Posts Tagged ‘European Championships’
Eamon Keegan meets Croatia’s ministry of culture at the European Championships
AT the European Championships, Ireland fan Eamon Keegan explain how he came to be in this photo:
“We were all in Poznan, with all the Irish fans at the game and these two Croatian girls walked through and everyone started singing ‘Get your t*ts out for the lads’ and they actually did. We all started jumping into pictures with them and next thing, I don’t know… I had a few beers on the day but it was all a bit of craic, I didn’t think they’d end up on the internet!”
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Posted: 13th, June 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
England fans unfurl racist banner at European Championships? – photo
GET a load of this banned unfurled by England fans. The lads of ‘Godfordshire’ are taking on France. No, it’s not the European Champions of football – it’s the rugby World Cup. It’s not those unenlightened Slavs you’ve been reading about in the tabloids. It’s those awesome English gals.
Garlic is not a perfume – but prejudice can stink… (More.)
Posted: 12th, June 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Jingoism of the day at the European Championships: The Sun wants Steve Gerrard sacked
JINGOISM of the day at the European Championships: Sorry to have missed this gem in the Sun. Alert! Alert! Steve Howard reports:
The journalist asked Roy Hodgson and Steven Gerrard how it was possible for England to still call themselves a serious footballing nation when they have not won a major tournament since 1966. England skipper Gerrard then followed the historic example of the English archers at Agincourt who flicked a communal V-sign at their French counterparts on that famous day in 1415.
This was to show they still had the use of their bow-drawing index fingers — fingers the French normally cut off when they took prisoners.
Yeah.
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Glen Johnson forgets the pre-match photo – European Championships gif of the day
WHY did the official England pre-match photograph not feature Liverpool’s Glen Johnson? Our European Championships gif of the day explains all – he got carried away skipping:
