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Euro 2016 |OT| Take a bow sson
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GoldenCrow
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Well neither did Silva to be fair (have a good season) due to his ankle problems but the Spanish team are much better with them both on the field due to the movement they create of the ball. Always push and pull defenders and midfielders making room for other players especially Morata and Nolito. Since they came off there has been close to no movement going forward.
Ape Gone Insane
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brace yourself, 3 days of even more morata transfer rumours incoming
perfectchaos007
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Euro Soccer fans need to get it together. As someone who has been watching the Copa America, and seeing well behaved non-violent fans in all matches in that tournament, it's crazy to hear what has been going on almost on a daily basis in Euro Cup. Why is this happening?
Mattlikewhoa
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...European Ultras are shit disturbers...
perfectchaos007
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They need security cameras to catch these people and ban them from stadiums for life if possible. They put lives of others in danger
GoldenCrow
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It is all organised. It isn't just a bunch of people just randomly having a fight because they are pissed up. You have the new ultras of Eastern Europe and the old English firms that went underground towards the end of the 80's but have latched onto the international game instead. Russian ultras and English firms have been meeting up for years as the Russians (as well as the Polish) filled a niche that didn't exist in England. There was a fare in a small London park a few years back that got stormed by a bunch of Polish Ultras, they were there to meet up with the Millwall firm and bunch of people that were out for a nice day got targeted instead.
In Russia and few other countries officials have a strange perception that hooliganism is still a norm. You just have to look at the problems CSK Moscow have had in the CL and what the governments in those countries let the Ultras get away with.
We're just so passionate we turn into cunts. Americans wouldn't understand.
Yeah... about that...
uncredited male
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We usually fight our own supporters on this side of the pond. It is more efficient and we don't have to travel.
Stereogatari
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Turkey will sneak through like how we qualified in the first place. A miracle based on other results.
Couldn't disagree more.
there's been a few duds but I've really enjoyed it so far. Lots of lates goals and shock results.
apparently so.
Omega Kirby
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So Turkey are out?
If they beat Czech Republic in their final game they can be one of the teams that go through in third but they'd likely need a victory by a big margin.
I'm sure theres some weird combination of events that could happen that would just need a win from Turkey regardless of goals.
Best bet is we win the last game and let the stat guys figure it out haha
I don't know about that, Turkey have their work cut out for them.
As of June 17th this is how 3rd placed advancement to the knockout round stands:
The four best third-placed teams are determined according to the following criteria:
Higher number of points obtained
Superior goal difference
Higher number of goals scored
Fair play conduct
Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system
Those 1 pointers are what I mean tho.
We verse Czech Republic next. If we beat them, we leap frog them.
If a bunch of 3rd placed and 4th placed teams draw with who their vsing, we might just sneak in with just our points.
Assuming we beat Czech Republic heh
A thorough account of why some Croatian fans caused trouble last night
Lack of ID check is disturbing
Lack of ID check is disturbing
Taking the time to check the ID of 40 000+ people entering a stadium at more or less the same time would probably be as dangerous. And what do you do about tickets that were given/sold by random people ? It's not realistic to want a systematic ID check.
You won't stop a terrorist attack with stadium security, no matter how well prepared they are.
If you bought four tickets from uefa, the buyers name would be on all four tickets. Id control can't work. Impossible to require id control when tickets are given out through lotteries many months before the tournament.
So change how tickets are distributed. UEFA/France should've been on top of the issue given recent events.
PdotMichael
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I'm surprised how bad France handle the situation. One would think that France would know it better after 1998.
Mattlikewhoa
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This! True fans wouldn't mind the extra steps involved when purchasing tickets. As for security checks... Have people arrive earlier so that you can be more thorough.
yeah, do it like ComicCon. Everyone who wants to be eligible for a ticket needs to pre-register.
wakajawaka
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I cross a border regularly and they have machines that check your Id/passport and make a photo in 20 seconds.
What happens in the stadiums is the responsibility of the UEFA. They took control 3 weeks ago.
Glad to see that the topic is almost exclusively related to security issues, it's good to here so many experts on gaf
that don't even know who's in charge of what
PdotMichael
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If you wanna play that card, you should maybe know it better first.
This is rumoured to be the Belgium line-up for this afternoon: Courtois, Meunier, Vermaelen, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Witsel, Dembélé, De Bruyne, Hazard, Carrasco and Lukaku. Fellaini, Nainggolan and Ciman benched. A lot of people wanted to see Dembélé in the team, so I hope that's the actual line-up. Hoping De Bruyne plays a good match, he was terrible against Italy.
All Belgians were terrible against Italy...like they had a collective off-day.
Witsel is still incontournable?
If I remember correctly Courtois played pretty okay and had some important saves.
But yeah, the rest of them were shite.
There's too many good players in that team for it to be anything other than coaching.
I'm not convinced they will win today, EIRE will be snapping at them like dogs with beetroot. No chance to settle.
I think EIRE might sneak it . . .
franbatista123
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Portugal v Austria should be one of the best matches so far, in theory anyway.
AndyMoogle
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Nah, one team will score in the 90th minute.
That is a Belgian team for which I can actually root although it could do without Hazard. Main important thing is De Bruyne on the 10 instead on left.
Sure they could change it, but it's too late now. I have second hand tickets for the semi, so they better not change the system now! There are apparantly three levels of security checks, but you can't find all flares without doing strip searches. It's impossible
Phantast2k
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Löw was clearly stoned at today's press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFv3mb54w0Q (German)
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