Caporegime
Was that Cleverley with the pass? Great ball and finish
Men's Olympic Football Tournament ** spoilers **
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Lovely finish by sturidge.
Soldato
Yep, I think it was. Cracking ball.
It all depends on how big a part he's got to play. If he's on £80k per week as reported then if he's not able to play 70+% of our games then he's an expensive squad player.
Caporegime
Spain biggest flop ever? How on earth did they manage that?
Soldato
How is it the biggest flop ever? did they have xavi and co playing?
Caporegime
Joint favourites going out after losing to Japan and Honduras? That's a pretty big flop.
Soldato
Juan mata? how can he play? he just played in the euro's
Caporegime
So did Alba and Martinez.
The whole 'Can only play in one or the other' thing was only an English FA thing wasn't it?
It's not an actual stipulation of either tournament afaik
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I was at the Japan and Spain games today and how Spain didn't score is beyond me. I'm pretty sure they hit the post 4 times. It was such great entertainment though.
Yep it was just an 'agreement' between Team GB and the English clubs that Euro players wouldn't be used, although Butland has been picked anyway.
I may be wrong but I think the Spanish season starts later than ours.
BBC saw sense and ditched that hideous sound effect that played everytime before and after a replay!
\o/
Now all we need them to do is sort out the overlay graphics:
-3 lines of fat text permanently on screen to scores and time = fail. Put them all on the same line like normal football shows so it stays all up the top of the screen in the crowd.
-When a goal is scored some massive whacking great opaque box appears overlaying the pitch.
So basically it looks like this:
GBR: 1
UAE: 0
33:10 / 1ST
Middle 5th of screen where you can actually watch the bloody football.
GREAT BRITAIN....................................................................1
UAE...................................................................................0
Good job they made it that wide just so they can handle the inevitable 21345234523000243582834528811 - 1999999123983428338 scoreline eh?
I may be wrong but I think the Spanish season starts later than ours.
BBC saw sense and ditched that hideous sound effect that played everytime before and after a replay!
\o/Now all we need them to do is sort out the overlay graphics:
-3 lines of fat text permanently on screen to scores and time = fail. Put them all on the same line like normal football shows so it stays all up the top of the screen in the crowd.
-When a goal is scored some massive whacking great opaque box appears overlaying the pitch.
So basically it looks like this:
GBR: 1
UAE: 0
33:10 / 1ST
Middle 5th of screen where you can actually watch the bloody football.
GREAT BRITAIN....................................................................1
UAE...................................................................................0
Good job they made it that wide just so they can handle the inevitable 21345234523000243582834528811 - 1999999123983428338 scoreline eh?
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Soldato
BBC saw sense and ditched that hideous sound effect that played everytime before and after a replay!
Excellent news. I have a friend at the BBC and I jokingly asked him to get someone to take it off.
Anyway, I was there at both games today and it was one of the best days of my life. Great games. Uruguay got owned by Senegal, who are a rather scary bunch. Glad we got them out of our way.
Spain are out.
Good we can have Mata back now.
Caporegime
Spain should have action taken against them tbh, there was a lot of pushing the ref by their players in the last 5 mins.
Soldato
ahh i see but what will happen in the next olympics as i assume GB will have a footy team for that?
they would have to qualify right? and play well in advance as a team for qualification.
what will this do to the euro's?
The likes of Ramsey and sturrage will definetly wont be in team GB in 4 years as they will most likely be household named in wales/england and be too busy playing qualification matches on there respective countries.
Why the hell is there a team GB in olympics but not on cricket? football and rugby?
Either mate GB official on all sports or ditch it completely and let england/wales/scotland compete individually in every sport including olympics