Euro 2016

[fsn]

I was listening to the Radio 4 report, and I laughed and I lauhed and I laughed. Fortunately I wasn't driving, but the Icelandic commentator made for  absolute quality listening.

Someone has twittered "Tuesday: Andy Murray out of Wimbledon. Wednesday: Stonehenge falls down. Thursday: Tea found to be bad for you."

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

They played brilliantly, England were awful. All the passing and back passes, whereas Iceland were aggressive.
I'm definitely supporting them in the next round, if only because their clap is astounding!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Thursday: Tea found to be bad for you."

Don't need to wait till Thursday, it makes me vomit. 

And what's this Wimbledon thing ?

IanS

[paulr]

According to our news the coach is a part timer, a dentist apparently...

[fsn]

Cue the teeth puns? ... of course, who could resist? Here's a couple to start you off. 


Well, he has certainly seen to England's extraction.

Iceland are a well drilled team.

[Techno]

No point in getting you to chew your own coat, is there, Nobby ? 

Cheers - Phil (I heard on the radio that a petition has been started, to have the match replayed..... )

[Westmarcher]

Cheers - Phil (I heard on the radio that a petition has been started, to have the match replayed..... )

[Westmarcher]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/05/17/iceland-euro-2016-squad/

A fair amount of well known clubs there. There's only a handful I've never heard of before. Its amazing what a diet of fish, boiled sheep's head, ram's testicles and raw puffin hearts can do.

[Le Manchou]

Sigthorsson plays for my hometown club, FC Nantes,but only scored 3 goals this season!

[Dazza]

England follow the Brexit vote - Out of Europe

[Roy]

if only because their clap is astounding!

Is there a specific type of 'that problem' known as the Icelandic Clap? I bet the Icelandic Tourist Board and the NHS doesn't advise us on that when we're looking at going on our holidays!  

[Roy]

Also, I don't know whether to be ashamed or not?
I chose Iceland to win, as part of an Internet football prediction game over on another gaming forum. I only meant it as a joke, but look what happened ... I won a lot of points from guessing right and am now near the top of the player league. I'm not surrendering my points haul, joke or not 

[pierre the shy]

Well Done Iceland - the English team's exit seems to be the No 1 subject even in the NZ media today.

[Chad]

Perhaps we will now realise that all the foreign players in English teams are ruining the opportunities for home grown talent. I remember that someone looked at the premier league (2014 I think) and redid the the final table by eliminating all goals scored by foreign players. The result, Man City would have been bottom. That said it all to me. Congratulations to the Icelandic TEAM, we didn't have one.

[Subedai]

Carrying that idea a little further I also remember reading that only one third of the premiership players were actually English...says it all.

Congratulations to Iceland, they deserved the win because not to put too fine a point on it but England were absolutely woeful. After following England since '66 I cannot remember such a collectively sh*te performance. Shearer put into words what a lot of people had been thinking, myself included, that they went to a major tournament on the back of a successful qualifying campaign without really being tested; the manager said he did not know his best team or his best system and he took players that had hardly any game time -ie Sterling, Henderson and Wilshire instead of players who were in form ie Drinkwater and Townsend.
   What really amazed me was that -without taking anything away from Vardy- was that all the European teams latched onto the fact that if you play a deep defence you give him next to no space to run into and use his tremendous pace. I can't think of one Premiership team who played this way, all the defences were high up the pitch. Come to think of it, all our players were nullified by a much better organised and purposeful Icelandic team.

We have had a wake-up call, like Germany did in 2004, it's up to the FA to sort out the problem like they did...or more likely do FA about it.

MickS