Most Unappetizing Fixture

[Satchmo Distel]

Poland's qualification makes this a sitter, I think: Poland v Austria. Hungary v Switzerland and Slovenia v Serbia may also be rather grim but at least there's a team in each pairing that you definitely want to lose, whereas Poland v Austria is perhaps more about not wanting either to sneak into the last 16 (with apologies to non-neutrals like Ursus) so the best outcome would be 0-0.

[ad hoc]

Bear in mind that Slovenia vs Serbia* was one of the best matches ever at the Euros in 2000

(*technically Slovenia vs Yugoslavia, but by that time basically it was Serbia)

[jameswba]

Austria look a good side to me. Not sure I'd nominate a game involving them at this point.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

England - Slovenia will almost certainly be one where Gareth rests the first XI (assuming they've got 4 points out of Serbia and Denmark), and will probably end 0-0 if that's similarly the only result the Slovenes need at that point. 24-team tournaments with 16 going through are demonstrably shit in the group phases.

[ad hoc]

England - Slovenia will almost certainly be one where Gareth rests the first XI (assuming they've got 4 points out of Serbia and Denmark)

Haha how quickly England fans forget how these things play out.

[Wouter D]

24-team tournaments with 16 going through are demonstrably shit in the group phases.

Earlier this year, both the final rounds of the group phases of AFCON and the AFC Asian Cup were excellent entertainment.

[G-Man]

I'm not holding out much hope that Turkey vs Georgia will be a fiesta of glittering football. But it's Turkey; you never know what you'll get.

Switzerland vs Hungary could be one of those games you are happy you have watched, but I don't expect it. Although I want Hungary to be destroyed so bad that their racist fans will all cry in unison. With only black players, plus a McTominay hat-trick, scoring the combined 17 goals against them. (You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.)

[Felicity, I guess so]

Haha how quickly England fans forget how these things play out.

Well, they've been rewriting history in the Sven thread, is that 3 world cups they shoulda coulda won now, or just the 2..?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Well, they've been rewriting history in the Sven thread, is that 3 world cups they shoulda coulda won now, or just the 2..?

Oh like you don't do that about Archie Gemill's consolation goal in 1978 after you'd failed to beat fucking Iran, or Alex Ferguson failing to tell a team in 1986 to just try to play some football for 89 minutes against 10-man Uruguay because you needed 2 points not 1.

[Duncan Gardner]

England - Slovenia.
24-team tournaments with 16 going through are demonstrably shit in the group phases.

With some exceptions

[Felicity, I guess so]

Oh like you don't do that about Archie Gemill's consolation goal in 1978 after you'd failed to beat fucking Iran, or Alex Ferguson failing to tell a team in 1986 to just try to play some football for 84 minutes against 10-man Uruguay because he didn't realise you needed 2 points not 1.

If you say so. If it were true, just look at the comparative levels of delusion

[Sean of the Shed]

Slovakia v Romania doesn't have much appeal.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

What the hell do you all have against Central Europeans?

[RobM]

Oh like you don't do that about Archie Gemill's consolation goal in 1978 after you'd failed to beat fucking Iran, or Alex Ferguson failing to tell a team in 1986 to just try to play some football for 84 minutes against 10-man Uruguay because he didn't realise you needed 2 points not 1.

Nah, us Scots realise where we're at as opposed to the delusion that overcomes certain folk in Engerland, like a Southern Belle getting the vapours, come a major tournament.

Gemmil's goal was different class as well, far better than the Barnes one in the Maracana that induces orgasms in 60 odd year old commentators.

[caja-dglh]

Hungary - Greece

[G-Man]

Hungary - Greece

The international friendlies thread is over there.

[ad hoc]

The international friendlies thread is over there.

In think (though I'm not really sure) that this was an attempt at punning unappetising with hungry and grease.

[Sean of the Shed]

Maybe Sweden - Greece then.

[lambers]

Before the name change quashed my dreams, I always wanted a world cup group of Sweden Turkey Chile Togo.

[Jah Womble]

Reminds me of my one of my early fantasy league names: 'Donaghy, Babb or Berger to Go'.

I've stopped using the painful puns these days.

[steviecowden]

Before the name change quashed my dreams, I always wanted a world cup group of Sweden Turkey Chile Togo.

forgive my thickness,but not getting it

[ad hoc]

forgive my thickness,but not getting it

At a guess Swede and Turkey Chilli* to go
(* chilli con carne, rather than the actual peppers)

[Sporting]

forgive my thickness,but not getting it

I'm thick too!

[Lang Spoon]

Oh like you don't do that about Archie Gemill's consolation goal in 1978 after you'd failed to beat fucking Iran, or Alex Ferguson failing to tell a team in 1986 to just try to play some football for 84 minutes against 10-man Uruguay because he didn't realise you needed 2 points not 1.

Is there any evidence at all for that shit about Ferguson? Playing football was hampered by the Uruguay team continually committing all assault. Im susrpised you dont follow that up by saying he was drunk.

[Lang Spoon]

Austria look a good side to me. Not sure I'd nominate a game involving them at this point.

Yeah fuck knows why Austria are deserving of this shade, they are pretty tasty.