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Im guessing this is on sky, and i dont have it so where are people watching this? Its a bit of a crap time i know as most people will still be at work, but im off so if anyones watching in town let me know where

Dave Blackcurrant is watching it....in Russia.Everyone keep their eyes peeled for a bloke in a yellow ski jacket :D

what times it on?

4pm kick off :evil:

Well that's very fucking handy!

Well if you broke an pretty important bone in your body (Leg, for example) you'd be off work and able to watch it, wouldn't you? :D

I'll be in the pub for 3.00pm :D

It is on Sky1, coverage starts at 3.30, kick off 4.00, cracking time for a kick-off, second shift at the pub. :beers:

ive no work till Saturday :king:

will be watching it in victoria before going on to brxton for the enemy  8)

Bastard (in the nicest possible way)

The only joy of working nights is when you get games that kick off in the afternoon.  :)

watch the first half somewhere in town as i will be on my lunch break at 4.

I have heard my company is shutting at 3.45!

And if you were a bit spazzy like me

i see there has been some trouble over in moscow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7048674.stm

come on england.

He said many were giving the impression they had gone to Moscow "simply in order to drink and amuse themselves in clubs"



FUCKING ACE

 :mrgreen:

It'll be interesting once the racist chanting begins!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3047420.stm  :|

Am i mad putting £20 on England to win?

is it wrong that i found this funny?

"I've had bananas thrown at me on the pitch" he said. "People shouting at me: 'Oi, black guy, what are you doing in here?' And there have been fights, too."

quite a polite way to racially abuse someone!

I think it's disgusting.

Throwing bananas away when there's people starving in Africa...............

I am not racist but I like the 'britons never shall be slaves song' a bit strange when 5 players that are representing England are ethnic. A bit like us shouting we hate poles when we have three of them in our team

You will beat Russia, the only reason they do well is that it is very difficult for other teams to get used to the bloody cold weather

Pub :run:

GGGGGOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLL !!!

Rooney...1-0.

Belter of a volley that!

What a strike....take a bow son.

Fucking ace goal, fair play to Owen

Reminded me of Owen's second goal against them at Wembley, with Heskey winning the header.

Oh and Rooney was offside.  :mrgreen:

Fuck the Ruskie Cunts.

Russia starting to dominate, bu like Swindon of old, they don't have a striker who can score

YESS

Penalty to Russia

soapy tit wank thats a freekick by a mile

1-1  Game on

Ball bags.

I didn't see Rooney's goal, but apparently the commentators said there was a hint of offside.

Russia should have had a freekick, not a pen.  I guess it evens itself out

YESSSSSSSS


2-1 RUSSIA

Ball bags x 2.

A Pole supporting Russia?  Is that common?

stefpol just a quick question. i take it you are polish? so why are you cheering a country that occupied yours and brought misery and poverty to millions?

Hehehe

Dislike England simply because of their fans and previous experiences when watching Poland get mullered at Wembley.

I like England in the cricket, and can just about stand them in rugby

I dont particularly like Russia, but in a heads up game against England, i prefer Russia

What the fuck is that all about?

You like to see england's football team lose but don't mind their cricket or rugby team?  Anything to do with the fact Poland don't play either sport (at a decent standard).

I have a friend who supports Scotland in the rugby but england in the football. Again what the fuck is that all about?

Well its all about the fans.

In rugby and cricket the English fans are decent and normal, and you can have a laugh with them.

But in the football, England fans (well a proportion anyway) like to spit at their oposing fans, and boo any oposing national anthem - whether it be Germany or San Marino

english rugby fans are a royal pain in the arse, cricket fans on the whole now are just the footie fans on the piss, but appear to be happy drunks

There's only one thing worse than england fans...

....and that's the english media.  I hate those bastards.

True.  I fucking love the fact that Erikson is doing well at Man Ciity.  Maybe it was the plaers who were just crap, not the manager

Also, if England lose, the media will blame it on the pitch, or the ref for awarding a pen

I support England in the Rugby and Russia in the Cricket.

I don't like football really.

Gerrard should've killed the game off soon after half time, now we've got to be Israeli fans next month.

and then beat Croatia...

...which is achievable.

Could be worse you could have to beat the world champions at home for any chance of qualifying!

Well thats the end of Euro 2008  :cry: Cant see us beating Croatia.

Who won Euro 2008?

Brazil you smart ass

italy.

that arse shaving bloke russia had was quality.

NEVER EVER EVER a penalty

But we were crap so I can't really feel hard done by  :|

At the end of the day, they're a bunch of over paid Cunts who have no pride in playing for England....fuck the lot of them.

Anyone up for going out and battering some commies?

Absolutely gutted....  I never thought I'd see myself cheering on the Jews...  Roll on November 17th, I'll be shitting myself til then.

No it's not.

