Euro 2012

[Plubby]

You're fired.

[The Quasi Juice]

First of all, CAN'T WAIT FOR TONIGHT!!!

Secondly, the UEFA surely knew beforehand there's a lot of racism in these two countries, yet they chose them anyway. So they obviously don't give a shit and are just out for the money. I hope we won't see matches being cancelled.

[Summers]

Whereas I hope we do see matches cancelled if players are subject to racist abuse.

[METALMAN]

let's just ignore the racism and hope it will go away

[Summers]

stop crying blackies! go kick ball!

[GA!]

stop crying blackies! go kick ball!

Said John Terry.

[Liam]

Poland coach Franciszek Smuda is continuing his hardline stance on refusing to let players drink alcohol during the Euro 2012. He says: "If I gave players the impression that I'm a pushover, jelly or pudding, we would be done for. You can't show that."

Brilliant.

[Colly]

Polish Ian Holloway?

And thats 'Polish' the nationality, not 'polish' the cleaning verb.

[Plubby]

Sent my form in for the predictor game. I think. :/

[METALMAN]

he does need to keep his baldy head looking shiny

[stokeriño]

Toxic jerseys

In June 2012, the BEUC, Europe's consumer watchdog, issued a warning about chemicals found in football jerseys produced by Adidas, Nike, and Puma.[134] The BEUC expressed the most concern about Polish jerseys, saying they should be banned because they were found to contain organotin, which is toxic to the nervous system.[134] Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Russian, French, and Italian jerseys were found to contain lead, Portuguese and Dutch jerseys contained nickel, and Spanish and Italian shirts also contained nonylphenol.[134]

RIP Colly and Stoker.

The shirt is awesome enough to be totally worth it.

UEFA continue to carve out the most unconvincing line ever on the Dutch squad's training incident, having previously said "no the chants had nothing to do with racism", they are now saying "yes there was racist chanting but we don't really know what to do about it".

[METALMAN]

Just as well. What if being racist is a salient part of the culture of the Poles and NUkrainian's culture? Trying to stop them being racist would be racist!

[Colly]

Sent my form in for the predictor game. I think. :/

Got it.

Oh, and my cheapo Russia effort is this 8 year old beauty so I think I'm safe:

Edited June 8, 2012 by Colly

[stokeriño]

"Should such behaviour happen at further training sessions, Uefa would evaluate the operational measures to be taken to protect players," Uefa said.

"Uefa has now been made aware that there were some isolated incidents of racist chanting that occurred at the open training session of the Dutch team yesterday in Krakow.

"Uefa has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to discriminatory behaviour and has given the power to referees to stop matches in case of any repeated racist behaviour."

Should such behaviour happen at further training sessions, Uefa would evaluate the operational measures to be taken

Uefa has a zero tolerance policy

lol k

[Plubby]

Sent my form in for the predictor game. I think. :/

Got it.

Is it incorrectly filled out? I would have said "wrong" but I know it's inaccurate

[Colly]

Sent my form in for the predictor game. I think. :/

Got it.

Is it incorrectly filled out? I would have said "wrong" but I know it's inaccurate

Seems to be, though I'm not checking for score typos. I did check my own though since I'd put Ukraine to beat France 3-0...

[Plubby]

Yeah I nearly did that a couple times.

[stokeriño]

Sent my form in for the predictor game. I think. :/

Got it.

Oh, and my cheapo Russia effort is this 8 year old beauty so I think I'm safe:

Pfft.

Bask in the glory!

[supergrass]

Very dainty waist on that shirt, don't sit down in it.

[Baddar]

I was just checking out the shirts for the tournament - none really stand out to me. I quite like the Spain away one though.

As for the home shirts, I'd probably say Germany's is my favourite. Holland's is okay, but they've had better in previous years.