Euro 2016 thread

[DungBeetle]

To be honest, when it comes to the summer if there are 3 international matches every day then I'm happy even if it is a bit stodgy!

Take out Ronaldo how many all time great strikers at the top of their game for all the major countries were actually on show this summer?  Hardly any.   It was a relatively poor quality, but competitive, renewal of the event imo.

Interesting point about lack of strikers. Ibra is an all-time great but didn't go too well for him. In fact  there were only (I think) 8 players there who had scored 20+ more goals in 1 of the big 5 european leagues in 15/16:

Ronaldo
Ibra
Lewandowski
Muller
Griezmann
Vardy
Kane
Aduriz

Good work from Hodgson to have 20% of the 20 goal men and still not have a clue what his best formation was by the abysmal exit!

[nirvana]

I only pay games around 70% attention these days, watched like that the whole thing seemed pretty deece to me - wonder if other countries viewed it the same way.

England crap as usual and far from playing without enough passion (commentator and pundit bollocks) they play with too much. If they were cool and good at football that would be a massive step in the right direction

Think people are way too concerned about goals per game and that sort of stuff - really enjoyed the final.  Not (m)any  games spent screaming at refs or players too much for specially ridic play acting. Only screaming reserved for the inane commentators banging on and on - half the time about games being boring...yah, cause you don't get football you mug

[aaron1867]

I'm not sure what you was asking Archer? I enjoyed Euro 2016, but I was expecting a lot better. I suspect if we all bet on 0-0 being the half time score in each match, we would all have had a very profitable tournament. Many of the games was drab, quite a few goals was down to comedy goalkeeping too! Could you name 3 really good matches at the tournament? The only really good game for goals I can remember was. Portugal v Hungary.

Away from that, will be happy to be Big Sam as manager of England. I think we really need to go back to basics and if it's long balls upto Kane to get us into QF's, SF's and beyond, then so be it.

[TightEnd]

the argument for big samuel