Euro 2016 Group E, Ireland v Italy & Sweden v Belgium, 8PM RTE, TV3, ITV & ITV 4

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Strumms wrote: »

We were the better side no doubt.. playing some very good football.. moving it fast with a bit of purpose and pace and mixing it up nicely ... Italy sloppy and looking half arsed which suits us.... this ref though... fųcks sake..

I expect Italy to come out strong in the second half. I hope I'm wrong

Den_M

Jinonatron wrote: »

This ref will be getting the ride off an Irish wan today

What are you on about? The ref has chickened out of at least 2 penos for us in the first half alone. Ireland have been great in fairness

Knex*

Hard to get a penalty call that's any more obvious than that one, tbh. Find it hard to believe that the ref could have missed it, and even harder to believe that anyone could interpret that as a legal tackle.

Manutd_4life

How's the Sweden Belgium game going

AllGunsBlazing

The word has gone out - Paddy is to be sent home.

Strumms

madcabbage wrote: »

What's the point of the extra officials? Seriously?

Indeed... cheaper and more useful to grab a few leftover mannequins from cleary's and stick a uniform on them... a joke...

bear1

How that gob****e didn't see a blantant penalty STANDING BEHIND IT is beyond me.
We are playing fantastically well

SEPT 23 1989

Did he ref the match in Escape to Victory?

pudzey101

No doubt a peno would be given if we where France , Spain , Germany or even Italy !!!

tigger123

Not enough words for how much bullsh*t that it is.

Green Fella

SantryRed wrote: »

Why the **** is nobody getting in the refs ear at half time? MON should make Roy have a word in his ear. We need to start intimidating this ref like a lot of the big teams would.

Naivety and we will pay for it! The players should be in his face ala Terry, Wayne Rooney, every big team!

The Ref is a ****ing dog, total disgrace that we should have 2 penalties

baldbear

The ref knew he made a mistake the way he twitched with that ear piece after. He knew he messed up.

I'd say the Turkish mafia have him paid off.

Bounty Hunter

The selection seems justified so far and Ireland are playing well and the only team really making things happen. A point is no good though so hopefully we dont get hit on the counter even though at the moment Ireland look more likely to score even if it could be through a penalty cos the Italians have their arms all over the place at times and maybe the ref will be wisened up to this and also might be feeling some pressure after not giving one for the foul on McLean.

murpho999

What we wanted to happen is happening, Italy are not at the races and are just defending.

We need to be more creative.

The penalty decision was shocking. Blatant penalty and makes me wonder about the ref's integrity to be honest.

Mec27

We have the players, this game shows it, have we dominated possession, ****ing class. So happy with this performance, well done the lads.

Francie Barrett

Fantastic performance. In terms of effort, every single player gave 100%. The only problem is we have a lack of quality in the final third. The fact that we are reliant on a penalty is troubling.

AllGunsBlazing

Meanwhile on tv3....

mad m

This is going to be one of those bloody matches, we are doing great but will get no rewards

Green Fella

pudzey101 wrote: »

No doubt a peno would be given if we where France , Spain , Germany or even Italy !!!

Look at the pen Spain got last night, and Austria earlier

We had 3-4 claims for penalties far worse in one half!

sydthebeat

Italians not interested in this, we need to give wes at least 40 mins, in for Brady and take ward off

Sand

~Rebel~ wrote: »

every ****ing decision we should be surrounding this ref and screaming at him...its an embarrassing performance from him and we're just leaving him away with it.

The half time team talk should include instructing the Irish players to surround the referee and make his life miserable every-time he gives a crappy decision so he dreads waving play-on. Hes obviously scared of making a big call against a big nation, the Irish players need to make him more afraid of another confrontation with them.

Manutd_4life

Fuming after that. Conte is gonna throw on the big guns now and finish us in a split second.

BoJack Horseman

madcabbage wrote: »

What's the point of the extra officials? Seriously?

