UEFA EURO 2020

[AlterEgo]

It's only a game of Football !!

If you win great, if not at least you made it to the Final and gave yourselves a fighting chance.

A very charitable take from north of the border!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whether England or Italy win, we will still have to carry on as normal the day afterwards. The drawback of England progressing as far as they have done is just a convenient excuse for never-ending media hype that they afflict on the public at large.

 

[Cowley]

I’m already nervous about Sunday. I feel sick thinking about it!

I listened to a bit of the post match stuff and a couple of podcasts and enjoyed it all (felt a bit surreal to be honest). I’m now going to ignore anything to do with football until about an hour before the match just for my own sanity really.
As far as the game goes what will be will be. We’ve clearly progressed a long way over this last few years and even if we lose tomorrow night just getting ourselves into these positions is something to celebrate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

They'll get a slap on the wrist and a fine.

Not sure about "a slap on the wrist", but the fine imposed on the English FA amounted to 30,000 euros, for the various behaviour offences committed by the England supporters.

 

[birchesgreen]

Not sure about "a slap on the wrist", but the fine imposed on the English FA amounted to 30,000 euros, for the various behaviour offences committed by the England supporters.

Wow, they probably spend more than that on lunch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wow, they probably spend more than that on lunch.

But it was not the English FA who committed the offences, but the England supporters. Could not UEFA have also imposed draconian strictures that would have an effect on the England supporters by cutting the numbers of them allowed inside the stadium to watch the match?

 

[Ianno87]

But it was not the English FA who committed the offences, but the England supporters. Could not UEFA have also imposed draconian strictures that would have an effect on the England supporters by cutting the numbers of them allowed inside the stadium to watch the match?

A bit unfair to punish the vast, vast majority of supporters who did nothing wrong.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A bit unfair to punish the vast, vast majority of supporters who did nothing wrong.

It needs something as draconian as this to make all of them realise that a group punishment is one way to punish the wrongdoers. This is why Britain gives the impression as being "soft" on wrongdoers.

 

[Ianno87]

It needs something as draconian as this to make all of them realise that a group punishment is one way to punish the wrongdoers.

The perpetrators won't care about that. They'll do it again.

 

[birchesgreen]

Probably best to kick England out of the tournament and bring Denmark back, heh

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The perpetrators won't care about that. They'll do it again.

It will be at that point when England will face a ban in participating from events such as this.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

It will be at that point when England will face a ban in participating from events such as this.

Have Bulgaria been banned from any tournaments following their racial abuse of England players in the last few years? That was far worse than anything England supporters have done in quite some time, and was not taken seriously by that nation's governing body nor their government.

Booing a national anthem is crass, and ultimately will only encourage the opposing team to raise their game... but it certainly isn't something that causes any actual harm. All this pearl-clutching over it is frankly pathetic.

 

[adrock1976]

Have Bulgaria been banned from any tournaments following their racial abuse of England players in the last few years? That was far worse than anything England supporters have done in quite some time, and was not taken seriously by that nation's governing body nor their government.

Booing a national anthem is crass, and ultimately will only encourage the opposing team to raise their game... but it certainly isn't something that causes any actual harm. All this pearl-clutching over it is frankly pathetic.

I'm not having a go at anybody here so as to make things clear, but did English clubs get barred from participating in the European club tournaments for five years after the Heysel Disaster in 1985 caused by an element of Liverpool hooligans?

 

[Darandio]

But it was not the English FA who committed the offences, but the England supporters. Could not UEFA have also imposed draconian strictures that would have an effect on the England supporters by cutting the numbers of them allowed inside the stadium to watch the match?

Well no, that would affect income for UEFA and that just wouldn't work for them.

Regarding the fine, we've seen fans giving monkey chants and the relevant associations haven't even been fined that much. If people truly believe booing a national anthem deserves harsher penalities then you'll have to penalise half of Europe. The idea that we are the only country that does it is franly hilarious.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

No 3rd vs 4th place "bronze medal" decider tonight?

