My Euro Rant

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   Much as I'm enjoying the tournament with the good matches far outweighing the bad, many things happening in this tournament are really pissing me off and they reflect the failings of UEFA/FIFA and players/Managers of today, so I'll list a few of my pet hates from Euro 2008.

1. Players feigning injury to get play stopped.  FFS this is now beyond a joke, 9 out of every 10 players that go down injured, then get up and run around immediately.  Refs or whoever's instructing them should book a player who does that.  Another simple solution would be to do like rugby, let the physio on the park while the ball is still in play and the game will continue.  That'd soon stop the cnuts feigning injury.

2. Standard of crossing is rubbish, apart from Italy in the 1st half v Romania.  Players getting into great positions and putting in a feeble cross that the 1st defender blocks, or lashing it 20 yards too long.  What are doing in training ffs?

3. The pulling and dragging in the box.  Howard Webb was the only ref to have the balls to give a peno.

4. So called French stars not trying a leg. Anelka v Romania, Henry tonight v Italy and turning his back on the free and poking out a token boot, serves him right it ended in the fckn net.  Only Benzema and to a lesser degree Toulalan had a go for France tonight.

5. The Fckn Ronaldo circus.  I've just been watching Sky Sports News with the Sky reporter quizzing the Great One about his future when he TOLD everyone last week he wouldn't discuss it till after the tournament.  The Sky Reporter then holds up a fckn LOLLIPOP that the Great One had been sucking.  A FOOKIN LOLLIPOP!!! Jaysus fckn wept, P*ss off.

Apart from the above, it's a tremendous tournament.  Roll on some cracking Quarter Finals later in the week! 