OT - MGoBlog Euro 2012 Bracket group on ESPN!
Similar to their March Madness competition, ESPN also has a bracket predictor contest for the European Championships that begin today. I've created an MGoBlog group, and if anyone is interested please join! I know this is kind of a late notice, but I just discovered the bracket predictor today. Good luck to all!
Group Name: MGoBlog
Password: Tacopants
Link here
^Not sure if that link will work, but give it a shot!
says the password is null?
Hmm... I just changed the settings and put the password in again, give it another shot? I'm not sure why.
Go Deutschland!
Rematch in the Final!
I was *thisclose* to throwing that out there, but I went with Spain/Germany instead. Deutschland FTW!
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You ain't much. Nederland!
Watch Germany shake and bake fools all tournament long
Goddamned, mother f-ing firewall! I can't access the site.
Since Argentina isn't playing, I'm going to have to go with Spain. I know, I know - safe pick. But their squad is like an international all-star team!
I have Germany winning it all. I want England to go all the way though.
German / Netherlands / Portugal / 4th team group is going to be difficult. A good team will miss out :(
Day off today so just chilling here watching Euros all day. Can't wait.
Will eventually join that group seeing as ESPN misled me and made me think the game was at 11:30 when it actualy starts at noon
Let's go Croatia!!!
Poland scores first. Go Poles go!
"but can he make it in the EPL?"
The English are f'ing delusional.
Damnit. I can't believe I missed this.
Sorry man, I would have made it earlier but I didn't even know that there was such a thing for the Euros. If you made a bracket on ESPN at all you should still be able to join the group with any of your current ones.
It's not your fault. This would have been my first venture into the ESPN bracket challenge.
It's halftime right now. Some controversy as Greek players are racking up reds and yellow , even though they aren't really doing anything. Officiating certainly an issue in the 1st half
That was much more of a handball than the Onyewu "handball" vs Brazil.
Home field advantage I guess.
That first caution on the other hand was horrendous
He's actually running behind his average on the yellows.
http://www.soccerway.com/referees/carlos-velasco-carballo/45077/
Hmm, maybe the match fixing has spread to the EURO cup?
Group has 64 members. And people complain that there shouldn't be OT soccer posts on the board.
Some people are just dumb.
Greece tied it up. Good job by them
Is Greece playing a man down right now?
They are, one of their guys got a red card in the first
OMG WTF is going on.
Amazing drama in the 2nd half. PK for greece, Backup Polish goalie comes in, makes a save! Wow
Finally a correct call was made....
I do hate it when officiating becomes such a huge part of the game at a big stage like this.
That was a terrible PK. Before the red card I was going to say that it seemed like Greece has been able to keep better pressure while being a man down.
I still can't believe that save from Tyton, talk about instant legendary status. Poland's gonna be a party tonight.
This is based on the spurts I was able to watch streaming at work:
I thought didn't control possession when they were a man up. It seemed like the only thing they were getting were stalled out counter attacks.
Is this an incorrect view of the game since I didn't watch it all the way through.
Neither team was able to maintain possession for any length of time or manufacture any kind of build up play. Just about every offensive burst came on the counter after somebody lost possession. Defending was a bit of a clusterfuck for both teams as well.
Poland looked solid to start the game but didn't do much after that. Greece really missed a great opportunity with the missed penalty, the other one that wasn't called, and the disallowed goal that would have been clean if the ball hadn't nicked off Samaras's back to make the player on the wing offside.
Well, Russia is certainly asserting themsleves early, 2 goals in the first 24 minutes. Nice play for the first, though I didn't catch the second.
Did anyone catch the hot blonde in red?
They play on Sunday.
...but after two weeks of listening to Chris Fowler and the rest of ESPN's tennis hacks butcher every female Slavic name they uttered, I want to say for the record how much I appreciate Derek Rae's efforts to get everyone's name right.