 

[Darandio]

No 3rd vs 4th place "bronze medal" decider tonight?

Hasn't happened in the Euros since 1980. Thank goodness.

 

[Mag_seven]

No 3rd vs 4th place "bronze medal" decider tonight?

Hasn't happened in the Euros since 1980. Thank goodness.

A completely meaningless game played by two sides who probably just want to go home.

Whoever remembers the team that came "third"?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

A completely meaningless game played by two sides who probably just want to go home.

Whoever remembers the team that came "third"?

Quite! As was the case in the World Cup in Russia.

(Belgium beating England 2-0 to finish the 2018 World Cup tournament in the coveted 3rd place position).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well no, that would affect income for UEFA and that just wouldn't work for them.

Who was it who decided where the final was to be played in this particular competition, which is being played a year later than scheduled?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I'm not having a go at anybody here so as to make things clear, but did English clubs get barred from participating in the European club tournaments for five years after the Heysel Disaster in 1985 caused by an element of Liverpool hooligans?

That's quite the false equivalency there. Kudos.

 

[Butts]

A very charitable take from north of the border!

Don't mention it.

The FA or Football Association is the original hence it needs no Country Identifier unlike all the others -Scottish Football Association et al.

It's time you claimed another Trophy to go with your World Cup, for surely as the pioneers it is your birthright.

 

[Cowley]

Don't mention it.

The FA or Football Association is the original hence it needs no Country Identifier unlike all the others -Scottish Football Association et al.

It's time you claimed another Trophy to go with your World Cup, for surely as the pioneers it is your birthright.

@Butts - stoppit.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Countdown minus 11 hours to the start of a mass outbreak of nervous exhaustion in England.

The BBC are feeling very smug and self-satisfied as last night, in one of those "BBC adverts", they were trumpeting "The BBC has the Men's Singles Final at Wimbledon and the EUFA 2020 final" on their channel.

 

[Jamesrob637]

A completely meaningless game played by two sides who probably just want to go home.

Whoever remembers the team that came "third"?

I only watched half of our third place play-off in 2018 and the place I was in was only as busy as you'd expect for a normal Saturday bearing in mind that the world was obviously pretty normal back 3 years ago!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Have Bulgaria been banned from any tournaments following their racial abuse of England players in the last few years? That was far worse than anything England supporters have done in quite some time, and was not taken seriously by that nation's governing body nor their government.

In recent times, have either FIFA or UEFA ever imposed any type of strictures on any national team football associations or the national team themselves specifically over the matter of racism?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

In recent times, have either FIFA or UEFA ever imposed any type of strictures on any national team football associations or the national team themselves specifically over the matter of racism?

Just relatively small fines (which are more symbolic than punitive) and being forced to play behind closed doors (a punishment that was somewhat hollow for the last 15 months). No bans or suspensions, though as Bulgaria are pretty rubbish, such a punishment would be equally pointless in this instance. They've fallen a long way since the days of Hristo Stoichkov.

 

[nlogax]

Prediction; Italy to win 3-1.

 

[Trackman]

In recent times, have either FIFA or UEFA ever imposed any type of strictures on any national team football associations or the national team themselves specifically over the matter of racism?

Hungary a couple of days ago. 3 match ban for supporters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Since England won the World Cup in 1966, Italy have been winners of:-
1968 ... European Championship
1882 ... World Cup
2006 ... World Cup
One can only but hope that their "Ultras" do not appear with mayhem in mind, whatever the final result is ...

I hope that Djokovic wins the Men's Singles Final, at Wimbledon today, as he is facing an opponent from Italy in the match and the Italian supporters of both sports will hope their country "does the double" in the Greater London area today

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Really?! (Link to LNER tweet of Newark Northgate station having been temporarily renamed for the day as Newark Southgate).

https://twitter.com/LNER/status/1414146709991665666?s=20