You have 3 people, born in Poland in your team.

We don't have any slaves in ours.

'I am not a racist'. Yeah, right...................................

Stefpol, you say we boo other teams national anthems, what a load of bollocks.

Did you watch the game this afternoon? Hear the Russians did you when they played our anthem?

Stefpol

Please dont take this the wrong way but I think you are a bit of a fucking cock

Yeah i always tend to make sure i save up some Greenies whenever ive got a ticket to an England game, there's nothing quite like the site of a Greenie running down the opposition's fans face.

Of course we're the only nation to boo the opposing nations national anthem, you Sir are a deluded Cunt.

that's putting it politely.

Typical English response.

Most national team supporters boo England's national anthem, as England do it to them in the first place.

Ive been to many a Poland game, and the only two times ive ever heard Poland fans boo oposing national anthems is both Germany and England.  They boo the German anthem because of the war.  They boo the English anthem as the English fans always boo ours.

Im pretty sure if you watch Russia play most other national teams in their current euro 2008 group, you would not hear them boo the oposing teams anthem.

Last month i went to Lisbon and watched Poland vs Portugal.  We clapped their national anthem, they clapped ours.

In the last world cup campaign, i went to Northern Ireland and Wales away games.  We clapped their national anthem away, they clapped ours.  When i went to the home Poland games, the same again happened

As i say, England fans will boo any oposing teams national anthem (even small teams like Andorra or San Marino).  However in most cases, there is no history or real reason why England should do this.  Fair enough i can understand why England may boo the German anthem.  But booing every flippen nation - well its sad.

If you've ever been to Wembley, you will always here the man on the tannoys say  'please respect the oposing teams national anthem', and even Gary Lineaker on match of the day has pointed how sad and pathetic it is that the English fans boo oposing teams national anthems.

Most of the people on this forum are just English born and bread, and do not understand culture outside England.  

When people like Dachauer make comments about England and English media + people, i dont think he is meaning to piss you off.  Hes just telling the truth, and i can relate to many of his comments.

Why is it that people who aren't English, but live in England, constantly slag us off?

If you don't like us, fuck off.

Maybe because of comments like that!

I don't slag any english people off.  I may slag off england supporters, or the english media, but I don't bring it to a personal level, as there's no need.

I wasn't referring to you Jan.

It just annoys me that every other Nation in the world can be as nationalistic as they want.

But if we do it, we're racist.

I know what you mean, I love to hate the english national teams, but only cos it's sport, just a game, if it was anything more important I'd have a different attitude.

The english need to get the pride back, it's almost unfashionable to show national pride, although those that go around with cheap looking flags hanging out of their window need putting down.

So coloured people are native to England then?

You also have one of the worst keeper in football, even worse than Lehmann

stef - pretty much every single one of your posts is criticising the england football/rugby/cricket/tiddlywinks team, so why so surprised when you get a bit of stick for it?

same applies to the man named after a concentration camp.

No mate.

But they're not slaves either.

And at least all our team (Apart from Hargreaves) was born in England.


Cue the Owen argument :wink:

Poland have Boruc, who is worse then both Germany and England's keeper.

You shouod see the two howlers he let in for Celtic against Hibs.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

but they may have decended from them

Fucking hell!

Your descendants might have been! That wasn't what you were saying though was it?

I like their cricket team  :D

My family are from Dachau, it is more than a fucking concentration camp

English born and bred and know little about other cultures?

Who is racist now?


If you hate us so much, why fucking live here?

it has a number flaws, as do many countries (cue the yes, Germany is full of Germans comment :wink: )
The standard of living is good if your not a peasant, but there are too many illegals who spong like fuck. P.S I am not one of them

ffs we are losing against bloody czech republic :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

oddly enough i don't see many people calling themselves Auschwitzer.

are you english at all?

'Sponge'. You wouldn't pass the literacy test mate :D

unfortunately, yes

that's a shame. you're an irritating little pissant.

During the D-day celebrations you must have been torn up inside!!  You half nazi bastard!!

 :wink:


(I am only joking my half fritz friend)

that must be the english in me :wink:

ha ha!!

Okay then...  :-))(

My Mums Maiden name is Macourt.

thats got to give me some kind of interest come 2008

Paul robinson in parrying ball out to opposition striker shocker.


He's fucking shite.

Czech Republic rocks (it's now 3-0!).  And yeah, I'm half-Czech.   :P

I was in Germany when you guys won in Prague, shame I'm not in Czecho tonight!

All the Turkish were out on the streets of Cologne clebrating beating the Greeks that night...another one that's turned around tonight.

Norn Iron's goal in Sweden was bloody good.

3-0 nil down at home at the moment, probably the Polish/Germans letting you down!!!! :roll:

Correct, and I could miss that chance for a fraction less than Gerrard is on.

Got to say Gerrard was crap on the plastic, and that missed summed it up.

