On June 20 2012 06:00 Holgerius wrote: Getting really pumped for Italy vs England (english football fans are probably the ones I've had the most disputes with :D).
Italy haven't looked all that good, but you can simply NEVER count them out once they've reached the knock-out stages.
Italy looked better than England imo, it will be an interesting game.
The German fans fear Italy much more than England, that's for sure.
On June 20 2012 06:00 Holgerius wrote: Getting really pumped for Italy vs England (english football fans are probably the ones I've had the most disputes with :D).
Italy haven't looked all that good, but you can simply NEVER count them out once they've reached the knock-out stages.
Italy looked better than England imo, it will be an interesting game.
The German fans fear Italy much more than England, that's for sure.
They may fear Italy more, but they certainly fear losing against England more. (English media ftw^^)
On June 20 2012 06:00 Holgerius wrote: Getting really pumped for Italy vs England (english football fans are probably the ones I've had the most disputes with :D).
Italy haven't looked all that good, but you can simply NEVER count them out once they've reached the knock-out stages.
Italy looked better than England imo, it will be an interesting game.
The German fans fear Italy much more than England, that's for sure.
Oh yeah, im scared as hell of italy.. all my hopes lie on england, which will be an amazing rematch from the wc - if italy gets past england i think they will win the hole thing. tbh italy has the best chance against spain anyway.
But the drawing is so good, 3 amazing matches ( greece vs ger with all the background, i read on spox even merkel will show up - thats going to be so intense oh my god, im pumped ! ), only portugal vs czech without rosicky looks not that interesting on paper - but it makes me very happy every time cech has to get the ball out of the net.
Man, when was the last time England and Italy met in either WC or Euro? Interesting and rare match up. Only rarer matchup between European powers that I can think of is Italy vs Portugal.
On June 20 2012 06:00 Holgerius wrote: Getting really pumped for Italy vs England (english football fans are probably the ones I've had the most disputes with :D).
Italy haven't looked all that good, but you can simply NEVER count them out once they've reached the knock-out stages.
Italy looked better than England imo, it will be an interesting game.
The German fans fear Italy much more than England, that's for sure.
They may fear Italy more, but they certainly fear losing against England more. (English media ftw^^)
Haha so true about our media! They still cling on to our 5-1 victory which was in 2001! Embarrassing.
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
I really don't want to generalize this, but imo Germans have always been kind of poor fans. It's just something I have noticed in the Bayern CL matches. Especially if they were behind...
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
I really don't want to generalize this, but imo Germans have always been kind of poor fans. It's just something I have noticed in the Bayern CL matches. Especially if they were behind...
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
I really don't want to generalize this, but imo Germans have always been kind of poor fans. It's just something I have noticed in the Bayern CL matches. Especially if they were behind...
good thing you don't want do generalize bc its utter bs.
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
Pretty sure everyone read it, didnt think it credited any response, but if its so important to you, I dont know about todays game but generally the atmosphere has been fantastic.
I'd rather hear nothing than Vuvuzelas personally. That aside
I think the noise in some games has been off the charts. Ireland being the foremost example And theres always been some kind of singing going on. Maybe not for 90 mins but the noise has been there. At times crowds have gone relatively quiet but I think the atmosphere from what one can judge from television has been very good.
The only ones who can actually make a reasonable estimate are the people who have actually gone to the stadiums.
Germany-Portugal was kind of poor in terms of atmosphere. You did not hear a single sound from the Portugal side and the German side was kinda quiet too until the goal.
Ukraine-Sweden was amazing. Ukraine is not a football country at all so pretty much all they sing is U-KRA-INA. But it was sooooo loud and the entire stadium of 66k all in yellow was great.
Germany-Netherlands was unusual. Almost zero support form the Netherland side which is really unusual I think. The only time you ever heard them was just after the 1-2. German side was awesome, 90 minutes non stop support.
And that was all in Ukraine I am 100% sure in Poland everything is way way better as they are actually excited about the EURO.
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
I really don't want to generalize this, but imo Germans have always been kind of poor fans. It's just something I have noticed in the Bayern CL matches. Especially if they were behind...
On June 23 2012 05:33 [DUF]MethodMan wrote: so just something pretty much unrelated to the game itself. i noticed how the atmosphere at this tournament so far has been really bad, even compared to south africa, where you could only hear vuvuzelas, but at least you heard sth. this cups games for the most part have been real quiet. even today, where i can imagine there being tons of german fans, since gdansk is relatively close to germany. only after the 4-1 people started constantly singing, its sth im not used to, because its pretty much mandatory to sing all the time, or just make any kind of noise, to support your own team, most importantly when theyre playing bad or falling behind. anybody else feeling the same, or is it just me?
quoted from the germany vs greece lr thread, since probably nobody read it there
I really don't want to generalize this, but imo Germans have always been kind of poor fans. It's just something I have noticed in the Bayern CL matches. Especially if they were behind...
Bayern fans are a special type of German fans.
yes bayern fans are the coolest.
They aren't even the coolest football fans in Munich. Unless you consider a fanbase consisting of 90% plastic bandwagon fans and glory hunters cool. :p
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