Euros / Ingerland Hype

[OneBardGooner]

I wonder how well Italy tops are selling in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Liverpool?

Mine fits like a glove!

[OneBardGooner]

I wonder how well Italy tops are selling in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Liverpool?

Imagine willingly dropping 50+ notes on a football shirt belonging to a country that isn't your own, just to support them for one game.

Worth every Lira !

[OneBardGooner]

Sterling on ITV when asked about the penalty:
“He stuck his leg out and I…….he clipped my leg!” So he was about to say “I went down”.
Cheating is never right and it makes it a hollow victory. If it was the other way round, can you imagine the replays and outrage.

Hahaha hollow victory, yeah right

I don’t like diving either but fuck it, we’re in our first final in 55 years. The in’s and out’s of how we got there over the last 2 years of qualification are now totally irrelevant. All eyes now on Sunday!

So you say you don’t like diving either, but fuck it if it’s in our favour? It’s either acceptable either way and you take it or plain cheating and totally wrong. You can’t have it both ways. Rooney in the 49th game? Did you say ‘fuck it’ and just accept it back then? I doubt it. And the Italians were rightly crucified for their antics in the last 10 minutes against Belgium but England (Kane, Grealish, Sterling etc) were ‘clever’? Absolute double standards.

Spot on.You cant have a go at divers then when it goes your way turn around and say who cares get on with it

Last night Sterling Kane and Grealish seemed to be in a competition to see who could do the most dives.But because they had an England shirt on the media turned a blind eye to it..There's talk of the FA putting a swimming pool on the pitch for the final

Old Ernie’s back again.

Give your mate Bert a call. You can bore him to tears with your shite.

I know its a Gif DB but it's a good un and deffo not porn... Honest...Mind you Roddaz might rub one out to a furry muppet!

[DB10GOONER]

C'mon G88ner give a realistic example

In the debate over Rugby/Boxing/Football I'll just mention Clive is classed as a professional.....

Only by cùnts though.

[DB10GOONER]

Sterling on ITV when asked about the penalty:
“He stuck his leg out and I…….he clipped my leg!” So he was about to say “I went down”.
Cheating is never right and it makes it a hollow victory. If it was the other way round, can you imagine the replays and outrage.

Hahaha hollow victory, yeah right

I don’t like diving either but fuck it, we’re in our first final in 55 years. The in’s and out’s of how we got there over the last 2 years of qualification are now totally irrelevant. All eyes now on Sunday!

So you say you don’t like diving either, but fuck it if it’s in our favour? It’s either acceptable either way and you take it or plain cheating and totally wrong. You can’t have it both ways. Rooney in the 49th game? Did you say ‘fuck it’ and just accept it back then? I doubt it. And the Italians were rightly crucified for their antics in the last 10 minutes against Belgium but England (Kane, Grealish, Sterling etc) were ‘clever’? Absolute double standards.

Oh come on mate, what would your reaction be if Arsenal won the champions league via a sterling type dive against Barca? Personally I’d be celebrating but if you’d be the only gooner sat stoned faced in the corner deriding us all for celebrating a “hollow” victory then that’s weird, but totally up to you

Personally it would leave a bad taste in my mouth. OK not as bad as Kerry Katona's dirty old burst hedgehog but deffo same ballpark.

Cheating is cheating g88ner. You sir are a bit of a cùnt.

[xgtdec]

I hate the divers in the game. A part of me never forgave Pires for the Pompey dive tbh (and I fucking love Pires) but the slaughtering he got and still gets was way over the top. That one dive was the only dive he took and yet he is known in the PL as a Diver.

It always pissed me off that at the same time Slippy Me and Granny Botherer were diving week in week out and that was being totally ignored by the media.

In one sense I can understand why the likes of Fat Tongue, Scuba and the Girlfriend Basher dive. The Italians, Argentinians and Spanish (amongst others) have gotten away with it for decades. But what for me always separated the English game from the rest was the inherent honesty on the pitch. Diving was frowned upon. Remember Nutty reading the riot act on the pitch to Suker for diving?

As I say in one way I can understand it but I can never condone it. It is killing the game as a spectacle. Its embarrassing to see these strong fit grown ass men go over like children.

Football used to be a man's game ffs. Its now becoming almost unwatchable.

