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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 12:12:26 AM

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BTW Scolari announced as new Chelski manager.

They can bring in any manager they like, they'll still bore me to tears.

John Terry bored himself to tears in Moscow mate

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 12:14:11 AM

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Cantona, I take it that you a Manchester UTD supporter, right?

"1966 was a great year for English Football...Eric was born". Anyway, if I well understood this means your club is above or much more important than the English national team... since England was World Champion on 1966

Will we see a wild and crazy mud fight between Calderon & Ferguson? I would pay for such a fight...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 12:17:39 AM

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Yes Tulius. England is not my national team as Gibraltar is not allowed to participate in FIFA and UEFA competitons for political reasons, which im not going to get into as this is a footie thread. Many United supporters (English ones!) put united above England as a rule of thumb. My only concern is that united players all come back fit from international games.

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 3:20:34 AM

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And now for something completely different :D

Coca cola commercial for Euro 2008, it has few versions but i find this one to be most funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhU3ongKJiI

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 3:27:39 AM

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And the "horror" side of Croatia support in Austria and Switzerland

A true ninja!

Casual folk band

Pocahontas meets the Hydrogen peroxide

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 9:34:41 AM

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As a distant relative of Pocahontas, I'd happily welcome that young lady into the fold.

Wait a minute - maybe I'm better off not being related to her!

Awww... forget it... a geezer like me doesn't stand a chance with a young cutie like her...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 10:00:09 AM

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i'M married, i' married, i love my wife...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 3:47:34 PM

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3 hours before the Croatia - Germany kick off.

Go Croatia - Naprijed Hrvatska!

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 4:06:58 PM

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3 hours before the Croatia - Germany kick off.

Go Croatia - Naprijed Hrvatska!

Sorry mate...

Croatia 0 - Germany 3

Germany are going to turn on the style today and qualify from their group with ease. I'm tempted to go for Ballack scoring first in a 3-0 win at 75-1 odds

Croatia will win their final game though and finish second...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 4:25:43 PM

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No way m8

I know that the chances are something like 70-30 for Germany but you know .. the usual cliche ... the ball is round, everyone plays football and so on

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 4:39:52 PM

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Hey Zond, are you going to park the bus and the players' cars in front of your goalkeeper or fight toe-to-toe with the Germans? Good luck, you will need it

EDITED: and maybe you should "park" the Croatian girlies of your pic behind the German goalkeeper

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 4:47:37 PM

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Hey Zond, are you going to park the bus and the players' cars in front of your goalkeeper or fight toe-to-toe with the Germans? Good luck, you will need it

EDITED: and maybe you should "park" the Croatian girlies of your pic behind the German goalkeeper

Nah, we'll just mop the floor with them, like the 3-0 win back at the 1998 WC quarterfinals

Now seriously, due to our f***ed up mentality we usually play better against top class opponents.

I predict or would like a draw very much.

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 5:06:29 PM

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Dixxie is right.
We will beat you today, but you'll win your second game so that we can meet again in the finale :)

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 5:10:45 PM

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Dixxie is right.
We will beat you today, but you'll win your second game so that we can meet again in the finale :)

The best you can hope for is to meet in the semi-final

I'd like to say that Croatia have a chance, but they looked short of ideas against the Austrians and ze Germans are another class altogether IMO, bothe in defence and in attacking options...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 5:18:11 PM

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Dixxie is right.
We will beat you today, but you'll win your second game so that we can meet again in the finale :)

The best you can hope for is to meet in the semi-final I'd like to say that Croatia have a chance, but they looked short of ideas against the Austrians and ze Germans are another class altogether IMO, bothe in defence and in attacking options...

But I assure you, Croatia will play a lot better today against the Jerries

(I hope so!

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Less than 2 hours before the kick off.

F***in' fever pitch

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 5:25:52 PM

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Dixxie is right.
We will beat you today, but you'll win your second game so that we can meet again in the finale :)

The best you can hope for is to meet in the semi-final I'd like to say that Croatia have a chance, but they looked short of ideas against the Austrians and ze Germans are another class altogether IMO, bothe in defence and in attacking options...

But I assure you, Croatia will play a lot better today against the Jerries (I hope so! )

Less than 2 hours before the kick off.

