haha, true

I thought Croatia were unlucky mind? Spain were no great shakes tonight!!

I was watching italy game like

were croatia better?

i see Bonkers Balotelli finally got a goal?

Mad as a hatter him!!!

haha great goal aswell, he was trying to yell at ref after and chellni covered his mouth and just basically told him to stfu

Yeah i saw that. like i said, barking mad!!

I think he was trying to yell at the Italian coach for not starting him..

Its looking like England may play the spanish in the q/f..

Spain is looking to avenge the Armada.

ah right! and haha, so maybe italy france? wow avenge for 06 final!

Not to mention they want Gibraltar back as well......

England would have a good change against Spain, they are not the same team they were two years ago. Seems like France and England will go through tonight?

As for my own team....too many ego's who really didn't care that a whole country was watching them, no team spirit, and a coach that didn't know what he wanted.

The result: zero points .

Chopper, whats the fall out like over there then with the fans and the media and such?? Angry of course but are they wanting rid of the manager?? It was only 2 years ago he took you to a World Cup Final??

Or are they angry with the palyers?

The manager still has a lot of respect over here Yogi, but with zero points it's probably over for him.

The people are mostly angry with the players, and the stories of the last weeks are now leaking to the media. Seems like there wasn't really a team, but a lot of fights and a lot of little ego's who didn't want to work together.

I've posted the picture before in this thread of van Persie making a phone call just seconds after we lost our first game, while still standing on the field. For me, that says it all.

Yes that was a shocking pic of RVP for sure!!

Internal problems have tore your teams apart before as well eh?? Its a shame cos a football crazy country like Holland needs to be in the later rounds of this tournament

It's a damn shame Yogi, but it's true we have a long history of infighting! But I'm still enjoying the tournament, great games and looking forward to the quarter finales.

Anything can happen, and if you guys can beat the Germans or Portugese on the way it will be greatly appreciated .

Come on England,hopefully we can get a better result than France and top the group.

Croatia is out, was so sad yesterday. Bloody referees.

England 1 : Ukraine 0
Rooney is back.

Sweden 1:0 France
Ibrahimovic - who else - scored.

Get in England,1-0 v Ukraine, top the group and a game in the q/f v Italy on Sunday. It wasn't great by England again but we seem to be getting results at the moment..

Bring on the Italians who i think are beatable..

It was Larsson blackvelvet so happy that sweden eventually won! they been very unlucky in this competition. congrats to england!

Great goal by Ibrahimovic also..

England - Italy and Spain - France looks interesting! Looking forward to that.

I'm predicting a Spain v Germany final again..

good call De Niro!

Well done England, we did the job and that was about it!!! I can see us scraping past the Italians and then going out to the Germans againg in the semis on a penalty shhot out!!!! Story of my life

Well done to England so far you have proved me wrong, for once we seem to be playing with heart and passion and I think that is down to Hogson who I have a lot of time for (did you know this guy speaks fluent Swedish?!). Gerrard has been immense so far as has Terry and Glen Johnson. One minor issue, I don't think Milner is up to it, lets drop him and get some pace on the flank.
The Italy game will be incredibly tight and nervy, one goal could win it for someone, for the love of god please no penalty shoot-out!

So where onto the q/f stage and my predictions are in bold who i think will go through..

Czech Rep. v Portugal Thu 21 Jun 19:45
Germany v Greece Fri 22 Jun 19:45
Spain v France Sat 23 Jun 19:45
England v Italy Sun 24 Jun 19:45

France to win? dont think so De Niro

I also think France might beat the Spanish and shock the world but i have a sneaky feel for Portugal in that side of the draw!!