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If International Football is still supposedly the next level from club football then we should be aiming for someone that a has achieved at the highest level in club football, or international. It should be the next challenge for someone that has won accolades with more resources, win the highest accolades with the pool of players you have at your disposal. |
2016 UEFA European Football Championship - France • Page 298
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Fonzie 3,492 posts
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Registered 15 years agoBigKelvin wrote:
He is a great player but he has had a pretty crap tournament overall. He has hardly set the tournament alight.
Terrible tournament overall but happy for Ronaldo, what a player. -
the_milkybar_kid 8,474 posts
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Registered 7 years agoIt's ironic that a team that stumbled their way through won in extra time with a scrappy 1-0. This tournament really hasn't clicked with me at all. -
You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIronic? -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSeemed fairly typical to me.... -
You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDougs wrote:
I think there is a romanticism around international tournaments that makes people forget that probably at least half of them are quite dull.
Seemed fairly typical to me.... -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThis tournament had the highest percentage of games where one team had more than 60% possession ever, apparently. -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWorst tournament I have seen... least deserving winners - less so than even Greece.
But was in Lisbon for the game so experienced an amazing atmosphere. Happy for the Portugese, bar the two wankers in their team. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoHow were they not deserving? -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThey were shit, lucked out on the draw and bundled their way through. France were pretty bad in the final too final. Won't remember these Euros. -
grey_matters 5,507 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI seem to be an outlier on the how-bad-was-the-tournament curve. The final was shit along with a few other games but I enjoyed the tournament more than most that I've seen.
It could have done with a more even distribution of "quality" on each side of the draw but the various reasons why that didn't happen was part of what made the first part so good (to me and me alone it seems!). Ah well, football appreciation has always been subjective. But then, I continue to think that this is the most exciting English team that I've seen for 20 years. So maybe I'm just objectively bad at appreciating football. -
You-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Maybe I have the rose tinted glasses on but WC 2014 was the best international tournament I've seen since Euro 2000. Had high hopes for this tournament as I didn't think international football could deteriorate so badly in the space of 2 years, but maybe it's just because the South Americans weren't involved.
Dougs wrote:
I think there is a romanticism around international tournaments that makes people forget that probably at least half of them are quite dull.
Seemed fairly typical to me....
Also, no team that finishes third in the group stages should ever be able to win a tournament. -
SolidSCB wrote:
To be fair, Fabio Capello before taking the England job was a hugely successful manager, winning trophies with 4 different teams (3 if you discount Calciopoli?). The England team brings every manager down to their level.
What did people really expect from Hodgson? You get what you pay for. When you're hiring a manager used to clogging away with middling clubs trying to keep their head above water like Fulham, Liverpool and West Brom he's clearly too hard wired into that attitude to take any sort of different approach when he gets a big job. He's a 'nick a goal' manager with a bunch of players largely used to playing on the front foot in games for their respective clubs.
All these names being touted are cut from almost the exact same cloth as him. Is Big Sam honestly an upgrade in any way, shape or form? -
You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoEngland btw are through to the semi-finals of the Under-21s tournament having beat the Dutch in the QFs. -
senso-ji 10,271 posts
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Registered 13 years agoWhich under 21 tournament? The euro one isn't until 2017. -
You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSorry under-19s. -
yegon 6,511 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDon't count on England completing a nice pattern. They buggered up the WC sequence in 98.
England-Brazil-West Germany-Argentina-Italy-Argentina-West Germany-Brazil......
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Remember when Wales won this in 2016
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