The Official Euro 2008 Thread (1 Viewer)

[LMF^^]

Turkey - Czech Republich, the game of the season. What a fucking game. Like our Fergie once said, "football, bloody hell."

 

[rwc]

so much passion from turkey in the second half .. brilliant! but Volkan, what a moron NOTHING is worth doing something stupid in the last minutes of a match like that..

other then that, was a very exciting match

 

[shannonm]

Before this year (a friendly, which meant hardly anything and neither team named their best side) the last time France lost to Spain was in 1981.

sigh... spain beat france 2-1 in 2001

 

[stazi]

Whoa, I wish I saw this game. Will have to download the turkey match: it sounds amazing

 

[Peartie]

so much passion from turkey in the second half .. brilliant! but Volkan, what a moron NOTHING is worth doing something stupid in the last minutes of a match like that..

i wasnt able to see the game - what happened?

 

[stazi]

apparently the turkish goalie got sent off. not sure for what.

 

[withoutaface]

Czechs were up 2-1 until about 5 minutes from time, then Turkey scored twice in a couple of minutes to take the game.

 

[Peartie]

i meant what did the goalie do to get sent

i heard about the 2 late goals within 3 mins to put turkey through...

 

[rwc]

i thyink one of the czech players said something to him and so he pushed the czech player (who fell to the ground), this was inside the penalty box the ref gave a red card which i thought was a bit harsh but yeah

 

[stazi]

shouldn't that have given the czechs a penalty

 

[Peartie]

not necassarily...depends what was happening at the time - pushing an opponent is yellow or red depending on the ref and what actually happened

you can get a card for things that happen off the ball - for example say the ball is out for a goal kick the guy says something the keeper pushes him and gets sent off then it is still a goal kick....

 

[rwc]

i thought it was a clear yellow .. not a red though bit harsh


having said that i can think of a few refs who wouldve given the red anda penalty

it was just stupid of him to do provoked or unprovoked

 

[LMF^^]

shouldn't that have given the czechs a penalty

Ball was already dead, as a goal kick was already given by the ref. Turkish keeper pushed Jan Koller in the chest and he took a dive and that's the red. It's a correct call. This isn't rugby league after all.

 

[chicky_pie]

Italy were lucky?
What are you smoking?
Reffing was horrendous.

Romania played better than Italy, and Romania is way underrated, one day if they played against Australia, it will be hard for them to beat Romania IMO.

 

[blakegman]

France were completely dominating international football since 1998 until a while after the Euro 2000 tournament, you can't say that wasn't deserved!

I was under the impression that in Euro 2000 they scraped through just about all the knockout matches on penalty shootouts. Not by playing particularly good.

Feel bad for Cech, one of the nice guys in world football and it must be shattering to make a mistake like that in a big game. I've played goalie and the feeling sucks, can only imagine what it feels like in an international.

 

[u-borat]

Peter Cech. LOL.

 

[barbecuedflava]

Peter Cech. LOL.

what a awesome game tho. turkey just kept pressing and pressing...

:rofl: peter cech.

nah, it was kinda slack he had quite a solid performance up until then. still..:rofl:

 

[blakegman]

Petr Cech. He's Czech lol.

Seems to be a bit outof sorts with routine takes in last few months. PRobably can't claim to be world best keeper anymore, even though everyone knows Casillas probably is.

 

[Peartie]

sounds like Kalac at the world cup

also:

lolz at the German and Austrian coaches being sent from the field

 

[blakegman]

Ouch Germany drew Portugal.