villa4europe Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 thing is the italians seem to know how to line up and how to play to protect that midfield, they dont go in to tournaments thinking they can henderson and a 34 gerrard as a midfield 2 because they'd looked good all season as part as a midfield 3... its about the best possible midfield unit rather than the best 3 midfield players, id bank on them finding it long before roy does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 theyve banned alcohol in lens for england vs wales disgrace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 32 minutes ago, villa4europe said: theyve banned alcohol in lens for england vs wales disgrace or potential sensible decision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 47 minutes ago, villa4europe said: thing is the italians seem to know how to line up and how to play to protect that midfield, they dont go in to tournaments thinking they can henderson and a 34 gerrard as a midfield 2 because they'd looked good all season as part as a midfield 3... its about the best possible midfield unit rather than the best 3 midfield players, id bank on them finding it long before roy does Worked well for them in the World cup didn't it..... I think some like England (and indeed most British sides as Italy have good records against all of them) play Italy on their history and tradition rather than what they've actually go on the pitch. I personally don't see what Ireland have to worry about, Belgium will be a much harder opponent to contain. Italy are strongest at the back with the Juve unit...but again Bayern Munich just ran at pace against them and scored 6 goals over the two legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 25 minutes ago, Zatman said: or potential sensible decision? nope will mean that fans will now spread across to smaller towns and villages where they can drink rather than going in to lens, if anything its going to make it near uncontrollable and if they are going to ban booze why have they picked us? why are we considered to be worse fans than anyone else? what evidence do they have from across european football last season to back that up? belgian fans caused more trouble in europe than we did last year 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 7 minutes ago, villa4europe said: nope will mean that fans will now spread across to smaller towns and villages where they can drink rather than going in to lens, if anything its going to make it near uncontrollable and if they are going to ban booze why have they picked us? why are we considered to be worse fans than anyone else? what evidence do they have from across european football last season to back that up? We can probably thank the Liverpool supporters at the Europa League final for this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 not just Liverpool fans but the scenes at HIbs/Rangers will scare a lot of places from British fans with drink inside them (yes I know its not all of them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 England-Wales will kick off majorly I'm afraid, it's not like 6 nations. Already I've seen reports that fans will be sitting next to each other in the stadium due to ticket f*** ups in the allocations. That and hosting it in Northern France isn't the cleverest as will encourage many fans to travel over without tickets given it's only an hour and a bit from London. Thinking banning Alcohol is a sensible decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 I hoped that the home nations fans would all stick together and be like a combined set of GB fans, seems like its going to go the other way though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 8 minutes ago, Genie said: I hoped that the home nations fans would all stick together and be like a combined set of GB fans, seems like its going to go the other way though. that was never ever going to happen though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 they arent segregating fans in the stadiums, due to the way they've done the draw its near impossible, ive got tickets from the 1st draw (before the teams were allocated) for england v slovakia for example, im not sat in the england "end" id imagine there'd be over 100k fans descending on lens for the wales game, ive got 2 issues with it, like ive already said its that theyve picked us, poland vs germany will also probably kick off, the second is that IMO "no booze" is a lazy and ineffectual way of trying to police games, people will still get drunk, in my experience you end up on mixers in coke bottles and actually get drunker, people will go where there is beer which will lead them to places where there isnt as much police was tempted to take my england AVFC flag to the northern ireland game, not sure if its a good idea, expecting the typical home nation thing, im happily going to cheer them on but expecting them to be anti england Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 25, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 25, 2016 12 hours ago, Zatman said: no Pirlo Did people actually expect him to feature?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: Did people actually expect him to feature?! I thought he would have made the squad at least though he has been quite poor in MLS, im sure Conte actually asked him out of international retirement after World Cuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 25, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 25, 2016 Just now, Zatman said: I thought he would have made the squad at least though he has been quite poor in MLS, im sure Conte actually asked him out of international retirement after World Cuo By all accounts he's been pretty much a joke in the MLS. he was never EVER going to make this squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Re booze I've heard no alcohol will be sold for any game that lens hosts, so it's not just England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 1 hour ago, Zatman said: that was never ever going to happen though I think it is an opportunity missed by the various home nation FA's. Some work could have been done to unite the fans, rather than watch them fight each other at every opportunity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 1 hour ago, Jimzk5 said: Re booze I've heard no alcohol will be sold for any game that lens hosts, so it's not just England yep thats how the BBC are reporting it, wasnt how it was reported when i saw it earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Anyone know any websites where it lists the players for each team and current appearances/form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 still cannot believe they have agreed a 2pm kickoff for wales vs england. a-holes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisagg75 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: still cannot believe they have agreed a 2pm kickoff for wales vs england. a-holes no way.i made sure for the first two weeks of the tournament i finish no later then 4 so i don't miss an england game as they'd be the last match that day. Edited May 31, 2016 by krisagg75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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