Bluewolf

What a stunning goal... real quality

Spain 2-0 France Netherlands 2-1 England

Congrats @Pyfish

Spain 2-1 Germany Portugal 1-2 France England 2-1 Switzerland Netherlands 2-0 Turkey

It will be Germany mate...

What a shame...

Can see Portugal going through now..

I said I can believe it... not sure how you were reading that..

Fuck me... never a better chance to win it

I can believe that

Is he crying already... Game isn't even over yet... jesus

Would like to see him miss this..

Slovenia's best chance and he fluffed it..

Debatable hand ball for me that...

It stuns me how some of these players still think they can get away with pulling shit like that hoping no one is going to notice..

Ronaldo with a chance to score on 7 minutes but decides to fuck me over instead...

Come on Slovenia...

It's about buying future talent and nurturing them over many seasons under many different managers so that in 8 years time after I have passed away we can win some silverware again...

They are calling him the 'Wonder Kid' and that's because in 5 years time after being loaned out multiple times to untold clubs and not working out as hoped everyone will be 'wondering' what the hell happened to him..

You are determined to ruin this thread @Beelzebub Anyway, let this be the last word on the matter, @nudge will probably like the last part of this... From the Belgian standpoint, the popularity of the term "french fries" is explained as "French gastronomic hegemony" into which the cuisine of Belgium was assimilated, because of a lack of understanding coupled with a shared language and geographic proximity of the countries.[38] The Belgian journalist Jo Gérard [fr] claimed that a 1781 family manuscript recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in the Meuse valley, as a substitute for frying fish when the rivers were frozen.[29][35] Gérard never produced the manuscript that supports this claim, and "the historical value of this story is open to question".[42] In any case, it is unrelated to the later history of the french fry, as the potato did not arrive in the region until around 1735. In any case, given 18th-century economic conditions: "it is absolutely unthinkable that a peasant could have dedicated large quantities of fat for cooking potatoes. At most they were sautéed in a pan".[43]

Saint Spud..

The Belgians and French have an ongoing dispute about where fries were invented.[38] The Belgian food historian Pierre Leclercq has traced the history of the french fry and asserts that "it is clear that fries are of French origin".[39] They became an emblematic Parisian dish in the 19th century. Frédéric Krieger, a Bavarian musician, learned to cook fries at a roaster on rue Montmartre in Paris in 1842, and took the recipe to Belgium in 1844, where he created his business Fritz and sold "la pomme de terre frite à l'instar de Paris" 'Paris-style fried potatoes'.

Fries may have been invented in Spain, the first European country in which the potato appeared from the New World colonies.[34] Professor Paul Ilegems, curator of the Frietmuseum in Bruges, Belgium, believes that Saint Teresa of Ávila of Spain cooked the first french fries

What we will know for sure is if Germany somehow get through against Spain that corruption is still rife within the game..