Wasn't it because the UK company behind Hawkeye (used in the EPL) offered it to FIFA/UEFA after the 2012 WC and Sepp etc said to "get f*cked c*nts, extra linesmen are better!"?

GreNoLi

Not entirely sure if that was a peno tbh.

Panthro

We have her lads, we have her

Rayne Wooney

If it was the other way around with Italy needing a win it would have been a peno

The ref bottled it, less fallout if you give a wrong decision a big nations way

superfurry1

~Rebel~ wrote: »

every ****ing decision we should be surrounding this ref and screaming at him...its an embarrassing performance from him and we're just leaving him away with it.

Hope you are not an Ireland fan please don't let the greatest fans in the universe down. Penalty was very similar to Silva's the other night far from stonewall ogbonna one worse but hardly ever penalised

Peist2007

The Italians don't give a crap about this match. They are only focussed on Spain. They just about tried an attack in the whole half. We need to show more quality plain and simple. We have been on the front foot but need to capitalise

Morrison J

The number of people who don't rate McClean on here is ridiculous. We're a different side with him out there. Both more solid defensively and more of an attacking threat.

Reckon people not liking McClean the person gets in the way of the fact he's clearly one of our better footballers.

trashcan

Unbelievable call not to give the penalty. Would be worried that we won't be able to repeat that in the second half.

BorneTobyWilde

We never contested that drop ball on 17th min .
Wtf .
We just let them have it .

RobertKK

Some on twitter think the referee forgot his guide dog, and Stevie Wonder would have seen it was a penalty.

sonic85

Good first half. One thing Im a bit worried about is when we get the ball in defence there doesn't really seem to be much of an outlet. At one stage Coleman McCarthy and Duffy I think were playing around with it and couldn't get out of the corner. Keogh and Duffy have looked a bit clueless on the ball - not knowing what to do with it.

Other than that we've looked good. Keep it up lads!

edgecutter

GreNoLi wrote: »

Not entirely sure if that was a peno tbh.

Tackle from behind. It's a foul anywhere on the pitch.

PeterTheEighth

"I think we should play like that all the time... "

Yeah, John, all we need is for every international football team that we play against to put out their second team, then that should work.

Manutd_4life

Howard Webb speaking bull as usual

Strumms

GreNoLi wrote: »

Not entirely sure if that was a peno tbh.

Get yourself off to specsavers.

PTH2009

Even if we lose/draw play like this from now on and we will do good. Young enough team out there now. Blatant penalty on McLean

sligeach

Seeing that challenge again for the non penalty is boiling my blood.

murpho999

glued wrote: »

Giles talking out of his hole as usual.

What is wrong with what he said?

xtal191

Playing well and still think we'll win this one, Italians clearly couldn't give a toss

Scorpion Sting

That ref should never ref at a major tournament again after that disgrace of a first half.

JustTheOne

Small teams need those big decisions.

It's just not fair.

murpho999

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

"I think we should play like that all the time... "

Yeah, John, all we need is for every international football team that we play against to put out their second team, then that should work.

He's comparing it to how they played against Belgium where the stood off and didn't pass. This is better.

Green Fella

trashcan wrote: »

Unbelievable call not to give the penalty. Would be worried that we won't be able to repeat that in the second half.

Its the best half we've played in a long time, but Italy clearly dont give 2 ****s about this game

The ref is f-ucking is big time

PeterTheEighth

I have to say those ads during the football breaks are nauseating..

Beer promoted by rich footballers who never drink beer.
Fast food promoted when rich footballers would never eat the same food.
UEFA calling for fair play, when football is so hugely corrupt.

I feel dirty.

ctrl-alt-delete

Manutd_4life wrote: »

Howard Webb speaking bull as usual

What has he had to say?

Mr.Crinklewood

In light of the penalty incident I am withdrawing my tongue from the referee.

trashcan

GreNoLi wrote: »

Not entirely sure if that was a peno tbh.

Where's that "Not sure if serious" pic when you need it ?

Manutd_4life

It's bad enough our team has no star players. Referee was shocking