Euro/World/International Football - Fantastic goals last night,

[mentalcase]

I'm backing England to win the euros, if, and I know it's a big IF, southgate plays the right team, theres no reason we cannot go and win it.

[mentalcase]

Will there be a Euro thread or we continuing on this one.

[1964white]

Will there be a Euro thread or we continuing on this one.

We could have designated Euro thread, or I can change this title header to EURO 2024.

I believe we generally have separate EURO/WORLD CUP threads.

What do you & others think?

[mentalcase]

We could have designated Euro thread, or I can change this title header to EURO 2024.

I believe we generally have separate EURO/WORLD CUP threads.

What do you & others think?

I'm all for a seperate one, there will be plenty interest on it, then if someone still wants to bleat on about Uruguay they can use this one.

[whiteswan]

England warm up game on ITV tonight v Bosnia wotsit 7.45

[Kennyb41]

A feeling i just got : Players like Maguire shouldn't be anywhere near the starting 11, GS is gonna stumble across a better CH pairing because of an injury to Maguire types.

Basically this dumb fecker is gonna end up finding the best England 11 thru happen chance and not his own choices.

We'll end up with summert like Stones/Guehi coz there's feck all left, and then they'll become world beaters and he'll claim it all along.

The same'll probably happen all overt park coz he'll never feckin find em.

[Kennyb41]

I'm all for a seperate one, there will be plenty interest on it, then if someone still wants to bleat on about Uruguay they can use this one.

That reminds me, I haven't looked at owt on them for a bit

[Kennyb41]

Uruguay should not be able to compete with football's super powers but for almost a century now this small South American country has continued to defy logic. Adam Bate examines Uruguay's lengthy love affair with the beautiful game.

Have you heard? Football is coming home. Well, that's good news for Uruguay. The Estadio Centenario in Montevideo was the venue for the first ever World Cup final and is the only stadium in the world to be designated by FIFA as a historic monument. Uruguay won that tournament in 1930 and now they are back in the quarter-finals again, dreaming of a repeat.

Their success is an ongoing miracle. As 15-time winners of the Copa America with two World Cup triumphs and a couple of Olympic gold medals, this is the most successful nation in the history of football. Extraordinary given that this country also has a population of just three-and-a-half million - a third of the number living in Paris let alone France.

So how exactly can a nation with fewer male inhabitants than Friday's quarter-final opponents have active registered footballers continue to punch so far above its weight? It is one thing for New Zealand to be the greatest rugby team on earth but quite another to compete in football - a game that so many bigger and richer countries cherish so dearly.

Perhaps the key is that while the British take great pride in their role as the codifiers of this beautiful game and Brazilians regard themselves as its greatest exponents, neither nation is truly defined by the sport. Those countries and others are too influential in the fields of science and art, language, legislature and popular culture for that ever to be possible.

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For Uruguay, it is a little different - a fact that has been readily acknowledged by some of its most prominent citizens right from the outset. When the country won the gold medal at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Atilio Narancio, the then president of the Uruguayan football federation declared: "We are no longer just a tiny spot on the map of the world."

[Kennyb41]

Wow, they've been using a helluva lot of players recently, average age 23.6yrs.

Latest Costa Rica 0-0 Uruguay friendly 1st June, hardly any 'first teamers'

Next game D-day v Mec-hey-co last friendly before the South American 'Euro's'

Then : Panama, Bolivia, USA

UP THE COPA BERT !

[Muppet the Cat]

[Barlow Boy]

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I see Connor Roberts and Joe Rodon have both withdrawn from the squad.

[whiteswan]

I see Connor Roberts and Joe Rodon have both withdrawn from the squad.

Pity Dan and Ampadu haven't. It's only a friendly

[SG90]

We could have designated Euro thread, or I can change this title header to EURO 2024.

I believe we generally have separate EURO/WORLD CUP threads.

What do you & others think?

Separate as it will draw 50+ pages easily

[whiteswan]

England on channel 4 not ITV

[whiteswan]

This is like watching paint dry...

[Jaydog]

This is like watching paint dry...

That’s what Gareth Southgate does in his spare time as a hobby.
“Oooh look that marigold is drying well”.

[whiteswan]

That’s what Gareth Southgate does in his spare time as a hobby.
“Oooh look that marigold is drying well”.

Do you mean magnolia?

[Jaydog]

Do you mean magnolia?

Yes

[Cjay]

This is like watching paint dry...

Fortunately Swannie all Leeds fans have been training for watching boring Southgate style for 11 months. . . . . .

[weasel]

Does anyone know what the point of having Southgate is? He seems to have his favourites regardless and seems to have his own reasons to not pick players. The left back situation is a joke of his own making. Not bringing Toney on seems to suggest that GS doesn't want to give him a chance to prove he is far better as a striker than the 'versatile' Watkins (yeah we really need someone in the squad who could play on the wing if needed). Bringing Kane on last night was stupid, reminded me of when Marsch brought Rodrigo on when we were crusiing in the cup and he then got injured. Wrap Kane up, he has played loads for Munich, loads for England and it is far better to rest him until the tournament starts.