Anyone But Italy

[Er Liquidatore]

Call me a small, petty man, but Italy winning it would be simply awful, for all sorts of reasons. Not least because having them run out champs after ANOTHER match-fixing scandal would just be silly.

Who's with me?

[E10 Rifle]

Anyone But Italy

Me, as ever.

Though I have got them each way at 14-1

[DCI Harry Batt]

Anyone But Italy

I am on a promise if they win, so I can't join you I'm afraid, soz.

[Bruno]

Anyone But Italy

At least they haven't been diving a lot.

I don't think there's much danger of it, I expect Germany to beat them. If they do squeak by it'll likely be on penalties again, and they'll be half-dead easy pickings on Sunday.

[Bruno]

Anyone But Italy

It's weird, I rated the 2006 team and didn't rate this one, yet here they are again in the semis against Germany again.

[Er Liquidatore]

Anyone But Italy

I should really emphasise just how much this is motivated by me being a small, bitter man. I simply don't want my friends to be happy

[Bruno]

Anyone But Italy

Maybe this will raise your spirits:

ITA-GER Spanish Comment Awesome!!!

Never gets old.

[E10 Rifle]

Anyone But Italy

Being small and bitter is integral to being a football supporter. Run with it.

[Edie St Pierre]

Anyone But Italy

"You'd have bet your last Italian ice-cream on him scoring that, but you'd be left holding an empty cone"

[E10 Rifle]

Anyone But Italy

That would appear to imply that the person that's won the ice cream off of you would've scooped all the ice cream away and left the cone, which seems unlikely.

[Edie St Pierre]

Anyone But Italy

Isn't that exactly what used to happen in the old Cornetto advert though?

[E10 Rifle]

Anyone But Italy

Yeah but we don't see our Venetian thief's subsequent attempts to eat it. These ad gurus just don't think these things through

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Anyone But Italy

I don't mind who wins the tournament as long as it's not Italy, Portugal or Spain.

[N est à?]

Anyone But Italy

Though I have got them each way at 14-1

Come off it mate, they're not going to win 14-1.

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Anyone But Italy

P.S. Has anyone on OTF managed to move to a different country and not begun despising all the locals within about 20 minutes?

[ursus arctos]

Anyone But Italy

I've always found things that annoy me, but never developed true hatred for the people that have hosted me on my travels.

2006 was actually a lot of fun for us.

[N est à?]

Anyone But Italy

T.E Lawrence? Is he on OTF?

[Bored Of Education]

Anyone But Italy

P.S. Has anyone on OTF managed to move to a different country and not begun despising all the locals within about 20 minutes?

I like a lot of the English

[Gangster Octopus]

Anyone But Italy

Says the man born in England.

[Bored Of Education]

Anyone But Italy

Ouch.

[Edie St Pierre]

Anyone But Italy

Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart? Is he on Otf?

[linus]

Anyone But Italy

Present (me, not Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart).

[Er Liquidatore]

Anyone But Italy

well this isn't going well

[Auntie Beryl]

Anyone But Italy

I visited Naples for two days in 1991, and all four teenage girls I was travelling with got groped on the bus. So come on Spain!!!

[linus]

Anyone But Italy

The situation is becoming rather serious, we should call for an ABI general meeting.