O flower of Scotland

[sasguru]

Well, it was no disgrace, we played a good game.

Yeah excellent campaign by Scotland - twas the Ukraine game that did you.

[AtW]

Yeah excellent campaign by Scotland - twas the Ukraine game that did you.

You mean Georgia?

[sasguru]

You mean Georgia?

Was it Georgia?. These ex-USSR countries are all a blur to me.

[wendigo100]

When Totti at the last euro cup spit on the danish footballer nobody showed all the kicks he was given from the beginning while the referee was unable to keep him quiet.

Sly little kicks, elbows, punching, pinching, scratching, hair-pulling, shirt-pulling, diving, stamping, spitting, ref-baiting ... yep, the world has learned a lot from Italian football!

[wendigo100]

Oh, I forgot corruption and match-fixing.

[Francko]

Sly little kicks, elbows, punching, pinching, scratching, hair-pulling, shirt-pulling, diving, stamping, spitting, ref-baiting ... yep, the world has learned a lot from Italian football!

Those things do happen when you actually play proper football. Sure if you go for the english style kick-from-the-midfield-and-hope-it-scores then you have less chances of using those tactics.*

* You might have missed the most recent competitions otherwise you might remember how Ballack flew in mid air for nothing in the attempt to get a foul or the brasilian guy who pretended to be hit in the face and fell on the floor or Owen doing similar things.... the list is long.

[AtW]

the list is long.

But noone does it better than italians

[wendigo100]

Those things do happen when you actually play proper football. Sure if you go for the english style kick-from-the-midfield-and-hope-it-scores then you have less chances of using those tactics.*

* You might have missed the most recent competitions otherwise you might remember how Ballack flew in mid air for nothing in the attempt to get a foul or the brasilian guy who pretended to be hit in the face and fell on the floor or Owen doing similar things.... the list is long.

No, I saw all that. Like I said, the rest of the world has learned a lot from the Italians!

Apart from Owen, I just wish the English were any good at it.