Making it worse is the complete abortion VAR that was brought in to stop this shit and yet week after week game after game fails to make the right decision.

I wouldnt say footballers are strong fit men. Rugby players tend to weigh between 90-100kg on average. Some can weight 120 kg and a 'small' player tops the scales at around 80kg. Saka is 65kg, Grealish 68kg, Foden 70kg. Some Rugby players can 100m 11 seconds even at 100KG.

If there is one thing footballers are not, its athletes. When you compare their physique to boxers or rugby players, there is a massive difference. I reckon Anthony Joshua's body mass is double Saka.

Mate you are pretty clueless on most things you post on here (remember Clinton?? ) but you've outdone yourself there!!

Footballers run far further, faster and more often on a pitch than Rugby players whose game is slow tedious and stop / start. I've played in matches where local rugby players thought they'd turn up and "show the soccer boys a thing or two" and we left them for dead pace-wise, fitness-wise and physically too. They might love a good old wrestle but you hit them with a sliding tackle at a hundred miles an hour and they fold.

Boxers??!! You put any boxer on a football pitch and ask him to do the amount of running Saka does and you'll see a dead boxer in about 30 minutes. They have totally different stamina thresholds and fitness types ffs.

Jesus I've read some horseshit on here over the years but you should get an award for that post!

I can comment on the rugby, never played it.

But even a half decent fit boxer will last a footballers running on a pitch, Skillz and tekkers aside obviously the footballers winning that department all day and has to definitely be more agile on a pitch for twists and turn etc. But what...12k average over 90 minutes in short periods of bursts and rests....any boxer would lap it up, part of a boxers regular training.

Not that simple. You have to add in how psychologically tiring football is precisely because of the agility requirement, the constant change of pace and direction, the constant thinking about the next ball, the pressures of team sport over 90 minutes, the tekkers, etc - and then look at boxer classes and the fatigue and wear muscle mass and weight place on the legs, knees and ankles. No heavyweight boxer is gonna do 90 minutes at full pelt on a football pitch more than once, never mind every three days. Not a chance. A middleweight might.

Well now im my defense i was just going on the running aspect, although im pretty sure that even a heavyweight could contribute more than some of the deadweight we have at the moment. In my fantasy team of boxer/football hybrids i'd have mostly middleweights with maybe 2 lightweights and 1 heavy, now granted the teams only been in existence for about 30 minutes so its a work in progress.

To even it up for the poor big lads we can slap 40Kg of vest onto saka and foden etc and they should roughly run out of steam around the same time.

Although it would be nice for the heavyweight to give Kane and co a reason for hitting the floor!

[DB10GOONER]

I wouldnt say footballers are strong fit men. Rugby players tend to weigh between 90-100kg on average. Some can weight 120 kg and a 'small' player tops the scales at around 80kg. Saka is 65kg, Grealish 68kg, Foden 70kg. Some Rugby players can 100m 11 seconds even at 100KG.

If there is one thing footballers are not, its athletes. When you compare their physique to boxers or rugby players, there is a massive difference. I reckon Anthony Joshua's body mass is double Saka.

Mate you are pretty clueless on most things you post on here (remember Clinton?? ) but you've outdone yourself there!!

Footballers run far further, faster and more often on a pitch than Rugby players whose game is slow tedious and stop / start. I've played in matches where local rugby players thought they'd turn up and "show the soccer boys a thing or two" and we left them for dead pace-wise, fitness-wise and physically too. They might love a good old wrestle but you hit them with a sliding tackle at a hundred miles an hour and they fold.

Boxers??!! You put any boxer on a football pitch and ask him to do the amount of running Saka does and you'll see a dead boxer in about 30 minutes. They have totally different stamina thresholds and fitness types ffs.

Jesus I've read some horseshit on here over the years but you should get an award for that post!

I can comment on the rugby, never played it.

But even a half decent fit boxer will last a footballers running on a pitch, Skillz and tekkers aside obviously the footballers winning that department all day and has to definitely be more agile on a pitch for twists and turn etc. But what...12k average over 90 minutes in short periods of bursts and rests....any boxer would lap it up, part of a boxers regular training.

