Van der MoodHoover Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, David said: No DVD though! VHS in those days... Dvd didn't exist. There was plenty of them of which here's one.... World Cup heroes no less.... ? Comrade 86, RadioactiveWaste and DarkFruitsRam7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said: VHS in those days... Dvd didn't exist. There was plenty of them of which here's one.... World Cup heroes no less.... ? Can’t be bringing VHS into this! Mucker1884 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Bit of a weird thing to do imo, there must be 101 other ways they could pay tribute? For arguments sake, what if its during a period of end to end football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie20 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 19 minutes ago, David said: No DVD though! Hardly surprising - it's that long ago they were still to be invented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 27 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said: Er...... Italia 90. Wasn't even London but blooming Luton! ? A mate of mine went to work there. Called it 'Wopsville', but then, he was a Scouser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 17 minutes ago, maxjam said: Bit of a weird thing to do imo, there must be 101 other ways they could pay tribute? For arguments sake, what if its during a period of end to end football? I can understand wanting to do something, but this seems a bit weird and odd. Rammy03 and Van der MoodHoover 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Italy very strong. But in this tournament the home advantage seems extremely pronounced. The point was made that while Italy have been in Rome, Switzerland had to travel out to Baku and back. That's a far bigger difference in travel than is normal in tournaments. The Swiss now have to go back to Baku. Seems very unfair. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammy03 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 26 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said: Italy very strong. But in this tournament the home advantage seems extremely pronounced. The point was made that while Italy have been in Rome, Switzerland had to travel out to Baku and back. That's a far bigger difference in travel than is normal in tournaments. The Swiss now have to go back to Baku. Seems very unfair. There is definitely more travel involved for some teams as usually the tournament is just hosted in one country. But there's always a team with home advantage. It's the team that is hosting the tournament. This time there are multiple host nations. It's not the be all and end all. Russia were playing at home and lost 3-0. Same for Hungary. Italy are a top team and so it's not out of the ordinary that they've won 3-0. I wouldn't say it's unfair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 32 minutes ago, Rammy03 said: There is definitely more travel involved for some teams as usually the tournament is just hosted in one country. But there's always a team with home advantage. It's the team that is hosting the tournament. This time there are multiple host nations. It's not the be all and end all. Russia were playing at home and lost 3-0. Same for Hungary. Italy are a top team and so it's not out of the ordinary that they've won 3-0. I wouldn't say it's unfair. They've just played a team who has just had a 4,000 mile round trip in 4 days. That's very different to a team rocking up in your country and setting up a base for the duration of the tournament, acclimatising etc I would say that confers a greater advantage than "just" being the home team. As it happens, it's not equal. England have home advantage but Croatia is not such a distance and Scotland will come down from playing in Glasgow so the effect is marginal. archram and RadioactiveWaste 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said: They've just played a team who has just had a 4,000 mile round trip in 4 days. That's very different to a team rocking up in your country and setting up a base for the duration of the tournament, acclimatising etc I would say that confers a greater advantage than "just" being the home team. As it happens, it's not equal. England have home advantage but Croatia is not such a distance and Scotland will come down from playing in Glasgow so the effect is marginal. Surely having host cities across countries is fine as long as they're within reason. A France, Spain Portugal tournament, a Balkans based tournament, a German and central Europe tournament? TuffLuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob The Badger Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 12 hours ago, maxjam said: Bit of a weird thing to do imo, there must be 101 other ways they could pay tribute? For arguments sake, what if its during a period of end to end football? Utterly ludicrous, send him some flowers and a box of milk tray. And make everybody sign one of those huge get well soon cards so that (hopefully) he can look at it in 30 years and wonder who the guy in the bottom right hand corner is and why one person added kisses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 36 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said: Utterly ludicrous, send him some flowers and a box of milk tray. And make everybody sign one of those huge get well soon cards so that (hopefully) he can look at it in 30 years and wonder who the guy in the bottom right hand corner is and why one person added kisses. Or why one random guy had written "Who's Christian?" across the middle (one on my little puns over the years) Mostyn6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksRam Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 12 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said: I can understand wanting to do something, but this seems a bit weird and odd. Can't wait to see if they have a penalty on 10 mins - go for goal, or touch? Weird one this. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Have they considered they might not even have the ball or are the Denmark team in on this and they will they get a time check and pass to them...............very strange! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 1 hour ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said: Have they considered they might not even have the ball or are the Denmark team in on this and they will they get a time check and pass to them...............very strange! In what way is a tribute him? Is it just a ‘here you go Denmark, in tribute to your fallen friend, well let you have the ball for a bit before we carry in battering you.’ if you’re going to do that, might as well go full bielsa and just let them score one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 I would imagine the ball will get thrown back to Denmark when it happens. Would also guess it’s because the ball went out of play just before he collapsed. If that’s how they want to do it and makes them feel better, fair play, not going to criticise them as it can’t be easy to play as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC Kicks Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 15 hours ago, maxjam said: Bit of a weird thing to do imo, there must be 101 other ways they could pay tribute? For arguments sake, what if its during a period of end to end football? Would Denmark actually want this? Denmark need to get something out of this game if the are to progress out the group stage. What if they start the game strongly and this disrupts their momentum? Surely there's another way to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuffLuff Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Maybe explains it all a little better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Well it's the big one this afternoon. Ukraine v North Macedonia. Difficult one to call, maybe because both languages are full of long words with no vowels.... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said: Well it's the big one this afternoon. Ukraine v North Macedonia. Difficult one to call, maybe because both languages are full of long words with no vowels.... ? I have a sneaky suspicion Ukraine will win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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