European men kicking ball in France

snowflake · Jun 10, 2016

Men’s European football championships starts in two hours.

Will France win? Or Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Austria? What do I know; not following men’s that much. Excited to watch some matches though :thumbsup:

GO Sweden and Iceland :yes2:

CaroLiza_fan · Jun 10, 2016

Finally! I was waiting for a Euro 2016 thread to start, because I wanted to post the following, and felt that it would be better in a dedicated thread than the "How cool is this?" thread.

Recently, it has become very noticeable that the England football team do not have an official song for Euro 2016. And in a story on the BBC website a few days ago, comedian David Baddiel correctly pointed out why - the Euro 96 song was so good that it has not been able to be matched, and nobody is even trying anymore.

"Three Lions" by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and The Lightning Seeds

Over here in Northern Ireland, we were in a similar position. In 2005, we had an official song that was so good that nobody tried to better it in the years since:

"We're Not Brazil We're Northern Ireland" by Jackie Fullerton, George Jones and Clubsound.

...until now!

This is the official Euro 2016 song for the Northern Ireland football team:

"Making Our Way To Paris" by The London Green And White Army

It is absolutely brilliant!!!

Put it like this, if you like a certain well-known song by the band Smokie, you'll love this! :agree:

The Northern Ireland campaign kicks off on Sunday, and two guys I went to school with are in the team (Aaron Hughes and Stuart Dallas).

So, all the best guys!!! Go and do "Our Wee Country" proud!!!

CaroLiza_fan

cathlen · Jun 10, 2016

Cl_fan, only one of us will be happy on Sunday

I will root for the other Ireland though! And Italy

Winnie_20 · Jun 10, 2016

I don't know who to root for. All I know is that I do NOT want to root for Belgium, because that's so ridiculously predictable and boring as a Dutchie, and I hate being predictable and boring. (It's also why I don't take something like the Eurovision song contest serious; the day Holland and Belgium don't vote for each other is the day I may actually bother watching again.)

So, some other country then. Germany would be the logical option for me (I live a few minutes from Germany), but I don't feel any more connected with Germany than I do with Belgium, so... rooting for them would only be purely be based on the fact that they were so good two years ago. Then again, we weren't that bad, either, with a third place, and look where we are now... :laugh:

TMC · Jun 10, 2016

Ugh this opening ceremony is so awful...but then everything is after London 2012.

My husband is hating on David Guetta so much :laugh:

TMC · Jun 10, 2016

I'm rooting for France; I take part in a wager organised by a friend every championship (I even won in 2008!) and I picked France to win in a moment of madness. So I'll have to support them. I wish I'd had more faith in England now, though.

snowflake · Jun 10, 2016

CaroLiza_fan said:
Finally! I was waiting for a Euro 2016 thread to start

This is the official Euro 2016 song for the Northern Ireland football team:

"Making Our Way To Paris" by The London Green And White Army

It is absolutely brilliant!!!

Put it like this, if you like a certain well-known song by the band Smokie, you'll love this! :agree:

The Northern Ireland campaign kicks off on Sunday, and two guys I went to school with are in the team (Aaron Hughes and Stuart Dallas).

So, all the best guys!!! Go and do "Our Wee Country" proud!!!

CaroLiza_fan

So why didn’t you start it? :biggrin:

Fun song

And, amazing that Wales, England and Northern Ireland are all in. Great Britain has a lot of great football players.

Ares · Jun 10, 2016

All I know that Polish team will flop

There's no excuse for not getting through their group matches at least. We have on paper the strongest team since the 80s with lots of stars but I am not getting my hopes up.

CaroLiza_fan · Jun 10, 2016

cathlen said:
Cl_fan, only one of us will be happy on Sunday

I will root for the other Ireland though! And Italy

Don't worry, there's no danger of us falling out over this.

I'm not actually interested in Men's football, so I'm not going to be paying much attention to this tournament. The only football I will be watching this weekend is last month's Women's FA Cup Final. I was at a motorbike race the day it was on, and I completely forgot about it until yesterday. So, since it expires from BBC iPlayer on Monday, watching it is a priority.

Since Euro 2016 will be taking over the TV for the next month or so, I'm going to take the opportunity to catch up on other things, like updating Fan Fests and watching the TCC.

I just posted here because I absolutely love the song "Making Our Way To Paris", and wanted to share it with you all.

But, there again, it is hardly surprising that I like it so much since I absolutely love the original song!

