Group B: Spain, Croatia, Italy, Albania

[Tommy Chong]

Listening to Christina Unkel is like listening to someone drag their nails down a chalk board

Well, if she's anywhere as annoying as Steve Urkel is...

Then yes, it makes sense.

 

[carolinablue232]

They really really are

Why don’t the PL pay to bring in foreign refs?

They’re better than the crap ones we have and it’s not like the league doesn’t have the money

Like any establishment, they’re not going to give up the little power they have.

 

[Drico]

English refs are dog muck

And Oliver is chief among them. The Brexit referee: full of his own importance, always lowers the tone in Europe, and comes pre-packed with a sense of exceptionalism. Exceptionally bad.

 

[miami]

Wasn't a pen for me.

And if you're pulling that for encroachment - then you have to pull the keeper for being off his line and have a retake.

One of the keeper’s feet was behind the line when the pen was struck, which is within the rules.

 

[Jamiednm]

Spain will be off to a winning start if they can just see this 3-0 lead over the line.

 

[Drico]

Michael Oliver is the kind of ref that thinks kids have posters of him on their walls.

Shaved his eyebrow, you know...

 

[toffee82]

Spain will be off to a winning start if they can just see this 3-0 lead over the line.

Probably

 

[Rita_Poon]

Well, if she's anywhere as annoying as Steve Urkel is...

Then yes, it makes sense.

You know they said the same thing about Urkel a-that little snot boy, I'd like to smack that kid!​

 

[Jamiednm]

The Croats will be disappointed with that result.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Great first half, really not Croatia's day

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Oliver showing that most VAR issues we have in the PL are related to the referees we have and not the system itself

Nothing like this last night

Yeah, it's nothing like as bad when I watch the Bundesliga games on Sky.

 

[Fedlingen]

ITV commentators praising Michael Oliver as the best English referee after that shambles of a performance because he blew for a clear handball.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Spain will be off to a winning start if they can just see this 3-0 lead over the line.

The co-commentator for the Bulgarian broadcast is some grandad that keeps saying the reason why they disallowed the goal is that there's someone in the box.

The last 5 min he spent going off on a massive tangent about why it's great that Spain won (even more so without conceding, relating to the point above) as because if they didn't - young players like Yamal will absolutely mentally crumble and will cry all the way back home.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Croatia found out here, let them have the ball, they've got a bunch of forwards who are happier playing second fiddle, dropping deep, no out and out finisher.

They're in trouble, especially if the defenders continue to let their reputations get to them.

 

[DanEFC92]

Dull second half.