Not that simple. You have to add in how psychologically tiring football is precisely because of the agility requirement, the constant change of pace and direction, the constant thinking about the next ball, the pressures of team sport over 90 minutes, the tekkers, etc - and then look at boxer classes and the fatigue and wear muscle mass and weight place on the legs, knees and ankles. No heavyweight boxer is gonna do 90 minutes at full pelt on a football pitch more than once, never mind every three days. Not a chance. A middleweight might.

Well now im my defense i was just going on the running aspect, although im pretty sure that even a heavyweight could contribute more than some of the deadweight we have at the moment. In my fantasy team of boxer/football hybrids i'd have mostly middleweights with maybe 2 lightweights and 1 heavy, now granted the teams only been in existence for about 30 minutes so its a work in progress.

To even it up for the poor big lads we can slap 40Kg of vest onto saka and foden etc and they should roughly run out of steam around the same time.

Although it would be nice for the heavyweight to give Kane and co a reason for hitting the floor!

Would love to see Fat Tongue on the receiving end of a heavyweight haymaker!

[BobbyPires7]

Short memories here…

Sterling’s pen was pretty much a carbon copy of the Saka pen vs Villarreal in the Europa semi. Can’t be bothered to trawl through the old match thread but the majority view was that he won the pen and was gratefully received.

Anti-English bias. Nothing more to see here.

[GoonerMuzz]

Bobby, Saka is English and you are saying people didn't criticise that, so hardly anti-English bias is it, nice contradiction though

Saka's was a dive, i think even a few people said it was at the time but with Sterling and Kane for England but especially for their club teams they do it time after time after time and as for Grealish he needs to be pegged down in a strong wind just in case he is blown away. Compare him to Saka constantly trying to beat players and take them on and it is like night and day, there is a reason Grealish has been the most fouled player two seasons in a row and not had a serious injury from any of them......

[Clummo99]

I believe he was referring to the fact that Saka was playing for us in that match, not the fact that he's English.

[DB10GOONER]

Short memories here…

Sterling’s pen was pretty much a carbon copy of the Saka pen vs Villarreal in the Europa semi. Can’t be bothered to trawl through the old match thread but the majority view was that he won the pen and was gratefully received.

Anti-English bias. Nothing more to see here.

"Anti-English bias"? Pull your head in ffs.

Saka's was a dive too. Most acknowledged it at the time. The difference here is that your problem seems to be that you cannot accept that your hero the Girlfriend Basher took a dive. He dived. Deal with it. Move on with your life. Post some stuff about how you "have contacts in the club" and you'll feel better!

[GoonerMuzz]

We all regularly mention Harry Kane, Sterling and Grealish for their diving during the premier League season so again calling them out for it when playing football for England is hardly anti-English but whatever.

Proud Dad moment though this morning, my 15 year daughter who isn't the most avid football fan but watches with me sometimes was asking me who was decent in the Italy team, when I mentioned immobile and his antics her exact words were 'so Harry Kane but Italian'

[DB10GOONER]

It's officially a dive. Sterling is officially vermin.

Jamie Carragher has "written" a passionate defence of the Girlfriend Basher:

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/ja ... ar-AALVuuT

Yes, Jamie Carragher, bastion of public decency, good old honest mouser* - oh hang on sorry, a bloke that fucking spits at children.

I challenge anyone to read Spit The Scouse's "article" and not feel nauseous....

.....except g88ner and BobbyPires7, you guys can give it a miss.

[DB10GOONER]

We all regularly mention Harry Kane, Sterling and Grealish for their diving during the premier League season so again calling them out for it when playing football for England is hardly anti-English but whatever.

Proud Dad moment though this morning, my 15 year daughter who isn't the most avid football fan but watches with me sometimes was asking me who was decent in the Italy team, when I mentioned immobile and his antics her exact words were 'so Harry Kane but Italian'

Clever girl.

Speaking of Italians though..... given their entire team's penchant for diving and the triumvirate of cheating cùnts (Scuba, Fat Tongue and Girlfriend Basher) playing for England I think this final might actually be unwatchable....

[Clummo99]

I can imagine Carragher would have thought exactly the same if he was the player that was penalised for that challenge. Of course he wouldn't have gone apoplectic and got right in the ref's face shouting "he fùcking dived, I didn't touch him"

Always the fair player that accepted every decision against him.