two goals in stoppage time??
Why?
Well the first one was a free kick, the second a penalty. Were you not watching?
It was a rhetorical why.
Why did England lose in such a stupid way. Why did (who was it, gerrard?) pass the ball to the french player in the first place.
Why is it that when England are winning a game 1-0 and the clock says 90 you just KNOW they are going to fuck it up somehow?
I believe thay did it so that those of us who had an allup bet of Portugal/Spain/France, would console ourselves by thinking “Thank God Portugal lost, this would have been terrible.” And then the bungling clods could snatch that feeling away.
An unbelievably exciting game, I must say. A heart-wrenching lost for England. It was a world class display of defending by England though (how many seemingly dangerous crossess were cleared comfortably by Campbell and King?). Hats off to the French for staying at it until the end. Zidane is still the best, IMO. I do think both teams should do well in the tournament.
Gerrard with a back pass to Henry who was clear in the penalty area :smack:
I hate when that happens.
Sincerely,
Bayern Munich, 1999
oh, you’re talking about football, I thought you were on about the rugby.
Lost that as well, tee hee!
2:30 a.m. in the morning… I was all ready to turn off the TV and go to bed. England had won their opening match, and pretty much guarranteed themselves a QF place. And then BAM - the match was suddenly alive again!
Heskey’s tackle was completely unnecessary, IMO. And Zidane’s free-kick was beautiful.
I still think England will go far though. Their defense was rock solid throughout the match, and Rooney totally terrorised the French rear end! They need to keep possession of the ball more though…
I’m afraid France outplayed England for most of the game, and England sat back for the last half-hour as if they were the last five minutes. It was unfortunate that they lost out in such a disasterous way, but they had it coming.
England deserved to lose for all the reasons mentioned already, as well as the crap that the commentators were spewing.
I have to agree with this - the only consolation is that both Croatia and Switzerland looked rubbish earlier in the day, so England should go through easily enough…
My colleagues will only talk about cricket this morning 
Grim
Well, Twisty, my old mate, unlike the non-English football fans who live in GB, you had a choice; you could have watched the match on RTÉ.
If you hate the British commentators so much, why bother to watch their pro-England coverage?
It isn’t as though you didn’t know what to expect, now is it? 
How can you bear to have missed the weighty opinions and sharp analysis of such footy luminaries as Denis Irwin? Liam Brady? Eamon Dunphy? Johnny Giles and George “I-comment-on-every-bloody-sport-in-the-whole-known-universe” Hamilton?
I’m surprised at you!
I only caught the second half, as I went to dinner (Salamanca, lovely) with the good lady Tir on the occasion of our second aniversary. We ajourned to our local after the meal where they had the match on, and I was in no position to change the channel
I expect a certain amount of Pro-Home Team commentating from the British sports reporting, but there is no way on earth that Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland would get even the same amount of pap said during their games that Martin Tyler or Clive Tillsley come out with. the ITV commentator I heard last night was this close to mentioning the war!
I don’t mind the BBC when John Motson is commentating as regardless of the teams he’s a very effective and descriptive commentator.
I dispise RTÉ’s coverage that involves George Hamilton. Incredibly bad commentator. Bill Herlihy thinks he’s watching the rugger, so he gets a pass, and I love Dumphy and Giles. Ryle Nugent can feck off back to Foxrock.
Ok, at least Steven Gerrard played well until his moment of madness, but once again I have to ask what the hell Emile Heskey is doing in Portugal as anything other than a spectator. Christ, even Liverpool have realised he’s a big bag of shite and offloaded him to Birmingham. Why can’t Sven see that?
On the positive notes, Ledley King played surprisingly well and even Ashley Cole managed a tackle or two. And Lampard and Rooney both looked very good too.
The words “banjo” and “Cow’s arse” spring to mind every time Heskey is mentioned. He’s a big strong David Connolly IMO.