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Euro 2016 Quarter-Finals France v Iceland Open Thread

by Randinho|  July 3, 20163:02 pm| 42 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    July 3, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    Who is Island?

  2. 2.

    Randinho

    July 3, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    @Baud: Iceland in Icelandic.

  3. 3.

    Randinho

    July 3, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    Note the acute accent on the letter I.

  4. 4.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    Back to the Island / Leon Russell

    Now the day is gone and I sit alone and think of you, girl
    What can I do without you in my life?
    I guess that our guessing game just had to end that way
    The hardest one to lose of all the games we played

  5. 5.

    Baud

    July 3, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    @Randinho: Thank you.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 3, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    @Randinho:

    Note the acute accent on the letter I.

    It’s there in your text, but not in the (much more prominent) thread title.

  7. 7.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    Rut Ro!

  8. 8.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    Note the acute accent on Giroud’s opening goal

  9. 9.

    Randinho

    July 3, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Oops! Thanks, fixed!

  10. 10.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Ruining my catchy comment!

  11. 11.

    Randinho

    July 3, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    @BillCinSD: Remnds me of an old joke:

    A couple are on their honeymoon and the wife complains of chest pains. They rush to the emergency room and after about half an hour, the doctor comes out to speak to the husband.

    “Sir, it appears that your wife has acute angina.”

    The husband chuckles and says “Yeah, she sure does, doesn’t she!”

    [RIM SHOT]

    Thank you! I’m here all week. Try the brisket and don’t forget to tip your servers.

  12. 12.

    Randinho

    July 3, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    It’s about 11:59 p.m. for Cinderella.

  13. 13.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    Pogba gets the header. Underdog is turning into Ol’ Yeller

  14. 14.

    humboldtblue

    July 3, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    I can’t say I am surprised. France are fucking good and they are loaded. Asgarth and the maidens of the volcanoes can’t stem this rising French tide.

  15. 15.

    J.

    July 3, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    Not looking good for the Icelanders. :-(

  16. 16.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    @humboldtblue: This was my excuse to do NOTHING this afternoon!

  17. 17.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    Jesus that dude is BIG!

  18. 18.

    humboldtblue

    July 3, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    @raven: Well, this way if I doze off and nap I won’t have missed much.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 3, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    @raven:

    Your catchy comments can never be ruined!

  20. 20.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    @humboldtblue: I napped before this tilt! My wife went to some dumbass outdoor concert at the Bot Gardens!

  21. 21.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    @raven: you need an excuse?

  22. 22.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    @BillCinSD: When you have a pack mule (at least she works like one!) for a bride you get shamed into it!

  23. 23.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    and Payet, The Vikings are heading out to sea on their funeral pyre boat. Like the end of Eulogy

  24. 24.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    well shit

  25. 25.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    Griezman with the chip 4-0 and as Ian Darke says, “The Ice is Melting”

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    July 3, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    France 3-0 Iceland. As brave as they have been in this tournament, I’m starting to think this is as far as the Icelanders get.

  27. 27.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    @raven: looks like you’re going to have to do some work this afternoon or your lady wife will be sad, like the Icelanders

  28. 28.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    And there are two 13-1 baseball games on!

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    July 3, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    Curses! Beaten to it by other commenters. Making up a four-nil halftime deficit looks to be beyond even these brave Vikings.

  30. 30.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    @Amir Khalid: It certainly would be the game of the century. maybe any century, even the century of the Fruit Bat

  31. 31.

    ? Martin

    July 3, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    This is not an embarrassment for Iceland – they were always a longshot. It’s an embarrassment for England.

  32. 32.

    Onkel Fritze

    July 3, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    I’m about to throw my TV out of the window or attack it with a hammer or something, and not because Iceland is losing.

    I’m watching this at home on Colombian TV (RCN). They have two commentators and one of them likes the french names and loves to say ‘France’, but for some unfathomable reason (other than that he’s completely fucking stupid), he is doing it in a mock english accent. And not just once or twice, but All.The.Fucking.Time.

    Seriously, if you hear in the next couple of days that somebody blew up RCN TV, that won’t be because of the usual shit going on in this country, that’ll just be me.

  33. 33.

    Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enough to Be Andy K Again)

    July 3, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    @raven:

    Tigers just went up on the Rays with three in the top of the 8th. Watch Sportscenter for the run Kinsler scored from second on a fielder’s choice to 1B.

    And now Kinsler hits his 200th career HR to put the Tigers up 5-1 in the top of the ninth. Tiger Of the Year, even as well as Castellanos, Cabrera, V-Mart and Fullmer are playing.

  34. 34.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enough to Be Andy K Again): roger

  35. 35.

    raven

    July 3, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Yay, they break the Ice!

  36. 36.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Sigthorsson gets one back for the Gervin’s

  37. 37.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    and Giroud gets the brace 5-1

  38. 38.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 4:43 pm

    Eidur Gudjonnsson, the old war horse, also the King of Football, comes on for Icelad, and the Vikings get a second.

    Gudjonnsson’s first appearance for Iceland was as a sub for his father. This is probably his last appearance

  39. 39.

    BillCinSD

    July 3, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    and the whistle blows, 5-2 for France.

    The semifinal buildup will feature the bomb at the friiendly earlier this year, and the Schumacher assault on Battiston (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGq7VcaHoqo, very hard challenge). Battiston ended up in a coma

  40. 40.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    Iceland wins the second half. Nice to see ol’ Eidur one last time.

  41. 41.

    Tony J

    July 3, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    @? Martin:

    Losing 2-1 to this Iceland team wasn’t embarrassing. Losing in the pathetic, ineffectual, aimless, panic-stricken, leaderless, toothless and (did I mention) pathetic way we did was embarrassing.

    Very good French performance. That’s how you do your homework, Woy, you overpaid gobshite.

    Wales – Portugal, France-Germany. I would have bet on one of those match-ups being a semi-final, guess which one.

  42. 42.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    @BillCinSD:

    Not only was Toni not sent off, that was not even called a foul.

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