General Chat Thread 2 (Canada, USA, most, raining)

[B87]

Originally Posted by Warszawa

And one of the most boring teams Europe has ever seen wins

At least it wasn't France!

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by B87

At least it wasn't France!

What's wrong with France?

[Dean York]

Well happy Portugal won. Ronaldo deserves it for what he has done for that team. I really expected France to win fairly comfortably though.

[irlinit]

I wanted France to win.. Portugal are the worst team apart from Greece 04 to win probably

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Portugal scraped by the entire tournament, won only one match but still came out on top.. bizarre. I was rooting for a French victory.

Guess it goes to show that the winner doesn't need to be good, just lucky.

[Rozenn]

With all the cars honking outside, you'd think France has won.

Originally Posted by B87

At least it wasn't France!

Jealous of Paris' 31°C high today?

[irlinit]

I don't know why anybody would support Portugal, especially English people here!

Portugal won just 1 game all tournament, were boring to watch, have a cry baby superstar in their team, are known for their foul play and dirty players (Pepe, etc) (which helped to get us knocked out in the WC in 2006)

France have a nice young team, mostly likeable players and played some good stuff, plus if any country needs a lift it is them!


Guess who was the last team to beat both Portugal and France? England Oh and also Germany and Wales before the semi finals too. Shame we suck at tournament football! I really think it 24 teams made this tournament pretty boring to watch

[Rozenn]

I guess people were rooting for Portugl because:

Originally Posted by Guajara

This Euro Cup is rigged as hell.
No Punishment for Fouls made by French players.

[Dean York]

I supported Portugal, purely because I wanted to see one of the greatest players of all time, and the man that has pretty much single handedly carried his team throughout this tournament, win his countries first ever trophy. It's the pinnacle of his career.
The French side will get better and challenge again, whereas this was Portugal's big chance.
People might moan about the dirty okay from Portugal, and other things that'd happened in previous tournaments, but none of that even comes close to what happened to ROI a few years back in Paris.

[Dean York]

Also, I see the French have decided to make the most of the warm weather in Paris, and have themselves a riot to cheer themselves up. Setting cars and scooters on fire is one way to lift morale I guess.