Mens Olympic Football Megathread (Super, me arse)

bwatson

naughtb4 wrote: »

Congratulations to the Welsh fans according to the BBC they didnt boo the English anthem, shame about the Uruguayan anthem :S

Is it only the English anthem at a football match or does it continue to be the English anthem when say, a gold is won in the cycling or an English woman and a Scot row to a gold medal together? On this stage its Great Britain.

Red Crow

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Classic bit of goal poaching from a Chelsea star. Took a chance, got himself into the box.
Him and Torres to rip it up next season

Hazard's agent is worth £6Million. Surely he'll have a few goals in him too.

Sgt Pepper 64

Eli Manning wrote: »

Hazard's agent is worth £6Million. Surely he'll have a few goals in him too.

Care to back up that random comment from Fergie with actual proof?

Thought not!

Oh and Utd are going to be ok, they really are :eek:

ThunbergsAreGo

bwatson wrote: »

Is it only the English anthem at a football match or does it continue to be the English anthem when say, a gold is won in the cycling or an English woman and a Scot row to a gold medal together? On this stage its Great Britain.

i agree entirely

Great Britain are actually looking good today, U-r-gay have been very underwhelming

bwatson

naughtb4 wrote: »

i agree entirely

Great Britain are actually looking good today, U-r-gay have been very underwhelming

They've been underwhelming the entire tournament. I actually went to watch the first game they played against the UAE, and although they won they really were atrocious. Its not just that they were unfit, many of them looked completely unbothered by the fact that they were in the tournament. When that attitude begins to creep into the olympics (here and in the tennis ive seen it) it really puts a dampener on the whole thing.

Cavani was simply awful, just so poor and completely uninterested.

Mars Bar

Great save from Butland.

ThunbergsAreGo

Butland had impressed in the little i have seen

klose

take cavani off, no interest atall

Jimmy Iovine

They'd have been better off bringing Forlán than Cavani.

kingshankly

Pitch a disgrace

Mr.Crinklewood

Uruguay goal surely coming

Sgt Pepper 64

Handball - this guy never learns

Jimmy Iovine

Ridiculous yellow from Suarez. Plain stupid trying to catch it.

CR 7

Suarez up to his old tricks.

keano_afc

Like playing on a cabbage patch. Woeful pitch.

Big Knox

Sturridge is such a wasteful greedy player!

Mars Bar

Cavani decides to care about 2 and a half games too late.

Sgt Pepper 64

Big Knox wrote: »

Sturridge is such a wasteful greedy player!

Where do you get that from? He lost the ball because he just didnt play a simple pass and dwelled on it too long thats all

Jimmy Iovine

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Where do you get that from? He lost the ball because he just didnt play a simple pass and dwelled on it too long thats all

That's his signature move. He never seems to do anything else.

Pass? I don't think he knows what that word means.

Big Knox

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Where do you get that from? He lost the ball because he just didnt play a simple pass and dwelled on it too long thats all

I'm not just talking about that one incident. He never lifts his head or does the simple things and he tries to go himself more often than not even if there is a much better option available!

Edit: I think my sarcasm detecter is asleep!

citytillidie

See Jonathan Pearce on the BBC still thinks GB can go to another Olympics for football its as if they dont know its a once off from FIFA

Sgt Pepper 64

Big Knox wrote: »

I'm not just talking about that one incident. He never lifts his head or does the simple things and he tries to go himself more often than not even if there is a much better option available!

Edit: I think my sarcasm detecter is asleep!

he does need to improve thats for sure, (and he is still young) but the flip side is his ability to do the unexpected and score goals

greedy is the term i have trouble with, I wish Torres had been more greedy and had the confidence to shoot

Jimmy Iovine

Would have been a screamer there. What a shot.

Mars Bar

that was some shot. Undeserved goal if it came though.

Subs after the normal 90 should be banned. This is a pointless substitution.

Jimmy Iovine

**** that Jonathan Pearse lad is annoying. Bigging up Butland's save at the end there to be the greatest of all time. It was practically straight at him. If he didn't catch I'd be disappointed.

klose

Quarters are on saturday augest and are

Japan-Egypt, Manchester, 12.00
Mexico-Senegal, London, 14.30
Brazil-Honduras, Newcastle, 17.00
Great Britain-Korea Republic, Cardiff, 19.30

I think the winners of the gb match face the winners of the brazil game so theres a fair chance gb v brazil in the semi where presumaby their tournament ends but still a bronze looks on for gb I reckon, thought they'd be gone at this stage but then again I thought spain and uraguay would walk their groups. Football eh

grenache

Thought GB played some great stuff tonight. None of that puke football we see from England or Scotland. Defended well too. Ramsey and Sinclair showed their class and Bellamy was a live wire throughout. Cavani was v disappointing for Uruguay, he didn't seem to want to be there. At least Suarez put in the effort.

BKC

Handy quarter-final for Brazil...

Get in.

SantryRed

Neymar knew what he was doing there.

markie29

SantryRed wrote: »

Neymar knew what he was doing there.

shocking dive...the Honduran player never moved his leg towards Neymar at all.

Just saw the red card, FFS.

Goddamnit.

MagicMarker

Team GB: Butland; Taylor, Richards, Caulker, Bertrand; Ramsey, Allen, Cleverley; Bellamy (c), Sturridge, Sinclair

South Korea: Sung-Ryong Jung; Yun, Chang-Soo Kim, Hwang, Young-Kwon Kim; Ki, Ji, Nam, Jong-Woo Park, Koo; Chu-Young Park

Paully D

JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

BKC

Paully D wrote: »

JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

What did he do? Or are you on about the first goal?

Sgt Pepper 64

BKC wrote: »

What did he do? Or are you on about the first goal?

gb 1-1. gb missed peno to go 2-1 up

Paully D

BKC wrote: »

What did he do? Or are you on about the first goal?

Yep, the first goal

On another note Ramsey has scored so famous people all around the world will be very worried.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101478/When-Arsenal-player-Aaron-Ramsey-scores-famous-dies.html

BKC

Paully D wrote: »

Yep, the first goal

I came on here, saw your post, checked on my Paddy Power tab and the match was suspended, so I went over to the Olympics thread in After Hours and told them it was 2-1 to South Korea...

everdead.ie

Anyone else think Sinclair is a headless chicken version of wallcott?.....

Leiva

everdead.ie wrote: »

Anyone else think Sinclair is a headless chicken version of wallcott?.....

So that's essentially a headless ,headless chicken .

everdead.ie

Leiva wrote: »

So that's essentially a headless ,headless chicken .

Yes that's what I was getting at

TheTownie

Leiva wrote: »

So that's essentially a headless ,headless chicken .

Same age and their birthdays are only 9 days apart.. They must have come from the same chicken factory.

Mr.Crinklewood

At least Walcott could grace the running track at the Olympics.

everdead.ie

Caulker has looked great so far.

Mars Bar

GB already missed a peno in this game? Bad omen!

keano_afc

Pearce: "Now remember, we're TEAM GB, not England."

Can the Welsh players take 2 pens?

everdead.ie

Question, do keepers get away without critisim?

There the last South Korean lad took an 8 yard run up which left only really able to put the ball right or straight and butland goes right but no one will hear anything about it.

everdead.ie

Also saw that sturridge miss coming really poor.

Mars Bar

Sturridge, why did you check your run? That's illegal anyway and should have been retaken.