General Euros chatter

[Rita_Poon]

No, no, no! There was real ale at the festival - but I wasn't paying that. My response was about your mention of a cask lager.

 

[chrismpw]

Oh now you've gone and foisted modern music on me!

 

[Rita_Poon]

Oh now you've gone and foisted modern music on me!

Guilty! At last someone has gotten through...

 

[summerisle]

Fly out tomorrow; must say, quite excited... despite this tweet being the exactly location of my hotel for the weekend View attachment 260643

 

[Billy Dean]

Fanzones; this is admittedly from Münich but feels excessive thatView attachment 260648

Yeah that is a bit much. O’Reillys will be about the same though. Lots of kiosks and spätis around where you can get beers for €2-3 and supermarkets even cheaper. Normal pubs will be cheaper than Irish pubs too

 

[barneygumble]

Yeah that is a bit much. O’Reillys will be about the same though. Lots of kiosks and spätis around where you can get beers for €2-3 and supermarkets even cheaper. Normal pubs will be cheaper than Irish pubs too

If there's anywhere decent you recommend for tonight, let us know? Might see you there if so!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Can I just state how much I hate that awful England band?

I’d love to shove that drum and trumpet down their self satisfied gullets

 

[johnjoeefc]

Does anyone else hate the best third place teams introduction. I think it completely degrades the group stage and the competition. I prefer the old format with higher quality and less teams.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist in that sense but this third place qualifier in a 4 team group thing is nonsense. In the African cup of nations Ivory Coast came third having lost 4 nil and 1 nil in the group stage finishing 3rd with 3 points and a minus 3 goal difference and then had the chance to still go on and win the tournament which they did it just doesn't really seem right.

It seems like a free pass for teams to underperform early in the tournament and makes the importance of each match in the group stage significantly less.

 

[anton66]

Fanzones; this is admittedly from Münich but feels excessive thatView attachment 260648

500ml and probably 1/3 will be froth.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Does anyone else hate the best third place teams introduction. I think it completely degrades the group stage and the competition. I prefer the old format with higher quality and less teams.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist in that sense but this third place qualifier in a 4 team group thing is nonsense. In the African cup of nations Ivory Coast came third having lost 4 nil and 1 nil in the group stage finishing 3rd with 3 points and a minus 3 goal difference and then had the chance to still go on and win the tournament which they did it just doesn't really seem right.

It seems like a free pass for teams to underperform early in the tournament and makes the importance of each match in the group stage significantly less.

It ruins the group stage.

Someone should be going home early in Group B, with every game a tense affair. Instead, it's, "Run up the score on Albania, draw one of the other two and you should be fine. Then the tournament starts."

It's great if you're a mediocre team like us in 1994, and can avoid the indignity of going out before the knockouts as the host, but that's about it.

 

[summerisle]

#kiltwatch

 

[stipe]

Heir of House of Stuart (true kings of Scotland) is now Duke of Bavaria, so its like second home to them

 

[the golden visionary]

The lovable jocks out in force

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

England fans will get absolutely battered by the first non cheese eating country’s fans they face.

250k Scottish fans with diary allergies awaits....

 

[chicoazul]

Let’s be honest the English could only dream of being as good fans as the Scots. A tenth of the population but one hundred times the support and people.