Meh. We kind of sucked (i.e. Sweden). And England hasn't impressed me either so that must mean Sweden was really horrible this year.
This sort of post is why I like this forum so much.The weather in Oslo sucks today, and I've got nothing better to do, so I tried to sort out all the different combinations of total points you can get in a group of 4 where all teams play every other team once, as is the case in the Euros and the World Cup.
I concluded that there are 32 unique combinations if one does not include which team is 1st, which one is 2nd and so on, but only counts the number of points for the 1st placed team, the 2nd placed team et cetera. In 7 of these combinations, the winning team has 9 points. There are 11 combinations where the group winners have 7 points. The least likely point tally for a group winner is 3, which only happens if all matches in the group are drawn.
If the rain continues, I'll go through the last Euros and World Cups back to 1994 and see which of the 31 outcomes has happened most frequently.
Not just Albie, but me too. I celebrated wildly in the pub last night (stomach and head are paying for that today), I just can't help myself supporting England. I would probably even cheer a T***y goal. This has been the most enjoyable tournament for a number of reasons, one of them being that I wasn't really looking forward to it too much.Looks like someone is following the tournament a bit more intensely than (perhaps) expected in advance. ;-)
He's just not consistent enough, that's his problem. Sometimes he's blinding, next he's crap. I do not think based on 30 minutes of football, he should be a starter v Ukraine. Bring him on late as a sub.Last night when Milner was taken off for Walcott, lots of my mates were cheering that substitution while I said something along the lines of "Not Walcott, he's bloody useless". Shows how much I know. (but I still don't think he's very good)
@ Foro
In Euro 2008, the Group A was pretty close to having the 7th tie-breaking criteria. Had Czech Republic and Turkey have drawn, the game would go to penalty shootouts. Turkey scored at 90+1 I believe to get the victory.
Not just Albie, but me too. I celebrated wildly in the pub last night (stomach and head are paying for that today), I just can't help myself supporting England. I would probably even cheer a T***y goal. This has been the most enjoyable tournament for a number of reasons, one of them being that I wasn't really looking forward to it too much.
Last night when Milner was taken off for Walcott, lots of my mates were cheering that substitution while I said something along the lines of "Not Walcott, he's bloody useless". Shows how much I know. (but I still don't think he's very good)
Football eh? Bloody hell.
Can't say I'm happy to see Greece go through. I was hoping for Russia vs Netherlands or Portugal in a quarter-final and Poland vs Germany in another ...