Phenotypic Dai
The girdle of Venus
Akinfeev in my FF team.
FTW
FTW
Spain - Russia
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Me too. Or a 4-1 battering for Russia.
I would probably back the swedes to come in second now. They're masters at reaching the second round of tournaments...
Donna Ferentes
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Streets not full of celebrating Spaniards, though to be fair it's pissing down here.
TrippyLondoner
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Akinfeev in my FF team.
FTW
lol he's goin outta my ff team now..
TrippyLondoner
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Unusually there are none here either.
I think it's because the money has run out. Hard times beginning to hit here. Very few tourists compared with last year. I thank the fuck I'm selling better elsewhere.
Concrete Meadow
ars longa vita brevis
re Villa
Yeah in our dreams
Really good game today! Cross our fingers, all the best to Spain!
Yeah in our dreams
Really good game today! Cross our fingers, all the best to Spain!
Spain are the best passing team in the tournament, they're an absolute joy to watch. The last time I saw football like that was Arsenal in the first 25 minutes of the Champions League game at Anfield. They've also got the best front two, so they'll always be a goalscoring threat. However, I see a couple of glitches, one minor and one major: they don't have a great deal of natural width or pace in the midfield (Silva and particularly Iniesta aren't really wingers, they tucked in most of the time), but if they can pass through teams like they did for the second goal than that's not too big a deal. The bigger problem (and this has been mentioned already) is the defence. I still rate the Dutch as the stronger all round unit.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Glad I had Villa in my fantasy league team 
Donna Ferentes
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Did you watch the TVE news last night? Amazingly, if you're used to England, they kept back the report on the match until the normal time for sports news, i.e. half-an-hour into the programme. All right, there's the tankers' strike going on, but even so I was surprised (and rather pleased).
Cuatro - the terrestrial channel showing games - have adopted the slogan podemos ("we can do it") which probably sums up the way Spanish people are thinking about the competition. They have brief vox pops in the street in which people say "podemos" - I assume these people are known Spanish figures, though I only recognised one of them, the ex-Izquierda Unida leader Gaspar Llamazares.
I think people here are beginning to get very concerned about the tankers' strike, oil prices, food shortages and the collapse of the construction industry. Tourism seems to be suffering lots and the full implications could hit Spain's economy far harder and faster than other European countries.
Zapatero has also frequently warned of hard times ahead, so naturally people are being a bit more conservative with their cash.
Still a football crazy country mind.
e2a; Hey look! We turned a football thread into a politics thread
Donna Ferentes
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Well, the strike coverage went on for about fifteen minutes, but even then the football wasn't second.
Not much fruit and veg in Mercadona this morning....
Not much fruit and veg in Mercadona this morning....
It's getting well shit here. SuperSol very low on everything. Panic buying allover the shop (fucking Spanish news. They should stick to the fucking football). Buses canceled everywhere. Few tourists. People stranded left right and center.
Some old guy I talked to today said "it's like war time". Erm... Yep!
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
too fucking right. just looked up the cost of flights to alicante to stay at g/f's uncle's flat in calpe and we're looking at >£1,000 for us 2 and me kids.I think people here are beginning to get very concerned about the tankers' strike, oil prices, food shortages and the collapse of the construction industry. Tourism seems to be suffering lots and the full implications could hit Spain's economy far harder and faster than other European countries.
Zapatero has also frequently warned of hard times ahead, so naturally people are being a bit more conservative with their cash.
Still a football crazy country mind.
e2a; Hey look! We turned a football thread into a politics thread
so looks like mainland uk early august for us. don't know about the rest of it but strength of euro versus £ doesn't help.
Fuck the exchange rate. It is actually getting this ugly:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7447869.stm
Strikes are being planned all over the World now. People seem to think it has nothing to do with the price of oil!!!
Should be in Politics, or even General, but I guess if it's being buried deep in the pages of the mainstream media it's not going to get a shout on the front pages here.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
That is quite mad eh? La revolucion?
Donna Ferentes
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I knew one striker had died, but not two. Mind you I missed the news last night for the football (I only saw it the previous day because terrestrial TV is showing one live game a day, normally the late one which clashes with the news, but the early one on Tuesday as it happened to be Spain).
Fuel prices quite imortant to me, as it happens, as we're about to take over this guy's business which involves giving English books fairs all over Spain.
Fuel prices quite imortant to me, as it happens, as we're about to take over this guy's business which involves giving English books fairs all over Spain.
Something I noticed was that Aragones had obviously decided that despite both Xavi and Fabregas being world class, he couldn't play them together. Might this be a lesson for England re. Gerrard and Lampard (although I'm not sure the latter can be called "world class")?