F***in' fever pitch

I'm getting excited, too. We will watch the game in an old postal hall with 8.000 people in it - and two croatian friends of mine

@dixxie
really? I haven't looked into the plan, but every tournement I remember, the teams from one group were not to meet each other before the finale again...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 5:27:49 PM

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Enjoy the match lads. Unfortunately today we have our school's sports day and its an extra couple of hours work this evening, so no footie for me tonight

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 5:29:42 PM

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Dixxie is right.
We will beat you today, but you'll win your second game so that we can meet again in the finale :)

The best you can hope for is to meet in the semi-final I'd like to say that Croatia have a chance, but they looked short of ideas against the Austrians and ze Germans are another class altogether IMO, bothe in defence and in attacking options...

But I assure you, Croatia will play a lot better today against the Jerries (I hope so! )

Less than 2 hours before the kick off.

F***in' fever pitch

I'm getting excited, too. We will watch the game in an old postal hall with 8.000 people in it - and two croatian friends of mine

@dixxie
really? I haven't looked into the plan, but every tournement I remember, the teams from one group were not to meet each other before the finale again...

Yep. The teams from the Group A+B side and those from C+D side of the tournament play each other in the next round.

Winner A v Runner up B
Winner B v Runner up A

Winner C v Runner up D
Winner D v Runner up C

Then the winners of each pair will play each other in the semi final. I was surprised as well...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 6:05:50 PM

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And here are the possible lineups:

http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match=300693/index.html

Bilic decided to put Rakitic into starting 11 (Petric is out). A fairly offensive lineup. Just hope that Pranjic and Rakitic will manage to hold their bank, not the best choice for defensive.

So, it's all out attack

Less than an hour.

Warriooooors, come out to plaaaaaaay-i-ay.

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 6:23:44 PM

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And here are the possible lineups:

http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match=300693/index.html

Bilic decided to put Rakitic into starting 11 (Petric is out). A fairly offensive lineup. Just hope that Pranjic and Rakitic will manage to hold their bank, not the best choice for defensive.

So, it's all out attack

Less than an hour.

Warriooooors, come out to plaaaaaaay-i-ay.

That could well misfire on you

I'm not sure that going all out attack against a well organised team like Ze Germans is a good idea. I admit I only have a sketchy knowledge of Croatian football, mostly from football manager...

We shall see though, everyone knows better than the managers don't they

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 6:29:15 PM

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That could well misfire on you I'm not sure that going all out attack against a well organised team like Ze Germans is a good idea. I admit I only have a sketchy knowledge of Croatian football, mostly from football manager...

We shall see though, everyone knows better than the managers don't they

Hopefully , there is a webpage where you can improve your knowledge

http://www.becomeacroatiafan.com/

Yep, we shall see

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 6:47:53 PM

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Hopefully , there is a webpage where you can improve your knowledge

http://www.becomeacroatiafan.com/

Yep, we shall see

I'll have a proper look later. The only player I'm really aware of is Ivica Olic of Hamburg.

It's interesting how everyone feels Croatia will do well because they beat England in qualifying. I can't help thinking that this particular fact is (IMO) worthless as we aren't in the tournament, let alone one of the favourites

Beating England would have maybe meant something if we were there....

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 7:13:53 PM

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"It's interesting how everyone feels Croatia will do well because they beat England in qualifying"

Not only because of that. Croatians have had excellent, talented football players (Prosinecki, Boban, Suker, etc). But unlike the Ukrainians (Shevchenko) or Nigerians on the 90s (Weah), they have in general balanced teams. Shevchenko & Weah could not fight alone against the other team. They were doomed. In other words, Croatia is more competitive.

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 7:25:17 PM

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Tullius Weah is from Liberia, not Nigeria

In your face gentlemans.

1-0

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 7:28:04 PM

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Tullius Weah is from Liberia, not Nigeria

In your face gentlemans.

1-0

Yes indeed, in my face

But for how long?

Actually, so far the Croatians have been the better side...

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 7:35:23 PM

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We have sandbags as defenders

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 7:48:38 PM

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We have sandbags as defenders

True rock solid defence

Well that was rather nice first half. Nice bunch of chances for both sides.

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 7:55:54 PM

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1 - 0 ? [I'm at work and can't watch it] What I said: Germany is not a Football Machine anymore

Liberia? I always thought he was Nigerian (and, yes, you are correct)

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RE: Very OT : Euro 2008 - 6/12/2008 8:20:40 PM

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Sorry mate...

Croatia 0 - Germany 3

Germany are going to turn on the style today and qualify from their group with ease. I'm tempted to go for Ballack scoring first in a 3-0 win at 75-1 odds Croatia will win their final game though and finish second...

Sorry mate....