Eto'o and Messi. I know David Villa is a beast too, but Barca been around forever. Its not La Liga suck all these years. It still doesn't explain how they got so good when the best players on La Liga are usually not from Spain.

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iniesta+xavi + that d (puyol, busquets, pique)

barca and madrid are prolly the two best team right now in the world...

so

casillas
xavi
iniesta
puyol(injured)
david villa (injured)
pique
xabi alonso
ramos
busquets
arbeloa
fabregas
pedro
jordi alba

all play either for barca or madrid.

 

[Grams]

I've got the right audience for it, that's all.

Balotelli has white parents?

Wow what a c00n eh?

Instead of being truly awful, Balotelli simply did nothing today.

Maybe next match he'll make the step up to average?

Balotelli is shyte lads, get over it.

Hope italy win simply because it will win me the coli pool/sweepstake and the 80 bux that comes with it

Plus i like a lot of the italian players and have for a long time. All this supporting them on here because balotelli is black has done it's best to make me root against them but my like of those players out weighs it.

Plus my dislike of spain/barca and all that shyte has been known for ages so my support in this one is clear.

So his black parents essentially save his life by giving him away, then he turns his back on them in favour of old white people.

This balotelli sounds like a confused young man

Balotelli is piss poor in 90% of matches he plays. And it's not because of his attitude.

He's just not that good.

Di Natale instead of Balotelli from the start and spain with a striker, and this could have been one of the greatest games ever.

Seriously.

Balotelli scored?

In literally the least meaningful monent possible of their tournament so far?

If they had someone better than Balotelli Italy would be winning by now.

Get this bum Balotelli off. This game needs more Giovinco.

One of the biggest frauds going.


You often here this "he's got all the talent in the world, just needs to sort his head out" stuff but it's complete bollocks, he doesn't have that much talent at all.

 

[Roger Sterling]

Very disappointing but not totally unexpected defeat - heavier than I would have ever imagined though. Hapless and sleeping defence on the first two goals, particularly the second. A total lack of energy due to terribly unfair scheduling made exponentially worse playing with ten men for half an hour. Speaking of which, a bizarre/downright stupid choice of substitute in Motta when chasing a game (already at risk for an injury relapse).

 

[Roid Jones]

Now, I know their team has a lot of Barca players, but when I think of Barca, I think of Ronaldinho, Eto'o and Messi. I know David Villa is a beast too, but Barca been around forever. Its not La Liga suck all these years. It still doesn't explain how they got so good when the best players on La Liga are usually not from Spain.

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i'm going to email to Sid Lowe & Graham Hunter to find out how they have done this

 

[FakeNews]

iniesta+xavi + that d (puyol, busquets, pique)

barca and madrid are prolly the two best team right now in the world...

so

casillas
xavi
iniesta
puyol(injured)
david villa (injured)
pique
xabi alonso
ramos
busquets
arbeloa
fabregas
pedro
jordi alba

all play either for barca or madrid.

I know he didnt play for Barca or Madrid, but dont forget about Senna bruh. He was a rock for them in 08.

 

[BOBN]

Italy
Blue Ant, Broke Wave, Hammer, johnnydakota, Nudie, Pedro Romero, PYRRHUS 88, Roger Sterling, Scruffy, Str8Killa, The Esposito Himself
11 7.14%

picked some bums.

The only runners up who can leave this tourny with their heads held high is portugal (minus ronaldo). Everyone else got exposed.

 

[Ukbrotha]

BBC just played the worst cover of an MJ tracker ever. Thriller completely ruined.

 

[Guy Incognito]

who is singing this horrible rendition of Thriller?

MJ must be rolling in his grave... smh

 

[Marvel]

iniesta+xavi + that d (puyol, busquets, pique)

barca and madrid are prolly the two best team right now in the world...

so

casillas
xavi
iniesta
puyol(injured)
david villa (injured)
pique
xabi alonso
ramos
busquets
arbeloa
fabregas
pedro
jordi alba

all play either for barca or madrid.

Again, real madrid has been good forever. Can we agree that in the past 10 years that the a lot of the best players for barca and RM were non-Spanish? Why wasn't Spain world beaters in the 90s and early 2000s and making deep runs in intl tourneys? It still does not explain how Spain is so dominant.

Again, I'm not hating on Spain as you can see from my previous posts, just trying to ask a thought provoking question.

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[phillycavsfan]

Makes me for some reason.

 

[The Tanzanian Prince]

lol dude is obsessed by 21 year old Balotelli who is currently Italy's best forward

 

[mastermind]

When was it? I can't find anything online

It's on espn3, just watched it this morning