The Football.....

[craigwend]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/62372849

Euro 2022:
England's players gatecrash coach Sarina Wiegman's post-match news conference with a rendition of 'Football's Coming Home'.

 

[Brandane]

Where's @Brandane I wonder?!!

Not only this, but it has to pee it down in Scotchland tomorrow!!

What? Have England won something at the Commonwealth games? Throwing a spear or whatever??

PS... It pees down most days in Scotland; this is not news. It gives us water in which to wash. I hear it's been dry in England for a while. Someone who listens to the BBC told me that. Did you not have a warm day recently which was of armageddon proportions? Or was that just London?

*Brandane now switches off all English based media sources until the hysteria passes over. 56 years (and still counting) that will be, going on one previous experience!

 

[Stephenite]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/62372849

Euro 2022:
England's players gatecrash coach Sarina Wiegman's post-match news conference with a rendition of 'Football's Coming Home'.

Love it

 

[Accy cyclist]

I hear it's been dry in England for a while.

Or was that just London?

The south east according to reports. Up here it's been on and off all summer. I said to somebody on Saturday when it was bad, that if it didn't go dark until 9 o clock you could be excused for thinking it was November.

 

[jowwy]

The memes have started - 400k a week

 

[Mike_P]

I was wondering how my many of the stupidly overpaid Premiership strikers would have successfully done that lob Ella Toone did; odds on a fair number just blasting the ball straight at the goalie or to the side/above the goalie such that it missed the goal by a country mile.

 

[jowwy]

I was wondering how my many of the stupidly overpaid Premiership strikers would have successfully done that lob Ella Toone did; odds on a fair number just blasting the ball straight at the goalie or to the side/above the goalie such that it missed the goal by a country mile.

its easier when the goalkeeper is only 5ft 9......i wonder how many times she would have scored that goal against a stupidly overpaid premiership goal keeper standing at 6ft2 to 6ft 7......

terrible position from the goal keeper, should have stood up, made herself big......but instead dropped to one knee and made herself look even smaller....

But was a top finish from a top footballer, i just dont see the point in comparing the man and womens game

 

[AndyRM]

The memes have started - 400k a week

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The Mr. Sitter bit is funny. The rest? Not so much.

Does anyone actually give a f*ck about the Charity Shield? It's a glorified pre season friendly.

 

[jowwy]

The Mr. Sitter bit is funny. The rest? Not so much.

Does anyone actually give a f*ck about the Charity Shield? It's a glorified pre season friendly.

UNITED fans have been using the charity shield as a way of pointing out they have won more trophies than liverpool in english football...so yeh they obviously do and PEP always says when they win it, its the 1st trophy in the cabinet for the season

so whats good for the goose

 

[T4tomo]

its easier when the goalkeeper is only 5ft 9......i wonder how many times she would have scored that goal against a stupidly overpaid premiership goal keeper standing at 6ft2 to 6ft 7......

well it was about 12-15ft high when it went over the goalkeeper.....

 

[jowwy]

well it was about 12-15ft high when it went over the goalkeeper.....

but the keeper rushed out too early and didnt make herself big......made toones mind up for her, if she stayed back and let toone take another touch, then come out, its then harder to get that lob over the keeper.

 

[T4tomo]

but the keeper rushed out too early and didnt make herself big

she would never have made herself 15ft tall though...and Toone is looking a the ball at that point anyway, having seen the keeper come out.

if she stayed back and let toone take another touch,

...Toone would have been able to slot it in the corner

She was thru and one one one, didn't you claim to have been a decent keeper? Very little the keeper can do about it, if you stay back you're beaten, if you come out you get lobbed. Given executing the lob is probably a harder skill than slotting it in the corner, the keeper probably did all she could.

Anyway the original point was that it was a beautifully executed lob, which indeed it was.

I've really enjoyed watching the tournament, a most refreshing change from Men's footy.

 

[jowwy]

she would never have made herself 15ft tall though...and Toone is looking a the ball at that point anyway, having seen the keeper come out.


...Toone would have been able to slot it in the corner

She was thru and one one one, didn't you claim to have been a decent keeper? Very little the keeper can do about it, if you stay back you're beaten, if you come out you get lobbed. Given executing the lob is probably a harder skill than slotting it in the corner, the keeper probably did all she could.

Anyway the original point was that it was a beautifully executed lob, which indeed it was.

I've really enjoyed watching the tournament, a most refreshing change from Men's footy.

as a keeper, i was better at one to ones and shot stopping, than i was flapping at corners......i believe, by staying back, you can then come out and close the angles down better, knowing you can get lobbed, which was always one of my fears ( the lob)

no taking away from the fact it was a good goal, as i stated in my post. i just think the keeper will look at that, along with the coach and see what she could have done differently.

but comparing them against the men...its ridiculous

 

[Brandane]

One question....
Why is it that the England player who celebrated her goal by pulling her shirt off and running all over the pitch has been hailed as liberating for women, caught up in the moment, heroic etc etc... BUT.... if that had been a male, he would have been booked. Double standards?

 

[jowwy]

One question....
Why is it that the England player who celebrated her goal by pulling her shirt off and running all over the pitch has been hailed as liberating for women, caught up in the moment, heroic etc etc... BUT.... if that had been a male, he would have been booked. Double standards?

she did get booked......