TMC said:
Ugh this opening ceremony is so awful...but then everything is after London 2012.

Funny you should say that, because I never watched either of the London 2012 Ceremonies. Apart from the Women's football, I don't bother with the Summer Olympics.

When it comes to ceremonies, the ones I use as a yardstick are the Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony, and the Vancouver 2010 Closing Ceremony.

CaroLiza_fan

TMC · Jun 10, 2016

I think you'd enjoy the London ceremonies...I love a good opening ceremony, the closing ceremony is usually just an afterthought. But even the London 2012 closing ceremony was better than any opening ceremony I've ever seen. Sochi was really good, too.

CaroLiza_fan · Jun 10, 2016

snowflake said:
So why didn’t you start it? Fun song

And, amazing that Wales, England and Northern Ireland are all in. Great Britain has a lot of great football players.

As I said in the comment I just posted, I'm not interested in Men's football. So I thought it would be hypocritical for me to be the Original Poster for a thread on a football tournament.

But, thank you for appreciating the song. Although it is fun, it is still a very credible song. And it is hard for a song to hit both of those targets.

Yes, it is amazing that 4 of the teams from the British Isles qualified (the Republic of Ireland being the other). But, I do feel sorry for Scotland that they missed out.

CaroLiza_fan

TMC · Jun 10, 2016

Ares said:
All I know that Polish team will flop There's no excuse for not getting through their group matches at least. We have on paper the strongest team since the 80s with lots of stars but I am not getting my hopes up.

It's okay, they won't come last anyway. Sweden will :biggrin:

CaroLiza_fan · Jun 10, 2016

TMC said:
It's okay, they won't come last anyway. Sweden will

But, at least you have a very good Women's team.

CaroLiza_fan

snowflake · Jun 10, 2016

TMC said:
It's okay, they won't come last anyway. Sweden will

Haha, we'll see :yes:

France-Romania 2-1 - Payet.

snowflake · Jun 10, 2016

CaroLiza_fan said:
As I said in the comment I just posted, I'm not interested in Men's football. So I thought it would be hypocritical for me to be the Original Poster for a thread on a football tournament.
CaroLiza_fan

All right then. I also prefere watching women's football. But are you sure you won't get caught if Northern Ireland advances?

CaroLiza_fan · Jun 11, 2016

snowflake said:
All right then. I also prefere watching women's football. But are you sure you won't get caught if Northern Ireland advances?

Nah. I'm not like that. If I hear how they are getting on on the news, then that's more than enough. But I won't be going out of my way to find out what's going on. Like, I don't even know who won the last few Men's World Cups!

But I could tell you all about the last few Women's World Cups!

And good to hear somebody else who prefers Women's football. The Women's game is what the Men's game should be like. And what the Men's game was like before money ruined it.

Playing honestly.
No amateur dramatics.
No playing dirty.
No diving.
The players don't have an overinflated sense of importance.

Of course, there are some exceptions. But not many.

Unlike the men, the women are not getting paid rediculous amounts of money. In fact, many aren't getting paid at all. These girls are playing because they want to. Because they enjoy playing the game. And it shows.

The only thing that could do with improvement is the standard of refereeing. There are some referees in the Women's game that are exceptionally good (Bibiana Steinhaus comes to mind), but a lot are quite poor.

CaroLiza_fan

Snow63 · Jun 11, 2016

So happy it started! And so many fans here :biggrin:

Rooting for Spain (and secretly for Russia), but I'm pretty sure that Germany will steamroll its way to the top!

Marta25 · Jun 11, 2016

I`m rooting for Italy! Although I`m already happy if they survive the first round. :biggrin:

TMC · Jun 11, 2016

What a brilliant opening match last night! Great playing from both teams, and very evenly matched. Romania was surprisingly good! And kudos to the ref for giving them that penalty, that took guts. What does everybody think, was that first goal legit or not?

Really looking forward to England and Russia tonight.

LRK · Jun 11, 2016

I'm watching. Every two years I do this (for Worlds' & Euros). First I go through the "Oh, no! Do I really want to watch? This will take up so much time!"-stage. And then I get to the begrudging "Oh, fine! I'll watch then! It's tradition after all... "-stage. And then I get truly bitten by the bug. That hasn't quite happened yet, but yesterday was a good start.

I'm cheering for Spain, of course - but not having followed any football for two years, I've no idea what state they are in.

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