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who decided England are favourites

Rio Ferdinand.

Hope he isn't involved in any coverage across bbc/itv think everyone needs the summer off. 

No summer off for him or a few others.


BBC


Presenters - Gary Lineker, Gabby Logan, Mark Chapman, Alex Scott

Commentators - Guy Mowbray, Robyn Cowen, Vicki Sparks, Steve Wilson, Steve Bauer, Jonathan Pearce (commentators), Jermaine Jenas, Danny Murphy, Martin Keown, James McFadden (co-commentators)

Pundits - Alan Shearer, Micah Richards, Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Joe Hart, Ellen White, Ashley Williams, Cesc Fabregas, David Moyes, Rachel Corsie, Thomas Frank, James McFadden

ITV

Presenters - Mark Pougatch, Laura Woods

Commentators - Sam Matterface, Clive Tyldesley, Seb Hutchinson, Pien Meulensteen, Joe Speight (commentators), Lee Dixon, Ally McCoist, Andros Townsend (co-commentators)

Pundits - Roy Keane, Graeme Souness, Ian Wright, Eni Aluko, Gary Neville, Karen Carney, Ange Postecoglou, Danny Rohl, Christina Unkel (refereeing analyst)

My god what a list.  Mute it is

[Huge police presence in the city today]

Yes I managed to get four tickets. Looking forward to it. Young lads second team is Leverkusen so he's happy. I know about 12 other people who applied and got nothing. Atmosphere should be good. Huge police presence in the city today.

The portal might be safe today then

If Toney goes, he goes for pens only.

No way Rashford should be at the euros. Maguire shouldn't either but there's a severe lack of defensive options for England.

Has Foden not been playing on the left wing? De Bruyne is their 10.

Not when kdb was out for long periods.

Grew up with Oasis on repeat. I now cant stand to listen to Wonderwall.  I near put it as their worst song.

They have some crackers though. My 3...

Cigarettes and Alcohol
Supersonic
Some might say

I really could pick another 3 that I like equally as much.

Poch probably has had enough working with those immature players and that awful ownership. Plus it seems like they are poised to sell the likes of Gallagher who was one of the few players displaying any leadership. 

Always good to have a tournament on in the summer for a few weeks.England pre tournament favourites but think they have issues at centre half and left back which will winder their progress.Germans on home soil and France should be difficult to beat.

I looked at that England squad annouced yesterday and I just thought, I dont see the favourites tag here.  Yes they have some very talented players in the likes of Kane, Foden, Bellingham and even Rice but we all know that they will be set up poorly for a start.  Foden has been Pl player of the year playing in the 10. Bellingham has been playing 10 too. What does Southgate do there... foden to the wing or Bellingham back to being an 8.

Their defence looks poor and will struggle against good attacking units. France would surely be ahead of them.

Very interested to see how Germany go.

Minor Semi finals results yesterday

Donegal  1-7 Armagh 2-8
Derry 2-14 Tyrone 1-10

Final May 26th at 1pm in Healy Park

Great to have an Armagh underage team reach the Ulster final. It seems like it has been a long time. O'Rourke has done a very good job with these lads. All the best to them.

Making a fortune to fulfil a home grown quota is that correct? unreal.

Wonder how many of them titles city lose in the boardroom?

Is this ever gonna be concluded?

I saw a snap of the run to the finish line from Arsenal and it was pretty impressive too.  The loss to Villa at home was a killer blow, while the city juggernaut rolled on.

How their second goal yesterday still stood considering there was a blatant handball in the immediate build up to it, is staggering from the referee in particular who was asked to go look at it by VAR, but his balls disappeared up inside him and chose to ignore what was right in front of his eyes.

Those type of rules only apply to the smaller clubs.

I had the match on the radio while I painted the fence

The commentary were absolutely raging that it even went to a pitch side check as they said that the "goal scorer didnt handle it, and as it was accidental he didnt seek to gain advantage"... If this is the case then I am totally lost as to the rules of the game now. 

I finished the Gentleman in Moscow there at the weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed it.  Ewan McGregor is excellent in it. Although it is difficult to portray many of the details of the book, I thought they did an excellent job.

SF not doing so well in 26 county election poll, but then they did shite the last time and probably do not have as many sitting councillors.

Fine Gael 21%
Fianna Fail 20%
Sinn Féin 18%
Labour 6%
Green Party 5%
Social Democrats 3%
PBP - 2%
Aontú 1%.

Free starters just can't get enough of FF/FG, and why would they want a change after being spoiled for so long

It's the same all over.  The 2 parties look to get their go on the merry-go-round.  The Tories look to be on the way out and Tory Lite on the way in. It's the same in America.

'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

I saw a snap of the run to the finish line from Arsenal and it was pretty impressive too.  The loss to Villa at home was a killer blow, while the city juggernaut rolled on.