England vs Sweden

[SpookyFrank]

I like the way UEFA still do studs checks for subs - "Oh good, you haven't got sharpened metal studs on. OK, you can play" - we used o get that playing at school

It was the nylon studs I hated. They always left little splinters in your leg after the PE teacher's unbookable son had trampled all over you

 

[souljacker]

Come on England, use all the premier league cheating skills you know to kill this game!

 

[ddraig]

ooh

 

[Espresso]

God. I can hardly look

 

[not-bono-ever]

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

 

[Badgers]

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

I will raise you n

 

[twentythreedom]

the lad welbeck done good

 

[ska invita]

come on england...one for the road

 

[Badgers]

come on england...one for the road

2
2 from Carroll

 

[N_igma]

Haha Gerrard stealing the ball from the young fella!

 

[agricola]

If Gerrard had left that to Oxlade-Chamberlain it would have been 4-2.

 

[ska invita]

nice to hear the brass playing you have to admit

 

[ska invita]

super human header, jedi goalie melting drop kick and a reverse back heel...easy! next....

 

[magneze]

Good game, good win. Shocking defending on both goals though.

 

[not-bono-ever]

ah fuck it

good game though

 

[agricola]

Not that this is a high bar to get over, but - two stupid / lucky moments aside - thats the best English performance at a tournament since 96, no?

 

[N_igma]

If Gerrard had left that to Oxlade-Chamberlain it would have been 4-2.

And if Oxlade-Chamberlain hit and missed you'd be saying if Gerrard hit it it would have been 4-2.

 

[Gingerman]

Edge of the seat stuff in the 2nd half.

 

[Gingerman]

Not that this is a high bar to get over, but - two stupid / lucky moments aside - thats the best English performance at a tournament since 96, no?

Croatia and Switzerland in 2004 ?

 

[ska invita]

you're going home in a volvo minibus!

 

[quimcunx]

so who won?

 

[butchersapron]

Tell me it's not ours

 

[ska invita]

so who won?

football

 

[tommers]

The commentator said 'why is watching England always so torrid?'

He is an idiot. That was what football is all about. A great game.

 

[JimW]

Not quite the assured and clinical one I'd hoped for, but that'll do

 

[Gingerman]

Not a quality match, but both teams worked fucking hard for it

 

[sunny jim]

Pheww! That was the game of the tournament! Nice one England for nearly giving me a cardiac arrest, but so glad we won!

 

[JimW]

Seem a bit easily harried in midfield still.

 

[tommers]

football

 

[agricola]

Croatia and Switzerland in 2004 ?

This was better, IMHO - the comeback was great, plus it made a legion of hacks ditch their pre-prepared "Woy is shit / Arry is out of a job / Rio would have stopped those goals" stories.