Our funny nation...

[DonJippo]

When you guys come to visit us, just cut in the line and say this is my right, and we'll let you pass

Got ****ed up at the Ikea line...again...were you

[janvanvurpa]

Aye, we beat the Denmark team in the semis but got hammered by the French in the final.

'cept they weren't "French" in any sense of the word, they were Normans....As in Normän, the modern cognate for NOR-men aka North+men.
In other words you beat one group of Danes in the semis up Norf, but their blood relatives from across the street, the Norwegians, who just happened to be commuting to their colony in Normandy, came over in the long ships and stomped you at Hastings....

Course I don't know where in the shame rankings it stands to be beaten by Norwegians. If you were Swedes, then it would have been a lasting society rending catastrophe...

Hell even the 'Franks' were a gang of hard-ass Germans with their home pitch in Frankfort-am-Main....where did they crown their Kings for a thousand years? In the cathedral in Aachen.
Aachen is where?

[A.F.F.]

'cept they weren't "French" in any sense of the word, they were Normans....As in Normän, the modern cognate for NOR-men aka North+men.
In other words you beat one group of Danes in the semis up Norf, but their blood relatives from across the street, the Norwegians, who just happened to be commuting to their colony in Normandy, came over in the long ships and stomped you at Hastings....

Course I don't know where in the shame rankings it stands to be beaten by Norwegians. If you were Swedes, then it would have been a lasting society rending catastrophe...

Hell even the 'Franks' were a gang of hard-ass Germans with their home pitch in Frankfort-am-Main....where did they crown their Kings for a thousand years? In the cathedral in Aachen.
Aachen is where?

Eh......... What ?

[Mark in Oshawa]

Baxter is an idiot...but that is the common thread with any coach who just got his gonads handed to him by the opposition and this is how they all want to fight the press. The correct answer to Baxter is my mother may not know how to drive after watching my dad drive for 35 years, but even Helen Keller could see your team just got outplayed and outcoached and you wont take responbility for it.....

As for you Finns, if you really cared about Football, Baxter would just be hung and quartered...the same way the New Zealanders do to Rugby coaches who don't win the World Cup with the All Blacks or what we do to Canadian Hockey coaches who fail......

[A.F.F.]

what we do to Canadian Hockey coaches who fail......

No when was the last time your hockey coach failed Mark. Seriously ?

[A.F.F.]

Just an update if anyone really cares.

Stuart Baxter finally got boot from coaching but as Finns do things they do, they will keep him as a consult for the team and the coach team and naturally with full salary

[ioan]

I mean if it's easy to start a riot in Romania, why didn't they overthrow Ceausescu sooner. Didn't Romanians take quite a lot crap from Ceausescu before they decided to overthrow him? Or did you mean the Romanians are now more prone to riot than 30 years ago?

It is almost impossible to start a riot in Romania, even the so called 'Revolution' was started by the Hungarian ethnics for the Romanians.

Last time Romanian started a riot mostly on their own goes back to 1907, and even that time it was with some external influence.

[gadjo_dilo]

It is almost impossible to start a riot in Romania, even the so called 'Revolution' was started by the Hungarian ethnics for the Romanians.

Last time Romanian started a riot mostly on their own goes back to 1907, and even that time it was with some external influence.

Ha! So dear audience, Ioan is telling that the so called revolution started not because people starved, lived in cold and dark, had no human rights but because a hungarian priest ( who in time proved to be the enemy of this country ) was forced to evacuate his house.

Give me a break Ioane.....
You probably were a young pioneer by that time.

[Roamy]

A.F.F why are you surprised? After October you can't go outdoors without ten moose skins on. But I bet you are leading ice racing and the snowmobile championship

[glauistean]

Finland are out already? The Bolton goalkeeper is from Finland I believe. Jussi

Jääskeläinen? Most underrated 'keeper in the premier league. I she still

available for the national squad. Also Sami Hyypiä. He was a good player.

I'll have to look at the groups and see where they have fallen.

This European Championship is as hard to get into as the World Cup. Sheesh.

A question for the Brits. If they included all the "home countries" including ROI would you be for it?

There was a debate a few years back that England , Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not countries. Which they aren't in the true sense. But, it would be a great team.