Group C Euro 2012 General Discussion

[SwanVsDalton]

Certain exit before a surprise turn around comeback and extended stay. I like those omens.

[Eminence Grise]

I see the squad is to spend a week at Montecatini, in Tuscany.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...ce-190160.html

We spent the first week of our honeymoon there 11 years ago. It sounded really nice in the brochure, an old spa town with natural heated springs etc. It turned out to be full of really old people on their last legs looking to be cured of rheumatism!

Does it work? Any chance we could dunk Paul McGrath in one of them springs?

[paul_oshea]

ya well Trap picked it, probably for those reasons Stutts!!

[Stuttgart88]

Does it work? Any chance we could dunk Paul McGrath in one of them springs?

Maybe it's the secret to Trap's endurance.

McGrath was on Goals on Sunday this week. What a gent / legend.

[paul_oshea]

I mentioned this on another thread, thinking the exact same. So humble and modest. When asked about the game against maldini he was just so refreshing, didnt big it up or anything, even when put to him about Baggio (who was european and world player of the year at the time) said he was one of the most difficult defenders he ever played against.

[shakermaker1982]

Baggio a defender eh Paul

They don't make players like McGrath anymore. How are his knees nowadays? I missed the show. Ledley King seems to be in the same boat, can hardly train etc and he cannot even have a kick about with his kids in the garden because of the pain.

[paul_oshea]

One of the most difficult defenders he ever played against?!

[paul_oshea]

Baggio a defender eh Paul

They don't make players like McGrath anymore. How are his knees nowadays? I missed the show. Ledley King seems to be in the same boat, can hardly train etc and he cannot even have a kick about with his kids in the garden because of the pain.

Well to be honest in the game against norwich he could hardly kick the ball either....Mcgraths performances were never effected right until the end, King doesn't seem to be where he once was. It all goes to show that Mcgrath reading of the game was just second to none, the part of his brain that worked so well and that split second quicker than anyone else, kinda like Messi(not comparing the genius obviously) was with him right till the end of his playing days, even when his body was well and truly past its best.

[shakermaker1982]

Sorry I thought you were quoting McGrath.

Yep spot on about his reading of the game. How many modern defenders can go into central midfield and be equally as effective. O'Shea and Ferdinand look like a fish out of water when Fergie tried them there.

[gastric]

The discussion re. the Euro squad gains momentum.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...m-3080201.html

[jbyrne]

I see the squad is to spend a week at Montecatini, in Tuscany.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...314681410.html

[geysir]

I wonder should we read much into the omens from that North Korean effort to launch a satellite, re our Euro campaign?

[Crosby87]

Satellite?

[paul_oshea]

rocket?

[Junior]

I see the squad is to spend a week at Montecatini, in Tuscany.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/s...ce-190160.html

We spent the first week of our honeymoon there 11 years ago. It sounded really nice in the brochure, an old spa town with natural heated springs etc. It turned out to be full of really old people on their last legs looking to be cured of rheumatism!

We went into town for dinner at 8pm one night and it was like a ghost town. We complained to the holiday rep but she said tough luck. The next night we were driving back from rural Tuscany, hit Montecatini at midnight and the place was hopping. I guess we didn't cater for the continental way of enjoying the evenings.

Regardless, we thought it was a bit too boring for us and decided to go down to Amalfi for Part 2 a couple of days early. We checked out of our hotel, the manager of which took offence thinking it must be because we thought his hotel was cr@p. Anyway, on way to the airport my new bride got a migraine so we had to go back to the hotel and ask if we could have our room back. That's what I know of Montecatini!

Ah so kind of like Big Jack and Frank Stapleton at Italy 90. For the avoidance of doubt Stutts, you play the part of Frank in this scenario....bitching and whining and moaning about poor old Montecatini resulting in Jack (played by your new bride) telling you to shut the f**k up and bring her somewhere she can be alone.

[geysir]

Satellite?

'North Korea admitted its much hyped long-range rocket failed to deliver a satellite into orbit today'

Okay, launch a rocket to deliver a satellite, hows that?

[geysir]

Ah so kind of like Big Jack and Frank Stapleton at Italy 90. For the avoidance of doubt Stutts, you play the part of Frank in this scenario....bitching and whining and moaning about poor old Montecatini resulting in Jack (played by your new bride) telling you to shut the f**k up and bring her somewhere she can be alone.

Did it not strike you as a deeply sad story, that a new bride half way through her honeymoon in romantic Tuscany, had to resort to the migraine excuse?

[Stuttgart88]

I was fine. I got a day by myself to just potter around. Little did I know how much I'd appreciate time by myself in later years.

I deny any similarity to Frank the Plank. Not a dissenting word passed my lips. I'm not sure Mrs Stutts will appreciate the Big Jack likeness either. I might neglect to tell her about that.

[Junior]

In fairness, as you are still on the scene Stutts - I guess thats where the likeness to Jack and Mrs Stutts ends. Otherwise I guess you would have been kicked in to touch on flight home.....

[tetsujin1979]

Giuseppe Rossi out for six months after knee surgery: http://www.villarrealcf.es/es/notici...-meses-de-baja