Euro 2012

[DominicDecoco]

Jordon ****ing Henderson.

I knew we would lose, but I didn't know it would be an actual tactic.

Haha! Mediocre, isn't he.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

There's something very strange about England playing for a penalty shootout.

 

[DominicDecoco]

Anything else but an Italy victory would be a disgrace.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

And on to the penalties we go.

Who ever wins this, I cannot see them go to the final unless the DFB-Elf has a pretty bad day. Especially I cannot see England not loose such a fixture.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

England's skill is such that their price on betfair has actually length'd since the final whistle.

 

[hrotha]

Italy not playing like Italy at all.

Good to see.

Italy have been playing un-Italian-like for a couple of years now. It's certainly good news for football.

 

[Pippo_San]

Here goes Super Mario

 

[Frosty]

England's skill is such that their price on betfair has actually length'd since the final whistle.

Can imagine it being 3-0 to italy on penalties

 

[DominicDecoco]

Come Italy. Remove that disgusting grin of Hart's face.

 

[DominicDecoco]

 

[DominicDecoco]

Come Italy. Remove that disgusting grin of Hart's face.

And Oh how Pirlo did!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Daylight robbery.

 

[Pippo_San]

VAMOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Italiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

 

[hrotha]

Lol England and penalty shootouts.

 

[roundabout]

I am glad that it ended this way.

 

[will10]

lol, well it can only be penalties

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

So Italy wins it. Very deserved.
Even though it's not nice to see Italy in the semis either.

Oh and it's just nice to see Cole to fail like that.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Glad England is out.

Don't need another Chelsea

 

[DominicDecoco]

Daylight robbery.

Haha! Loving the sarcasm.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

And Oh how Pirlo did!

Your comment's make it really hard for me to appreciate Italy progressing to the Semis.

 

[jens_attacks]

good end.goodbye shiitty england

grande pirlo e buffon!

 

[DominicDecoco]

Your comment's make it really hard for me to appreciate Italy progressing to the Semis.

Haha! Oh, come on! Lighten up. That was a deserved victory and we also get to see Pirlo in another match. What's not to like?!

 

[Amsterhammer]

Oh and it's just nice to see Cole to fail like that.

That was the icing on the cake of Pirlo's panenka! Thank God that justice was done to this game. England, the Chelsea of Europe.

I also hugely enjoyed a West Ham reject scoring the winner.

 

[The Hitch]

Glad England is out.

Don't need another Chelsea

It would be great if the one time England won a penalty shootout they ended up having to play Germany in the semi with 3 days rest to germanies 5 having just gone 120 minutes and having worse players on every part of the pitch.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The right result.

I feel like England weren't so much negative as lacking in the invention later on. They created some decent chances in the early running, and it looked like it would be a much more even match than it turned out to be. But frankly, there is a gulf in class between the two teams and it was shown up tonight; Italy still have far to go; their lack of finishing must be a worry as they can't guarantee creating the same number of chances as, say, Spain or Germany, and Pirlo is the one cog everything works around. However, they were definitely the better team tonight and deserve to go through.

So far it feels like every quarter final has gone the right way. If things go the right way we're likely to have the Spain-Germany final everybody expected at the start. That should be good, though, given that Germany have the attacking strength to ask questions of Spain, yet have seemed occasionally fragile at the back themselves.