Group F: Turkey, Georgia, Portugal, Czech Republic

[Drico]

Think it's just the level of punditry/commentating that make it cringeworthy, for both the lads and the lasses.

The style changed over the years - and I'm not a fan of those changes. It's all shouting and banter now, full-on conversations. I'm old-school. Give me Brian Moore (who shouted a bit in his early years before becoming the consummate pro) and Barry Davies anyday. Motson was good, too, until he decided to "adapt" to the new world, get all shouty, and start preparing weird lines for morning matches about smashing the breakfast crockery. No wonder Davies called it a day.

 

[Nymzee]

“Not far away” I mean it was, wasn’t it.

 

[heatmeiser]

Personally I think they should go for Bohemia, it sounds cooler.

Hasn't every other language always called them Czechia? (Or the equivalent of) It was just English that didn't have a shortened version

 

[Papa Shango]

The style changed over the years - and I'm not a fan of those changes. It's all shouting and banter now, full-on conversations. I'm old-school. Give me Brian Moore (who shouted a bit in his early years before becoming the consummate pro) and Barry Davies anyday. Motson was good, too, until he decided to "adapt" to the new world, get all shouty, and start preparing weird lines for morning matches about smashing the breakfast crockery. No wonder Davies called it a day.

Brian Moore's voice was boss which helped. Always enjoyed him calling games down a telephone line in the Eastern Bloc.

Archie MacPherson on Eurosport used to always make me laugh, he said about 5 words per half.

 

[Bwana]

How to milk Moyesy's Everton 'till the Portugal first 11.

In a way respect.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Hasn't every other language always called them Czechia? (Or the equivalent of) It was just English that didn't have a shortened version

Yup, always known them as Czechia natively, Czech Republic for English only.

Realistically nothing's changed for us

 

[YoboCopter]

teams with ronaldo in are just set up to serve ronaldo you can even see the team mates are in scared/ in awe of him

He be better coming off bench i think

 

[DualityNSNO]

The style changed over the years - and I'm not a fan of those changes. It's all shouting and banter now, full-on conversations. I'm old-school. Give me Brian Moore (who shouted a bit in his early years before becoming the consummate pro) and Barry Davies anyday. Motson was good, too, until he decided to "adapt" to the new world, get all shouty, and start preparing weird lines for morning matches about smashing the breakfast crockery. No wonder Davies called it a day.

Fairly sure he called it a day because he's ancient mate.

 

[the golden visionary]

Both teams will be looking to get the best result they can tonight, particularly as this is the last game of the round.

First

 

[Drico]

Brian Moore's voice was boss which helped. Always enjoyed him calling games down a telephone line in the Eastern Bloc.

Archie MacPherson on Eurosport used to always make me laugh, he said about 5 words per half.

The old telephone line commentary is a much-lamented atmospheric loss. And I say this as somebody in Germany who can watch the BBC, ITV, RTE, or whatever channel on the planet with a VPN. Technology, eh?

I used to enjoy Archie in his Eurosport days. He restricted himself to lots of "Oooh, the goalkeeper!" shouts, which were always enjoyable. I also loved his apology one night when he started to choke during commentary, helpfully telling us a piece of cake had got stuck in his throat. The image of Archie with his tea and cake commentating on Auxerre versus Club Bruges always endeared him to me.

 

[DualityNSNO]

@JimmyJeffers what's the mood about yours for this?

 

[the golden visionary]

Dear England team

Look at Portugal

Do that

 

[Drico]

Fairly sure he called it a day because he's ancient mate.

He called it a day earlier than he would because he was constantly overlooked for the big gigs and because he did not like the stylistic changes that were demanded of him. It's in his autobiography. He is, also, ancient of course.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Ronaldo looks finished.

 

[Nymzee]

Ronaldo trying to do some skill before remembering he’s been playing with camels all year.