Tiresias

Greece will never repeat their previous feat with defending as it is

Was inevitable, Greece's left flank is embarassing

Liverpool. I'm surprised Kenny Dagliesh hasn't flown in to manage poland...having said that very unfair on team, it's a few awful fans is all

Poland are having some neat plays down that right hand side.

should have been a goal there

commentators nightmare game wooooooo

Please no-one 1-0ing it to the tourney again. Let's have ben arfa winning it with 4 hat tricks (and then saying go away when everyone tries to buy him lol)

Tbf I don't know what people want or expect from an opening ceremony, very silly, awful dj bloke, not too long, nice flag round crowd thing, alright

Uh oh kkk costumes are coming out...

Oh dear it's like eurovision all over again

ugly piano!

Congrats for Willo getting married!

Excited :frantic: :frantic: :frantic:

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq340/Sheenio_2008/shocked_meme.png HBA is on N-O! Hi Benny

Is it just me or does Debuchey have exactly the same hair as Cabaye? IT IS A SIGN

I think journo just kept asking but what if a top top team and benny just said well only if they 100% wanted me as their star or something trying to basically say it's unlikely and he's very happy where it is. Could be wishful thinking though

Think that's been lost in translation tbh because in the same interview there he waxes lyrical about how happy he is and how loved he feels here. I'm not worrying too much about it, what isn't in there is that the interviewer will have aggressively solicited that response. Yeah I think there's no need to panic over half translated fed to quotes. We have no reason to suppose he's unhappy, indeed he seems to have matured so much, I don't think he has especial loyalty to the club either but we are in a strong position to keep him imo, baring him becoming euro top scorer i suppose I think he'll have a great next season for us and then we'll get a huge offer from Real Madrid or something and he'll be gone and it'll be horrible

How long before this is interpreted as a come and get me plea? Long been obvious Ben Arfa doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut, I reckon he'll stay, management if they want to sell will wait till he's had a full season which will increase his value a fair amount from what we've seen. I hope we don't though, hard to replace. I don't think he's quite achieved enough this season for a big enough club to come in with a big offer and promise him first team footy, we know he's good enough but I think there'd have been more rumours by now.

I agree it's a tough one and absolutely my solution would punish the majority of fans who are no trouble. However I also don't believe that anything will be done about the issue without drastic action, for years clubs have been given only perfunctory fines for racism, and this has bred a lack of action. If we can target and ban the individual fans that would be great, I'm skeptical though if this will really stop it in the life span of this tourney. Hmmm tough one, fingers crossed it'll all be fine.

I'd consider banning home fans from games first

bloody hell if it's bad at training sessions already what's it going to be like at games.

Terry should be gone imo because we should have cleared out the old guard and all killed the rot in the team of players who blatently had no interest in playing with each other or for the team in South Africa. We should be digging deeper for players, realise our pool of youth is pretty shit but we need a team not a random collection of players.

Kalou is a hardworker but is just a bit meh for me, scores less than he should, always seemed a very poor finisher for me, may be an upgrade on obertan but that's not saying much and would surely have higher wage demands than better players who haven't been just about alright for chelsea for years.

Considering Birmingham's owner who can blame him for jumping, was good for them, and sad he didn't get them promoted, must be a bit sick to be a Birmingham fan