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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #325 on: June 16, 2024, 06:37:44 pm »
Serious subject, I know, but unfortunately even BBC News lapsed into the headline 'police in Hamburg shoot man with axe...'   :roll:   ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #327 on: June 17, 2024, 09:20:37 am »
Romania/Ukraine is not on Fox  :nts: 

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #328 on: June 17, 2024, 10:18:06 am »
Just following the running text commentary, Romania is killin' it.  They've pretty much been in the wilderness since they made the quarters in the '94 WC so good for them.

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #329 on: June 17, 2024, 05:58:38 pm »
Watching the Belgium v Slovakia game, I couldn't help but think that 'Ketsch Woodles' would be a great name for an indie band... ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #330 on: June 18, 2024, 12:27:21 pm »
Mbappe breaks nose - now a doubt for the Netherlands game. Will wear a mask for the rest of the competition (surgery to be delayed until after the tournament).

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #331 on: June 18, 2024, 12:32:11 pm »
Good to see that Euro '24 is continuing in the long, time-honored tradition of international soccer tournaments - whatever the languages, of the participating teams, when strong expletives are required then all lapse into English... :D   ;)

(Albanian - Albanian - F*****  'ell, ref! - Albanian - Albanian...)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #332 on: June 18, 2024, 12:38:06 pm »
So - the Global Powerhouse get off to a less than inspiring start, owing to the usual Southgate Doctrine; that the points are what matters. The result, as always, is that having taken the lead the GP then drop-back, which allowed a very ordinary Serbian side back into the game. If we're being charitable, we can describe it as a 'solid' start - but will have to do much better against quality opposition.

Next game wouldn't sound out of place at Madison Square Garden - 'Global Powerhouse v Danish Dynamite'... ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #333 on: June 18, 2024, 02:20:58 pm »
Turkey/Georgia also not on FOX (which is a pity, apparently it was a great game).  Rupert probably got confused...

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #334 on: June 19, 2024, 01:05:32 pm »
Early days, but I'm wondering if we need to set up a separate 'Euro's Live' thread - the lack of in-game posting seems to be stifling discussion, in comparison to the WC, where we had a live(ly) thread? Or is there just not as much interest, in the Euro's (no Team USA, for an obvious example)?

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #335 on: June 19, 2024, 01:10:26 pm »
Strange technical issue, at the Euro's - UEFA have banned the host broadcasters from providing 4K UHD coverage - 1080 only (albeit with HDR facility on streamed channels). Seems to be a retrograde step - German and Austrian TV were more than willing to provide 4K coverage. Any channel claiming 4K will actually be showing upscaled 1080.

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #336 on: June 19, 2024, 01:17:44 pm »
Just to get us in the mood for today's game - here's the Scotland WC '74 squad channelling their inner Fred Flintstone... ;)


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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #337 on: June 20, 2024, 11:37:58 am »
Early days, but I'm wondering if we need to set up a separate 'Euro's Live' thread - the lack of in-game posting seems to be stifling discussion, in comparison to the WC, where we had a live(ly) thread? Or is there just not as much interest, in the Euro's (no Team USA, for an obvious example)?

I'd say, a definite maybe. I plan to watch England-Denmark in about 30 minutes., and Netherlands-France tomorrow. England for language, culture, history; NL because my wife is Dutch. ESPN seems to carry the games, but seems, also, to be doing its best to hide them inside a blizzard of other sports. Nothing like the way Peacock/NBC carries the Premier League season.

Just checked: game is on FOX. We dropped our cable TV, since we can stream anything we want...such as MLB.TV for Nats games. (We live in NYC, so only Nats-Mets and Nats-Yankee games are blocked)

And Southgate has crippled his team by leaving off The President, James Maddison, who would have been his creative mid-fielder.
Here, there is also the problem that the Nats have a game at 1pm ET, in an hour-and-a-half.

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #338 on: June 20, 2024, 12:26:10 pm »
Ah - The Euro's; where fans of many European nations gather together in a spirit of fair-play and respect. So that'll be why, during the Croatia v Albania game, both sets of fans came together, in unison (and knowing that the game was being carried live, in Serbia) to chant together, in Serbian, 'Kill The Serb...'    ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #339 on: June 20, 2024, 12:52:31 pm »
I appreciate our 'not within 24 hrs' rule, but it would be unfair, on those new to the game, not to point out that Slovenia v Serbia might best be described as 'one for the die-hards'... ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #340 on: June 20, 2024, 01:54:31 pm »
Canute rolls with the waves  :P

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #341 on: June 20, 2024, 02:38:05 pm »
I appreciate our 'not within 24 hrs' rule, but it would be unfair, on those new to the game, not to point out that Slovenia v Serbia might best be described as 'one for the die-hards'... ;)
Slovenians want a draw settled by a time trial.

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #342 on: June 20, 2024, 02:44:59 pm »
I have literally seen grown-ass men fight over whose Balkan country had better salty cheese
Ah - The Euro's; where fans of many European nations gather together in a spirit of fair-play and respect. So that'll be why, during the Croatia v Albania game, both sets of fans came together, in unison (and knowing that the game was being carried live, in Serbia) to chant together, in Serbian, 'Kill The Serb...'    ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #343 on: June 20, 2024, 06:40:25 pm »
{spoiler]The Global Powerhouse, yet again, succumb to the Southgate Doctrine, and allow Denmark back into a game that the GP should have pressed on and put to bed. Our worst performance, at a major tournament, since the Iceland debacle, at Euro '16 - incidentally, that was the last game, at a Euro's, that the GP conceded a goal. And what a sloppy goal  - the ball given away, from our own throw-in, and then no-one bothering to close down Hjulmand, whose shot scored the equalizer. The GP just looked passive and lethargic, ceding midfield control to the Danes. They also persisted with the short pass game, when it was clear that wasn't going to work on such a wet field. Denmark will rightly feel more aggreived by a draw - they looked the more likely winners. The tournament draw has the GP meeting France, in the semis - we can forget that, after a performance like this. Southgate looks like a manager who knows his time is drawing to a close - fan sentiment is ebbing away[/spoiler]

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #344 on: June 21, 2024, 09:33:07 am »
That was a hell of a shot by Hjulmand tho.

Pretty good 4th game yesterday too  :D  Perhaps Argentina would like to try their hand at ice hockey.


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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #345 on: June 21, 2024, 09:42:53 am »

 Perhaps Argentina would like to try their hand at ice hockey.

Argentina will try their hand at anything... :lol:   ;)

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #346 on: June 21, 2024, 09:50:07 am »
Ha  :P

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #347 on: June 21, 2024, 06:40:38 pm »
The one lighter note, from the England game, was that 'Ketsch Woodles' were again in attendance... :D

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #348 on: June 22, 2024, 09:51:21 am »
Xavi Simon scored a goal. The VAR decision was wrong. Netherlands should have beaten France.

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Re: Soccer 2023-24 (A/K/A Futbol)
« Reply #349 on: June 22, 2024, 06:30:51 pm »
Xavi Simon scored a goal. The VAR decision was wrong. Netherlands should have beaten France.

The decision was morally wrong, but legally correct - Dumfries was interfering with play, so was offside. The most famous take on this was from the late, great Brian Clough - 'if you're not interfering with play, then what are you doing out on the park...'

Another dire playing surface - the Dutch six-yard box looked like a ploughed field, within 10 minutes of kick-off... :roll: The DFB have been warned, by UEFA, to get the fields sorted out.

France playing to the usual Deschamps system - so they'll come good around the time of the semis... ;) Dutch were fortunate - the French had 14 shots on goal, so production is there; sometimes it just isn't your night...