UEFA Euro 2012 - Quarter-finals - ** spoilers **
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Soldato
The England game will be on the BBC. 
The England game will be on the BBC.
Nice, let me know if you see about any others. I can't find anything solid on them (or what I've found are all conflicting reports), very odd.
Soldato
Think the Beeb have the Germans and the other two are ITV.
Don
Can't believe this team can get to the semis! If Roy plays the right team we can bet Italy playing rubbish football 
Soldato
Can't really see England beating Italy to be honest. Anyway it's looking like it will be a Spain v Germany final.
Soldato
It will be a very cagey game vs Italy and whichever team is brave will come out on top. I do fancy our attack over theirs though and Chiellini is a big loss at the back for them.
Soldato
Even if England go out against italy ' I think Roy has come out of this ok. He's said the right things kept expectations realistic and above all appears to have england thinking and playing a team
Soldato
Greece to cause an upset in the next round and win the tournament 
Italy has barrels of luck and so has England it will be the team that rides that luck that will reach the semis.
Italy has barrels of luck and so has England it will be the team that rides that luck that will reach the semis.
Soldato
Balotelli to get red carded.
Caporegime
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Can't believe this team can get to the semis! If Roy plays the right team we can bet Italy playing rubbish football
Why on earth wouldn't we get to the quarter finals, do people still not get that 2 teams in 90% of champs league groups, euro groups, europa groups, World cup group stages are ****, somewhere between meh and complete gash. First knock out stage is the bare minimum any HALF DECENT team should expect, its as simple as that.
This "it will be a miracle to get out of the group stages" mentality is insane, it happens with every competition then people act surprised that a average England side can beat two awful sides and qualify for the knockout stages. Beating a decent side would be impressive and unexpected, we haven't faced a half decent side yet.
hell England fans express the same surprise when we get into a competition by beating some truly awful sides in the qualifiers, I'll point out that Ireland qualified for the Euro's and were rightfully battered. Sweden and Ukraine aren't far ahead of Ireland and are miles behind the top teams.
Italy are better than I would have thought, as they've been god awful for a long time now. They got battered in the first knock out stages at the last Euro's after getting 4 points in a group with Romania and that god awful France in, and they came rock bottom in the World cup behind New Zealand.
We can and maybe should beat Italy, who outside of drawing with a side with no strikers haven't done a whole hell of a lot in this competition so far.
Beating Italy would be decent but not mindblowing, beating Germany would be a freaking miracle, if Greece fluke a win against Germany I'd put money on us to beat Greece. If we then beat anyone in the final I'd be shocked.
There are only two top teams in the tournament, full stop, Spain and Germany. It's not surprising if Spurs beat Blackburn and Villa, but lose to Utd and City... that is the situation we're in right now. England are well above most teams in the world because most teams are meh, international football is no where near prem league/la liga in quality. But beating Villa doesn't make you capable of beating Utd, I fully expect in most cases for England/Spurs to be able to get to a stage and beat teams up to Czech/Everton, but look out of their depth against the top 2-3 teams.
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Man of Honour
This match seems really winnable for england.
Like many people, can't believe england actually have a shout at the semi final. Who would have thought it?
Like many people, can't believe england actually have a shout at the semi final. Who would have thought it?
I'd love that to happen, he's one of my most hated footballers.
It would be rubbing salt into the wound if he scored the winner though.
Caporegime
'James Milner wary of Mario Balotelli threat'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18524853
Lets play of a game of blankety blank lads.
Mario Balotelli wary of James Milner ___________
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18524853
Lets play of a game of blankety blank lads.
Mario Balotelli wary of James Milner ___________
challenging cryptic crossword puzzles
Soldato
He's just like an 18 year old Rooney on steroids with sever anger issues.
I wonder what he was going to say when he scored for Italy in the last game. Such an idiot.
Caporegime
Apparently he was trying to shout over to Prandelli about why he should have started / been subbed on sooner.
Associate
Apart from Spain on pens in '96, when was the last time England beat a "major" team in a knockout match ? I don't recall another occasion since 1966. This is what worries me 
