Hutton's like Johnson, except he can tackle and defend :-)
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Iwelumo is ****ing ****e, he looks like when David James went up front for Man City that time.Comment
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world record for the longest game ever?Originally posted by red g View Post
at least 12 years by my reckoningComment
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We're pish and Levein's a clown. Tuesday will be a horrro show. Still I'll be in the same stadium as Pepe so that's ok
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I started watching it. Quickly realised we were playing a 4-6-0. Turned it off after 5 minutes.
No ****ing idea what Levein is playing at. I used to think he was decent. **** knows what he's doingComment
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I'll definitely be watching next week,actually wanted to be there supporting spain
but torres won't be there so it softens the blow as they say.
He'll play 10 men in the box against spain but they will still score about 3 against us.Comment
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I thought this would be an appropratie thread for this I reckon Iceland must be one of the smallest nations to reach the U-21 finals 
Scotland U21 1-2 Iceland U21 (2-4 on agg)
Gylfi Sigurdsson scored two marvellous goals for Iceland at Easter Road
By Keir Murray
Two stunning second-half goals by Gylfi Sigurdsson ended Billy Stark's young Scots' hopes of reaching the finals of the Under-21 European Championship.
Trailing 2-1 from the first leg of the play-off, Scotland hit the post after 15 minutes through Jamie Murphy.
But it was the impressive Sigurdsson who scored the opener with a confident curling finish from 20 yards.
Chris Maguire levelled immediately from the re-start from the halfway line before Sigurdsson rifled a second.
Manager Billy Stark had demanded an improved display after the defeat in Iceland on Thursday.
If the first 20 minutes were anything to go by, the Scots had paid heed to Stark's words.
They harried the athletic visitors, who were boasting eight full internationals, attacking them with an enthusiasm that was utterly absent from the senior team's display in Prague on Friday.
In the early action, Liverpool defender Danny Wilson was nudged off the ball as he waited to connect with a dropping ball eight yards out, but a penalty would have been harsh.
Aberdeen striker Maguire and Motherwell's Jamie Murphy looked slick and caused jitters in the Icelandic back line, yet it was not one-way traffic, as three shots reminded the Scots of the danger.
Rurik Gislason whipped one past Alan Martin's right-hand post from 25 yards, then Paul Hanlon managed to deflect an effort by star player Sigurdsson, a £7m signing by Hoffenheim, past the post after a surging run from his own half.
This was followed by a meaty thump by Coventry's Aron Gunnarsson, whose low effort was parried by Martin, probably the best the keeper could have done.
The best chances, however, fell to the Scots. Falkirk left-back Tam Scobbie launched a beautiful long pass from the edge of his box down the inside-left channel which had Murphy scarpering like a greyhound out of the traps.
Showing great balance and technique he jinked past the full-back and hit his shot off the post. The ball rebounded to Barry Bannan, who cracked a left-foot shot which Andres Johannesson dived to head off the line back to the Aston Villa winger, who knocked his overhead kick six inches past the post.
Bannan was teasing the Icelandic defence with his trickery down the left and looked a decent source for the goal that would take Scotland through on away goals.
His move to the opposite flank produced a chance for David Wotherspoon as his swift attack from right midfield and cross into the box found the Hibs midfielder, on home turf, alone at the far post.
Sadly for the home team, his ball across goal was hit too firmly for any team-mate to slide home.
Having witnessed the carnage caused by Bannan on the left wing, Hjortur Valgardsson decided the best way to stop him was to scythe him down, for which he was booked by Swedish referee Markus Strombergsson.
Wilson headed Bannan's resultant free-kick wide.
Iceland were the top scorers in the group stages, with 29 goals in eight games, and in the second period it was as if Scotland realised how fatal conceding a goal would be.
Bannan no longer offered the same threat and the Scots retreated.
In the 54th minute Maguire was presented with a chance on the left-hand side of the box but only a terrific saving challenge by Elfar Freyr Helgason prevented the Scots' number nine from testing Arnar Petursson.
Paul Coutts drove into the box and rifled a rising left-foot shot straight at Petursson, but minutes later Sigurdsson silenced the home crowd when he was given too much space to run at the defence, cut inside from the left and curled a delicious ball round Martin.
The Icelandic goalkeeper ran to the other half to join the celebrations and, incredibly, did not get back into his goal in time for the re-start.
Maguire was alert to Petursson's lapse and pinged a stunning shot over the horrified keeper's head and into the net to make it 3-2 to the visitors on aggregate with 15 minutes remaining. That was incredible to be fair
With the crowd roaring them on, the Scots pushed forward and were caught out with another wonderful goal by Sigurdsson, a rasping right-foot shot into the top corner from 25 yards, which end the play-off as a meaningful contest.
Stark sent on David Goodwillie for St Mirren's Stephen McGinn and David Templeton for Jamie Murphy but there was no way back - the Scots' admirable attempts to reach the finals in Denmark had come to nothing.
Scotland: Martin, Caddis, Wilson, Hanlon, Scobbie (Griffiths 83), Wotherspoon, Coutts, McGinn (Goodwillie 81), Bannan, Murphy (Templeton 86), Maguire.
Subs Not Used: Gallacher, Perry, Marr, Cairney.
Booked: Maguire, Templeton.
Goals: Maguire 75.
Iceland: Arnar Petursson, Valgardsson, Gunnarsson, Eggert Jonsson, Johannesson (Palsson 46), Gislason, Vidarsson, Helgason, Gudmundsson (Kristjansson 84), Sigthorsson (Finnbogason 46), Sigurdsson.
Subs Not Used: Oskar Petursson, Ormarsson, Bjarnason, Steindorsson.
Booked: Valgardsson, Eggert Jonsson.
Goals: Sigurdsson 74, 80.
Attendance: 12,320
Referee: Markus Strombergsson* The above is posted in my opinion. Feel free to disagree.Comment
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Both goals from Sigurdsson were absolute class.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
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I think he has two goals in four games for Hoffenheim, he will be a class player IMO, always improving and takes mean corners and freekicks. Another players to watch out for are Johann Berg of AZ Alkmaar and Aron Ingi who plays for Coventry, he is a beast of a player, I know a guy who used to coach him when he played handball and he was a physical phenomonon.* The above is posted in my opinion. Feel free to disagree.Comment
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Is Ingi his full name? They have a player called, I think, Gunnarsson, who scores some fantastic goals and looks a great prospect.Originally posted by The_weatherman View PostThanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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That's him, he will not play another season for Coventry, has a long throw like Delap. Victor Palson came on for the second half and did OK, I think he's among the younger players in this team, but he played at centre back.Originally posted by Shaggy View Post* The above is posted in my opinion. Feel free to disagree.Comment
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Originally posted by Neil Young View Post I know him as well, good guy. Lives in the big snowhouse around the corner.
* The above is posted in my opinion. Feel free to disagree.Comment
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