Well Mycroft, if you phrase it that way, it’s the entire WORLD playing Sweden on Saturday. 
Ah, the PAX wardrobe. Read all about how I built one. :eek: Funnily enough, Mycroft, I always end up with left over parts and screws after putting together an IKEA item. It has improved my Swedish a bit, though. 
Twisty - shuddup, you Cashel-Blue-chewing-non-qualifying-monkey.
From what I’ve seen of the games, Holland are going to walk all over Sweden. Which is a bit of a shame because I have a thing for Scandinavian women and the Portugese cameramen keep zooming in on the women in the crowd.
Forgot to mention - for those interested, the BBC has an online score predictor that shows who will play who if x beats y, etc. If we both win, it’s an England - Holland semi final.
Whilst it is the dictionary definition of “two bob” to gloat about another team’s failiures I would point out that schaudenfreude is a GERMAN word.
So: Take that you limburger eating war-starting monkeys!
The hour draws close. England v Portugal cometh, and I am already quite ludicrously wound up about it.
I think we’re the better team but the idea of James vs figo at free kicks is bringing me out in spots.
“he’s fat,
he’s scouse,
he’s going to rob your house
rooney, rooney”
(on a purely domestic sidenote - the premiership fixtures are out this morning, they’re on the bbc site Chelsea v Man Utd is a good way to raise the curtain (we’re at home to Liverpool)
To compensate, I have just ordered 6 busloads of our hottest birds to be delivered to Portugal overnight. We’re terribly sorry about the inconvenience. 
owl, did you know Limburg is a province of the Netherlands?
Oddly enough, the stuff appears to be from Belgium, originally, so I guess we’ll have to make that “Butterkäse eating war-starting monkeys”, if you don’t mind.
I just put “german cheese” into google and picked the first one I recognised. I’m not claiming to be an expert here you know.
Anyway I hope that tonight the Wensleydale eating overly bellicose monkeys win.
Since this is where the footy fans are.
Check out this brilliantly funny Irish radio piss take. It involves Roy Keane talking to Beckham after the England France game in the style of The Streets: Dry you eyes
Yeah let’s get some predictions in. What do you guys think of this (I am basically a neutral observer and please be so kind…):
QF:
England v. Portugal: 2-1
France v. Greece: 2-0
The Netherlands v. Sweden: 3-1
Czech Rep. v. Denmark: 2-1
SF:
England v. The Netherlands: 2-3
France v. Czech Rep.: 1-2
F:
The Netherlands v. Czech Rep.: ??
Those predictions might prove to be accurate, although I don’t know how well the Dutch can handle the English right now. Sure, we’re better in individual quality, but the English are better as a collective. Plus they have a few people who have risen above themselves already (Rooney, King). The Dutch so far have only performed adequately or worse.
If the final is Czech - Clogs, then I’d put my money on those Olomouc eating rebound monkeys.
[sub]Meanwhile, at Google HQ: “This weird Dutch bloke keeps googling for national cheeses! WTF??”[/sub]
Hey let’s not get ahead of ourselves : )
England have been quite impressive. They are getting better with each game. Campbell and the defence have been pretty good. It would be interesting to see the match against Portugal today. The first time in the tournament they’d be without home-field advantage!
The bookies can’t split the teams - 8/5 England and portugal to win 9/5 the draw in 90 mins.
I think they’re right - its far too close to call.
For the neutral I would hope that England score first and early so the portugese have to come forward - if they score first I can see them killing the game.
As an middle aged man who has eaten far too many of the pies I am dreading penalties. I am due a heart attack anytime soon, and that could do it.
aw. Somebody has made some threatening phone calls to the Danish consulate in Milano, threatening to deflate the consulates car tyres! Also the door had been smeared with rotten eggs! How perfectly dastardly! BTW It goes with out saying, but of course we rigged the match.
I hope the Czechs win gold. They’ve been the most positive surprise (to me at least) of the tournament so far. But I think France takes it.
Today I root for England over Portugal, since I was raised on English football.
An American checking in here… there may not be many of us following this tournament, but there are a few. And I’m taking the morning off work so I can go to a sports bar and watch England v. Portugal during lunch.
(I’m just hoping that I won’t get pummeled by English Soccer Fans ™. Not that I’m not cheering for England. I just might not be cheering for England correctly.)
Feck.
Arse.
Bollocks.
I could go on about the ref, the penalty spot (I know it was the same for both sides, but the English pundits are saying there was a complaint to UEFA before the game), disallowed goal, etc., etc., but they won and that’s that.
Good luck Sweden!
Well, since everyone else is in shock - I think it’s time to invade Switzerland, as they’ve just shown us exactly how neutral they really are.
Portugal got away with numerous blatant fouls; England had a legitimate goal disallowed. That ref should be disbarred immediately, without doubt.
Well I didn’t think it was possible, but there actually is someone out there that makes Mike Riley and Graham Poll look good. That was definitely up there amongst the top 10 worst refereed games. Sure England were second best for much of the game, but we defended well enough to put ourselves in the position to win the game when it counted, and the referee, who couldn’t have seen what happened from where he was standing, took it away from us after the linesman had ruled it a goal. :mad:
I feel sorry for Vassel. The ref gave him nothing all night and then to go and miss a penalty when the game should have been over half an hour before is just heart-breaking.
Holland? Sweden? Do us all a favour and dump the Portugese out. They don’t deserve to be there anymore.
Man, that was an exciting, though frustrating game. And while I admit that the team which generally seemed better ended up winning, that disallowed goal was RIDICULOUS.
David Beckham, however, should hide his head in shame. Sheesh. To get a penalty saved is one thing. To miss the goal entirely is inexcusable.
So MaxTheVool, tell us! Did you really get charged $20 a head to see the game in a bar, as has been stated?
Gentlemen, if you’ll excuse me, i’m going to go and curl up into a ball and cry myself to sleep.
Didn’t you see the state of the penalty spot? If beckham didn’t cause it then it is surely to blame for his shot. Every player after him had to re-flatten it.
The worst thing about this game (apart from the disallowed goal) was the amount of times it looked like we were going to win it.