OT: Euro 2016 Day Six
9am England vs Wales
12pm Ukraine vs Northern Ireland
3pm Germany vs Poland
All matches are on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and Watch ESPN. We'll start a seperate thread for the USMNT vs Ecuador tonight at 9:30pm.
England (4-3-3):
Hart
Walker Rose Cahill Smalling
Rooney Dier Alli
Sterling Kane Lallana
Wales (5-3-2):
Hennessey
Gunter Taylor Williams Chester Davies
Ledley Allen Ramsey
Bale Robson-Kanu
per TopBet:
Wales +475 , Tie +255 , England -190
Go Whales!
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Wails!
Go Whails!
That Moby Dick is a deadly striker.
Raheem Sterling. English Wondo #ENG
— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) June 16, 2016
I don't watch a much EPL at all, but do pay attention to international teams...what's up with Sterling? Whenever I watch England he's always playing, he's fast, he gets a ton of hype and I'm never really impressed with his performances. It's like he's a black hole that attacks disappear into. Isn't he making a crap ton of money from one of the biggest clubs out there?
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He's with Man City now and they paid a lot for him. Sterling hasn't lived up to his potential yet which isn't unusual for 21 year old, but most 21 year old's aren't starting ahead of Jamie Vardy, Ross Barkley and Daniel Sturridge at the Euro's.
He's got a lot of talent but I can't believe he's starting over Vardy today.
Wales, is that a country?
Yes and No.
How many countries are in this country?
Four.
So the UK is a country? Yes.
So Wales and England are not countries? No, they are
So Northern Ireland is a country too? No
So some are countries and they're all inside if one country? Kinda
Ok
or kingdoms that operate as a single political entity for most international purposes. The countries of England and Wales are united by an annexation of Wales into the kingdom of Great Britain which was formed after the conquering of Scotland by England (and the associated Acts of Union). The Kingdom of Northern Ireland has the same monarch as Great Britain, so the formal title of the soverign state is the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
FIFA recognizes individual nations within a confederation or soverign state concept but not incorporated territories, hence England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all having individual teams. The Olympic Commitee recognizes Soverign states and federated territories only, which is why Great Britain competes at the Olympics (not England), but Puerto Rico and the USVI are allowed separate Olympic teams from the main US team.
GoBlueInEugene was referencing an amazing video starring Jason Sudeikis that NBC put out two years ago to promote their EPL coverage. YouTube it, it's brilliantly hilarious.
still doesn't mean their insane convoluted system of countries and territories makes sense to me
The United States of America is made up of 50 states, a District which hosts the Capital, and 16 territories, 5 inhabited (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Marianas, and the Virgin Islands). All the inhabitants of which are considered to be American citizens, without full voting rights.
Much more convoluted.
This is less complicated than a country with 50 states and a few territories? You realize there are also counties in the UK as well as overseas territories and dependencies
The equivalent would like if Texas was a sovereign nation within the US and New England was a collection of countries that collectively was New England was additionally part of the USA
My computer at work has video blocked, so I can't watch the match. I saw a still shot of the supposed hand ball. Looked pretty clear cut to me, but what do those watching think?
It hit the defenders head, then shoulder, then hand as he was coming back to the ground. Looked like his arms were coming out to balance his fall. Wasn't intentionally going for the ball, incidental contact. Good call, IMO.
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They called a penalty on Bedoya in the USA-Colombia match for the same situation. Either call ALL handballs or don't call the ones that are clearly unintentional. Personally, I would call the one like just happened in this match and the Bedoya one, but not the one that happened in injury time in the Chile match (arm was bent with hand behind back).
It was Yedlin, but either way I agree. That call in the 97th minute of that Chile match was horrendous
ENGLAND GONNA ENGLAND! GO WALES!
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"Is it really a great idea to have an English team comprised mostly of Tottenham players?"
England in Euros 16 = So Spursy.
There aren't that many other successful EPL teams that have English players in prominent roles like Spurs do. There's also the fact that most of the Spurs guys are young and England is in a bit of a transition from the Gerrard-Lampard-Terry crew.
Who else are they going to put in over the Tottenham players?
Bale just embarrassed the hell out of Hart.
Seems like Bale put it perfectly bended around the wall and at the corner. I'd give credit more to Bale than blame to Hart.
The Welsh Black Knights have come to play.
If it were anyone basically but Hart, I'd probably agree with you. However, he plays for city and thus is crap. I do like Vincent Kompany though.
I think Vincent Kompany is a horrible analyst. He said England didn't deserve the win and was out-played.
What game was he watching?
Possession: Advantage England 64% to 36%
Shots: Advantage England 21 to 7
Corner Kicks: Advantage England 9 to 3
I think he must be related to Mark May.
To be fair, embarrassing goalkeepers is kind of his thing.
do they play Brass Bonanza?
Can't believe Hart didn't stop that. Either way it's probably not a howler? It was a hell of a shot but nearly 40 yards out!
"Green lets it in. It's a Howler!"
Ah, fond memories of England being England.
As Joe Hart might say: 'Stop that f***ing ball'https://t.co/n6X6RynojJ
— sportingintelligence (@sportingintel) June 16, 2016
I could watch that all day. Simply Hartbreaking.
I'll show myself out now.
Vincent Kompany sighting - drink!
Let's go Whales!
Vary does it again
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Vardy
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Marcus Rashford coming on for Lallana. Well done Uncle Roy.
Glad a player from my Wolverhampton Wanderers is getting some time as Dave Edwards got subbed in. Started the Slovakia match as well.
Side note. This guy is much better than stu Holden. Like stu as a player but not a fan as a commentator
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The ESPN guys (exception to that rule: Twellman) are much better than the Fox guys. McManaman is solid even if he's a big time England Homer.
I honestly think Twellman and Holden are the same person. Same nancy boy voice, and same annoying commentary and they look alike.
I think Stu will get better, he just started in-game commentary.
I really can't stand Twellman. He's far too critical and unprofessional at times.
Another odd thing, with Fox coverage of Copa America, is that Brad Friedel is doing USMNT matches and he's a paid employee of US Soccer and the Under 20 coach. This seems very odd to me.
Also, Brad has the most annoying voice and cadence of any of them. He drives me crazy.
I actually like Brad an his strange ambiguous accent.
I love the soccer announcers on ESPN.
I would listen to Ian Darke broadcast a Purdue - Rutgers Water Polo match.