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The Final: Portugal vs France - (10/7/16) KO 8pm, BBC1/HD & ITV1/HD |
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Ends with Bowie, nice touch
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I'm fully in favour of the expanded format. It's not the small teams' fault that the likes of Spain, Germany, England and possibly even France have been misfiring.
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Bias voting for goal of the tournament. Why don't people just vote honestly ?
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Internationally the havent in recent times.
Champions league Ronaldo wasn't hugely significant in the bigger games That will continue Ronaldo may not dominate games anymore, but he still scores a lot of goals, even against top teams. And Messi still plays a huge role in how Barcelona plays. They are still at the very top in the sport, alongside Iniesta, Suarez and Neymar. |
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Whats the chances of Messi coming out of retirement and playing the in the 2018 WC?
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Aw....Bowie.
Well, there we go! Quite a negative summing up from Shearer et al but I'll remember the tournament fondly as a Welshman! |
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ITV still on.
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Are France still in shock
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I'd bump it up to 32 teams to make the group stage and knockout advancement a bit less scattergun.
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Whats the chances of Messi coming out of retirement and playing the in the 2018 WC?
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I bet the people in Switzerland voted for Shaqiri as goal of the tournament
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I'd bump it up to 32 teams to make the group stage and knockout advancement a bit less scattergun.
It's also worth remembering that the next European Championship will fall under that bizarre arrangement where the matches will played in a dozen cities across Europe, which would hardly seem conducive to making a more stable tournament. |
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Then even more poor teams would get into the competition. There would almost be no point having qualifiers.
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I'm fully in favour of the expanded format. It's not the small teams' fault that the likes of Spain, Germany, England and possibly even France have been misfiring.
Setting your team up to defend has become easier in recent times because there aren't enough top players around to open them up like there used to be. |
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lol was he squashing a moth ??
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Whats the chances of Messi coming out of retirement and playing the in the 2018 WC?
So i would say there is a big chance of him coming out of retirement |
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Then even more poor teams would get into the competition. There would almost be no point having qualifiers.
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Maybe its just a case of lots of very good defenders. Quite a lot of centre backs have credible arguments for being in the final team of the tournament.
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I Am Crying
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS. THEY DID IT. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. IT HASNT HIT ME YET
![]() ![]() . I am shaking |
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Sickened by this result, more evidence that good things happen to bad people. More tournaments like this will kill International football.
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Well Argentina will be favourites for the World Cup
So i would say there is a big chance of him coming out of retirement |
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Who were the poor teams that qualified?
Ukraine Romania England |
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Being "sickened" sounds a little bit like melodramatic hyperbole to me.
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Ian Wright clearly hasn't heard of the UEFA Nations League.
I don't buy at all the argument being put forward by the panel that an expanded tournament justifies itself solely because it gives the smaller nations a taste of tournament football. Their incentive should be to improve to the point that they can qualify for tournaments in their existing sizes, not to get there by being given the equivalent of a consolation prize. I hope they realise when they get to the upcoming World Cup qualifiers that there are only half the berths of Euro 2016 open to them. |
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