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Croatia v Ireland Open Thread

by Randinho|  June 10, 20122:30 pm| 21 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    The previous game was pretty even I thought. So both manchego and parmiggiano.

  2. 2.

    mark

    June 10, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    seriously, i just can’t get into this footbol stuff unless its world cup and USA is still viable. Can’t you do something to make it more palatable somehow, Randinho? I want to appreciate the game, i swear i’m trying, but, its just so painful to me…

  3. 3.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 10, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    @mark:

    It certainly doesn’t help that damned near every team seems to play so damned tentatively in the first couple of games of the group phase.

    Woohoo! ROI ties it up!

  4. 4.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    June 10, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    Hate to be a bitch or anything like that, but can one of the other Front Pagers hang up a non-soccer open thread? I don’t want to talk between the soccer folk any more than I’m sure they don’t want to talk around me.

  5. 5.

    Mike E

    June 10, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Pronounced crow ott. Just sayin’.

  6. 6.

    burnspbesq

    June 10, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    For a country whose economy is in the shitter, the Irish fans have managed to turn out in force.

  7. 7.

    Mike E

    June 10, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @mark: Drink. Moar.

  8. 8.

    Doug

    June 10, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    Croatoan.

  9. 9.

    burnspbesq

    June 10, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    Corluka’s going to get booked if he keeps up the thuggery.

  10. 10.

    dedc79

    June 10, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    Guinness over Slivovitz

  11. 11.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 10, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Bloody hell, that gobshite Tommy Smyth is in the studio. Can’t they find some ice floe off the coast of Greenland to put him on?

  12. 12.

    Bill Murray

    June 10, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    @burnspbesq: but it’s all he’s got. You can’t take away his lepinje

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    June 10, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    … And the Irishmen are 3 – 1 down within five minutes of resuming play. Somehow I don’t fancy their chances today.

  14. 14.

    Tony J

    June 10, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    Two early second half goals from Croatia and Ireland have a mountain to climb. Looks like they’re going to go all out trying to get a goal or two back ASAP, what have they got to lose?

  15. 15.

    pseudonymous in nc

    June 10, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    Ireland are poor; hard to make a judgement on whether Croatia are good enough to give Spain or Italy a scare, given that they’ll need to do more than bang it up to two big head-the-balls.

  16. 16.

    Tony J

    June 10, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    OFFS! Ireland should have had a penalty then.

  17. 17.

    JenJen

    June 10, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    Between the two matches today, ESPN finally decided to address the violence from some Russia fans, as well as cover the controversial, troubling BBC Panorama profile of Ukraine-Poland as the UEFA choice to host these matches. US viewers can watch the 30-minute documentary “Stadiums of Hate” here.

    In other news, poor Ireland!

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    June 10, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    Uh-oh. Irish keeper Shay Given may have picked up an injury, says the BBC; toward the end of the match, he began leaving the goal kicks to a teammate.

  19. 19.

    Bill Murray

    June 10, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    @Amir Khalid: he had an injury coming in, I think, so it might be that getting worse

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    June 10, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    So after day one, Croatia leads the Group of Debt.

  21. 21.

    xyzxyzxyz

    June 10, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Ireland had to play more direct because they were eaten alive in the midfield. Luca Modric had an OK game and Croatia still owned the center. I think they can do the same to Italy….Spain and Croatia make it out of the group.

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