If we don't qualify McLaren had to go. Simple as that.

What annoys me is that it's now unfashionable to be racist.  If you live in England and don't support the football team and drink tea then fuck off....





Okay, I'm jesting but it does piss me off how people slag off this country yet choose to live here.  I consider myself pretty well travelled, and there's no better place to live, and there's no better national football team.  We are without doubt, with the Spaniards, the biggest underachievers in international football.  We didn't deserve to lose to the Russians, I'm pretty gutted to be honest, but keep the faith.  *Cliche time* it's not over til it's over.

xxxx

I was at wembley on saturday and not one fucker in the crowd booed the national anthems.

They were all at the bar though axs. I saw all the empty seats  :wink:

Mclaren out!!!!!  :twisted:

Blackcurrants got a long trek home.

If we fail to qualify he will be.

the bar was fucking shut, and i quote 'Because it's an afternoon match'.

Last time I went there it was an evening match and the bar was open. and that was against the germans. how the fuck does that make any sense?

They only serve Carlsberg anyway...meh

Please note the following is not a critism of England, the English (thats a first  :wink: )etc just my view:
I was a bit surprise that Steve Maclaren was given the job, give as he was the puppet for shouting the tactics when Sven was in charge.
The only problem you had when Sven was in charge was that you would go one goal up and then play negatively (except against us) if he would have powered on you would have beaten Portugal in the last world cup and perhaps even Brazil the one before. At the last world cup you had the best chance for many years to win it, but the tactics again gain a lead play negatively.

I don't think you are a bad team, you just need a manager who is prepared to go for the kill when leading.

Wow, that fascinating insight really highlighted some points that I don't think any of us had considered.

If England fail to qualify for euro 2008, then who would you guys want as the next England manager?

Some people + tabloids have suggested Jose Mourinho as a possible replacement.  This surprises me a little, considering only a few months ago most fans and newspapers wanted an Englishman to manage England.  This was because no foreign manager would have the same passion and enthuiasm when managing a team as an Englishman would.

I think Englands biggest problems are

(1) Whilst managing England is an attractive proposition, media and fan pressures + expectations are way to high.  As a resukt, top international managers like Hiddink and Scolari would prefer to manage other decent international football teams where the media and fan pressure is not as great

(2) England rarely play friendly games away from home against decent teams.  England always play friendly games at home, and lack major experience of going to hostile grounds (ie Russia, Croatia, Germany - even Poland) and playing in these different atmospheres.

Wow who'd have thought not having the net i'd miss so much

look at the seedings it is in germanys interests to finish second,

Anyone else think that Gerrard needs to be dropped? I think he has been utter muck the last few games, his touch seems to have dissapeared and that chance he missed which would hav settled the game you would expect him to finish 9 times out of 10.

Agree to a cerain extent about gerrard but who would you replace him with certainly not lampard.

Buck stops with the manager

On last nights performance my Gran!! She would have at least got that effort on target.

With me being a bit thick, red, what do you mean?

mourinho for england, please

Just got back from Moscow.

One word of advice dont go there, its a horrible place.

i was really planning on a visit their next year (not being sarcastic)
What put you off?

Russians are effin miserable, effin rude and not very friendly/nice people.

Well that's the way I saw them on the whole when I saw loads of them on holiday in Hurghada Egypt.  Disgusting the way they treated the locals.

Didn't really make me want to visit their country.  However I assume the russians I saw/met were quite well off, so the majority probably thought a lot of themselves.

Fucking dump. Just got back now. Glad i did it though, it was one hell of an experience!!

Its just a really depressing place, just had lots of grief off the locals wanting trouble but they only pick on groups of 3 and 4. Then when you leave your hotel to go to the match and see army tanks parked up outside you know your in for a good night.

Yeah Dave is back safely :D

Did Lenin pong :wink:

I experienced Russians in Portgual in 2004, they got a battering as he picked on the biggest english lad, the english battered him and threw him in the marina

I forgot to wake up in time to see him. it closes at 1pm every day....

Luckily i didn't get battered by anyone, but i did take a lighter to the head from some bastard, and had a little bit of blood to show for it.

Russia really is a different world. Mental.

Its sad to say, but having worked in the same offices as several in the last few years and seen a fair few on holiday in Egypt I have yet to find an exception to this rule.

 I met a Russian bird called  Natalia in the summer....fit as fuck, but definitely a bit mental....she was with a black dude who I suspect was dealing, he says to me I've got to go off and do some business, will you look after her for me...btw she likes dancing.....says I....I'll see what I can do  8).....fuck me she was hot.   Its at times like this I wish I was 20 years younger.

He didn't smell but he looked like a wooden puppet  :shock:

He fitted in with all the other Russians though as he looked as miserable as fuck but then at least he has an excuse being dead and all that  :D