After being 2-1 down I will admit that I'm particularly surprised. Still reckon the result flatters England, they were only slightly better than a poor Sweden side but at least we've beaten them at last.

Tuesday's game still has plenty of potential to go wrong, and I don't think we can rely on Sweden to beat France by the required margin.

We need to start playing better, we might have won this but we need to do better against the likes of Spain and Germany.

Ibrahimovic isn't laughing now, that'll teach him to bad mouth our goalie!

Not convincing at all Brun I agree....but that said a wins a win and I'll take it anyday. Commiserations to Sweden, but thats how it goes and rather them than us. Oh the joys of being an England fan, never a fecking dull moment! Andy Carrols header was a blinder (great ball by Gerrard too), welbecks impromptu finish was sublime.

What did concern me was the physical weakness at times in contesting the ball with a lot of players (Ashley young in particular who was sh*te), getting knocked off the ball far too much in 50/50's, like 7 stone weaklings! At least Carroll was providing the brick sh*thouse Geordie aggro anyway hehe, parker and Terry usually battle and Gerrard too. Theo Walcott was a great substitution, game changing really with a great turn of pace and very dangerous; especially when defenders are tiring (think he fluked a little with that goal though lol).

On the Swedish side Mellberg played well, always rated him at Villa and he had a great game with some fine crucial tackles too, never mind the goals.

@Vertigo, Spain are the clear favourites....they will go down as one of the all time great sides, World cup and Euro winners already. They are scarily good.

A typical England game where they just have to put us through the mill.

Hehehe, aye....tis traditional and par for the course.

Great game England, and Welbeck with the classy goal... loved the crap talking between Joe Hart and Ibrahimovitc

Euro 2012 Hottest Girl?

http://photos.euro2012girls.com/pictures/natalia-siwiec-euro-2012_02.jpg

http://www.totalprosports.com/2012/06/15/natalia-siwiec-poland-sexy-euro-2012-fan/

I suppose I will bite the bullet and say "congratulations England" pretty good game and seems they will make the cut,good stuff.
Long road to the final tho,but you never know.
Mick.

There you go, see it wasn't that painfull was it!

If you like them hanging to the waist DE, then go for it.

Now this young lass

Nah not really painful but I can't see myself making a habit out of it.Lol.
But credit where credit's due.

very pretty ...by the way , I love the hand in the hair, that's what do women spontaneously when they are in a situation of seduction.That's what they do when you look at them in the street, or in their car in the opposite lane in a traffic jam .

Now back to Football/Soccer, necessity for this group D to get out with the first place to avoid the pain of Spain in quarterfinale!

Wow,

only 10 minutes to go and if the results stay as they are, Poland and Russia are out. My bet was on those two teams.

Double Ouch!

Russia out, Poland out.

What a surprise!

Russia out and greece in. Real surprise.

If all goes as planned greece in the quarter finals

Instead of predicting results for a betting pool I better use a dice next time...Russia and Poland out, Greece and Czechya through.

Let`s hope nothing unpredictable will happen tomorrow...

Didn't see the matches today but I'm very surprised that Greece is going through to the quarter finals in stead of Russia. The Russians were doing quite well.



I expect Germany to win against Denmark. We are counting on you, neighbours Should there be a surprise, it'll be the Netherlands beating Portugal with two goals difference, meaning we go through. Would be a nice revenge for the Battle of Nuremburg

Jaz

Greece should not be that big a surprise, they won the European Championship in 2004 so they most definately have potential.

Russia played boringly. They tried the same single attack type all the time, and failed utterly.

How does it work? Both Greece & Russia have 4 points each, and Russia has a better goal difference. But they are eliminated while Greece goes through?