Now the dust's settled, I thought I'd give my 2 pennerth. They deserved all they got. It was like watching other teams against Barnsley under Struber, Denmark trying to play the ref, niggly fouls, shirt pulling. Then they complain about a clear penalty, when a stonewaller wasn't given for the foul on Kane? Bye, Dirty Denmark.
No dirtier than any other team at the Euros, ourselves included. Best team won, but it's weird to call Denmark out for being dirty imo.
Getting three subs lined up on the touch line. The ref stops play and then they delay the subs and do them two minutes later. If that wasn't time wasting I don't know what was?
They weren't subtle in the dark arts. I thought Connor Hourihane was their boss for a second. (Peterborough sending off).
How did they con him into thinking they were about to make a substitution that turned into a drinks break and tactics meeting? Did they use a Jedi mind trick?
I thought Denmark gave us a good old test and the game was a good preparation for what is to come on Sunday. Let’s hope our lads are quick learners
Because it was at the same time as a player being down injured. Said player was down injured, delaying the subs until he was dealt with, and essentially creating a mini drinks break. Hardly see that as a con and just smart game management. It's nothing compared to what the Italians will do if they're 1-0 up with 20 minutes to go. Also not sure how we can criticise other teams when we've got the master of winning free kicks in Harry Kane. Slam on the brakes, fall over, win a free kick. It's genius.
You're right. If we're 1-0 down after 70 minutes on Sunday, the ball will barely be in play for the next 20.
UEFA Referees Committee has announced Björn Kuipers as referee for Sunday's final. I hope he's up to the shenanigans of Italy. So far in the competition he's not refereed England or Italy.
Thought Poulsen was extremely lucky to avoid a booking. At least two occasions where he should have got one. The Kane penalty wasn't given because, rightly or wrongly, he'd been penalised for a foul while winning the ball in the first place.
So far in this tournament I've seen more "shenanigans" from England, to be fair! I never thought that I would say this, but I almost like this Italy team.
You mean like immobile going down as if poleaxed when he wasn't touched, then Lazarus like springing to life after the goal. Yeah right.
Well, I never said that the Italians don't cheat at all. Of course they do, but it'd be naive to claim that the English players don't. There is no team or player on this planet who never cheats - that's pretty much a fact! Immobile's trick was just kind of embarrassing, but I've previously had to witness players like Inzaghi, Totti, De Rossi, Grosso (etc etc) in the Italian team, so a one-off Immobile incident doesn't ruin the reputation of the whole team for me just yet.
Fresh from watching the Copa America final I can say that England, Italy, Denmark and all the European nations have a long way to go on the cheating scale. Messi spent the entire second half rolling around like his leg had been broken. Every single challenge ended up with someone clutching their leg only for the replay to show minimal contact. Bad tempered pushes were met with players on the floor clutching their face. A whole different level. What annoyed me most though, was that after a full match of that nonsense, in the dying minutes Neymar went on a run and contrary to what he'd been doing the rest of the match and his career he rode several bad challenges and stayed on his feet, desperate to get forward. When he eventually lost the ball the ref didn't blow for one of the previous fouls, thus confirming that you get nothing for trying to stay on your feet and cementing the behaviour of falling down. Infuriating.
