OT: Euro 2016 Round of 16 (12:00pm, 3:00pm, ESPN2) - ITA v. ESP; ENG v. ISL

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Heavyweight match-up going on now:  Italy versus Spain, to be followed by England-Iceland.

Going to regret this, but I predicted Spain 2 - 0 Italy, and then England 3 - 1 Iceland.

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SalvatoreQuattro

June 27th, 2016 at 6:48 PM ^

Only one kind of person foolishly demeans league titles and that is an idiot who fails to understands that OSU and MSU fans say the same exact thing about UM's national titles. This person also is demanding Lombbardi, Halas, and Paul Brown because all of them won NFL titles. Your position is the most ill-thought this blog has ever seen. It's quite easy to see why you have been sent to Bolivia.



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Doc Brown

June 27th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^

What have the Lions done? Don't bring up the NFL championship. Nobody cares about the NFL championship. Same prestige as the AFC, USFL, and the arena championship.

At least England has won a world cup. The Jets have won a Superbowl. Hench, England are the Jets of soccer. The US are the browns. I would say France is the closest to the Lions. As getting close to competing but fucking it up at the last second.

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wahooverine

June 27th, 2016 at 8:15 PM ^

US is the Browns? No bad comparison. Browns are the worst and most dysfunctional franchise in the NFL. There are many far worse countries at soccer than the US. We at least qualify for the World Cup with regularity. The US actually placed 3rd in the first World Cup in 1930. We've qualified for every World Cup since 1990 which was an amateur team of college players. It was only following that that the US actually started building a national program and investing in players. We made a quarter final in 2002. I'd say the US is more of a newer expansion franchise like the Texans. It has resources and a nice stadium but is still figuring out how to build a winner on the field; it's had a few moments of middling success and few great players (mainly keepers) but ultimately not enough to break out of the second (or maybe third) tier.

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Yeoman

June 27th, 2016 at 3:26 PM ^

I understand why it's so hard for England to develop technically gifted outfield players--we discussed it in yesterday's thread.

But why can't they ever find a competent goalkeeper?

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M-Dog

June 28th, 2016 at 8:16 AM ^

Damn, I hop on to a work call for 15 minutes, and 3 freaking goals are scored!

Could have used one of those last night in the Copa Final.

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jmblue

June 27th, 2016 at 3:51 PM ^

I like this announcing crew overall, but they shouldn't be calling this game.  It seems like it's difficult for them to put their national pride aside.  This is a pretty amazing underdog performance thus far, and they sound like they're at a funeral.

 

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jmblue

June 27th, 2016 at 4:01 PM ^

The Euro has been around since 1960.  It used to be a lot smaller, though, so it was hard to qualify for it.  At first it had four teams, then eight, then 16, and now 24.  

That said, England's historically been pretty crappy in knockout games.

 

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Yeoman

June 27th, 2016 at 4:06 PM ^

I went back to correct the post but you'd already locked it.

England's never won a knockout round game when they weren't the host. They won a scoreless draw on penalties in a quarterfinal the year the tournament was in England ('96).

It's still an impressive showing for a country that size. This is the 15th tournament.

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