Thanx, chique. Thing is this whole match has turned into a bizarre mix of footy and water-polo.
27 fouls at the half!
This is great. They’re taking their life into their hands every time they try to pass back to the keeper. Not great for the Swiss tourist board, though. Is the weather always this relentlessly shit in June?
I can’t see them calling off the match, in the middle of a busy TV schedule. Unless there’s an earthquake that cleaves the pitch in two. If this was an everyday league game, maybe, but I bet the referee is under pressure to see this game out.
Actually the rain’s died down quite a bit. Might even get to see some football in the second half.
Not sure what that was in the first…
Balta just tried a Maradona on a Turck FK into the Swiss area. Neither God nor Allah helped though – all he got was a yellow.
Isn’t this the ref that gave out a gazillion cards in the 2006 World Cup?
Turks came out on fire, nice cross from Nihat, headed by their #6. One all. Swiss goalie, IMO, should have tried to come out to intercept the cross. Nothing doing with the header itself.
You are right. Ref’s Ľuboš Micheľ and although he is rather card-happy, pitch conditions make slides and fouls rather unavoidable.
Scolari to become the new coach at Chelsea? Anyone heard anything else; the details were pretty sparse.
(From the ESPN Gamecast)
yeah, that’s in the BBC commentary as well: BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Chelsea | Scolari named as Chelsea manager
On 73’ a lone Nihat couldn’t get to a flat cross into an empty net by a mere inch.
Crap footy. Intensity to spare.
double-posted
'tis making the rounds. If true, it’ll be really weird. Imagine actually enjoying watching a Chelsea match :eek:
I feel the need to convey just how loathsome English football presenters and commentators can be. Both BBC and ITV. On the Beeb, we have Gary Lineker telling us in advance how Switzerland vs. Turkey is going to be boring, with his chums on the panel chortling away in the background. Then at half time, he jokes about the possibility of a cancellation and rematch tomorrow, per UEFA rules. “Whoopee”, he quips.
Fuck you, Lineker. I’m actually enjoying this game and don’t need halfwits like you and your golfing buddies to tell me what and what not to like. Why not cut to another of your England features. That’s right, features about the team that did not qualify for and does not feature in Euro 2008.
Grrr. It fucks me off, and I am English! Presumptuous twats.
Meanwhile on ITV, we have Clive Tyldesley, who I don’t think is really interested in international football. He constantly brings things back to how player X does, did, or will play for an English club. Usually Manchester United. He’s in heaven commentating on a Portugal game, because he can bang on about Ronaldo and Man U for 90 minutes.
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Blimey, that rant went on a bit longer than I planned :eek:
85’ in. Another great double save by the Turkish keeper.
This is why football is by far the world’s best sport.
Arda scores on the third minute of injury time. Turkey wins 2-1.
Swiss out. Winner of Turkey/CR gets second. And there needs to be a winner even if it gets to PKs. No tiebreakers in between them favor either one.
Cracking match if only because of the incredible drama…and finish.
And Turkey scores in extra time to steal the points. That will make for an interesting final group game between Turkey and Czech Republic to see who advances. The Swiss a bit unlucky not to get a point, but that’s how it goes sometimes.
Holy crap. I’m going to be looking forward to watching this tonight. 
From wikipedia:
*Czech Republic will qualify if they win or draw in their match against Turkey
*Turkey will only qualify if they beat Czech Republic
What are the tiebreakers?
Goal difference. There is none between the two (2-3). So I don’t see how Wiki can say that the Czech can go through with a tie.
Open to corrections though.
Wikipedia now agrees with you:
“The winner of the Turkey vs Czech Republic game will qualify for the quarter-finals. If the game finishes as a draw, the qualifying team will be determined by a penalty shootout.”
I can’t remember this happening before in a Euro or a World Cup. Has it happened before?
I don’t think so. Closest I can remember is the 1990 World Cup, when second and third place in one group were determined by the drawing of lots, not penalties. Ireland benefited, but third place Netherlands also went through because in those days it was a complicated “best 16 from 24” system in the group stages.