Euro 2012, TNA and then Euro 2012 again
Jun. 20th, 2012 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Dear ITV, you know why Hodgson's hunches work. It's because Roy Hodgson's selections aren't hunches, they're not feelings, they're ideas based on who he's got in his team and who the opponents have in theirs and respective strengths and weaknesses.
Dear Wayne Rooney, remember it's Andy Carroll you're now playing with. Less clever, clever may be advised. And this isn't me picking on Rooney or Carroll, I said the same thing to Youri Djorkaeff in 1998 re: Guivarc'h and Dugarry.
Poor Scott Parker took one heck of a whack. As did whichever poor Ukrainian just got landed on by Carroll.
Dear lord, I have just seen England play the German defensive diamond formation of 2002. Roy Hodgson has worked marvels. This is not meant to be sarcastic, it's difficult to do. (Both the formation and getting England to stick to it.)
That Yarmolenko is not a bad little player.
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How do I know Austin Aries is winning the X-division match? Because they didn't bother to announce either of his challengers. And neither of them are slouches, the challengers being Zeema Ion and Chris Sabin. Way to go TNA.
Austin Aries is fabulous.
And of course, the minute they've got something going on it's to an ad break, I can't imagine how annoying that is for the live audience.
OMG, they're being nice to my favourite evil midget. And putting him in a horrible but interesting fix.
The soap opera that will not end is carrying on. And it'll carry on till next week. I think it's going to turn out that AJ is Dixie's son.
AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy (atomic levels of cheering for both, although I'll give the creatures this, they're louder), RVD, Magnus, Bully Ray, Angle, the returning Pope (um, yeah, I know why he's called that, but please, it causes some very odd sentences).
I love that everyone stopped while Abyss did his thing. Total stoppage.
And now Robbie E! has appeared. And evil Daniels. Who is evil. And is getting nuclear heat. Then Joe, who murderises poor Robbie E!
And then the Cowboy. Who gets one heck of a cheer.
So this ends with Cowboy vs Joe and then we suddenly get told that whoever loses the title match tonight gets to join in.
There's some good business and Storm wins and then promos his little heart out. Oh I <3 the Cowboy so very much. Followed by a Roode interview that's short and perfectly formed. Oh TNA, I know you're only going to disappoint me from here on in but so far so good.
And they do immediately but referencing the soap opera that never ends, because apparently AJ wasn't all there in the match at Slammiversary. I must have been watching a different match.
Back to a World Title match that actually let Bobby Roode win clean (why yes, you did hear that correctly). Happy.
Back to soap opera. Unhappy.
Suddenly there is an interview with Sting instead of wrestling. I thought I'd discussed my objection to the old man hour.
And suddenly, evil masked non-jas (thank you Speed Racer for that term). Who ordered mysterious nonjas. And why is no-one coming to help Sting who we've just had a five minute love-fest for?
In short, TNA are doing that thing again where half of it is promising and the other half is dreadful.
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Euro 2012 - quarter final diagram
Obviously, it's less spread out.
Bayern Munich no longer contribute the most players, Real Madrid do, as all 11 of their players are still in, while 4 of Bayern Munich's players have been eliminated.
The divide between Greece, Germany and the Czech Republic and everyone else is still there, which is interesting, as Croatia, Russia and Ukraine are all out, and I thought it was the links to them that were pulling Greece, Germany and the Czech Republic up and out. It's obviously not.
Interestingly, if you look at it using modularity as the partition, Chelsea becomes it's own group, alone amongst the other teams.
Dear Wayne Rooney, remember it's Andy Carroll you're now playing with. Less clever, clever may be advised. And this isn't me picking on Rooney or Carroll, I said the same thing to Youri Djorkaeff in 1998 re: Guivarc'h and Dugarry.
Poor Scott Parker took one heck of a whack. As did whichever poor Ukrainian just got landed on by Carroll.
Dear lord, I have just seen England play the German defensive diamond formation of 2002. Roy Hodgson has worked marvels. This is not meant to be sarcastic, it's difficult to do. (Both the formation and getting England to stick to it.)
That Yarmolenko is not a bad little player.
~~~~
How do I know Austin Aries is winning the X-division match? Because they didn't bother to announce either of his challengers. And neither of them are slouches, the challengers being Zeema Ion and Chris Sabin. Way to go TNA.
Austin Aries is fabulous.
And of course, the minute they've got something going on it's to an ad break, I can't imagine how annoying that is for the live audience.
OMG, they're being nice to my favourite evil midget. And putting him in a horrible but interesting fix.
The soap opera that will not end is carrying on. And it'll carry on till next week. I think it's going to turn out that AJ is Dixie's son.
AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy (atomic levels of cheering for both, although I'll give the creatures this, they're louder), RVD, Magnus, Bully Ray, Angle, the returning Pope (um, yeah, I know why he's called that, but please, it causes some very odd sentences).
I love that everyone stopped while Abyss did his thing. Total stoppage.
And now Robbie E! has appeared. And evil Daniels. Who is evil. And is getting nuclear heat. Then Joe, who murderises poor Robbie E!
And then the Cowboy. Who gets one heck of a cheer.
So this ends with Cowboy vs Joe and then we suddenly get told that whoever loses the title match tonight gets to join in.
There's some good business and Storm wins and then promos his little heart out. Oh I <3 the Cowboy so very much. Followed by a Roode interview that's short and perfectly formed. Oh TNA, I know you're only going to disappoint me from here on in but so far so good.
And they do immediately but referencing the soap opera that never ends, because apparently AJ wasn't all there in the match at Slammiversary. I must have been watching a different match.
Back to a World Title match that actually let Bobby Roode win clean (why yes, you did hear that correctly). Happy.
Back to soap opera. Unhappy.
Suddenly there is an interview with Sting instead of wrestling. I thought I'd discussed my objection to the old man hour.
And suddenly, evil masked non-jas (thank you Speed Racer for that term). Who ordered mysterious nonjas. And why is no-one coming to help Sting who we've just had a five minute love-fest for?
In short, TNA are doing that thing again where half of it is promising and the other half is dreadful.
~~~~
Euro 2012 - quarter final diagram
Obviously, it's less spread out.
Bayern Munich no longer contribute the most players, Real Madrid do, as all 11 of their players are still in, while 4 of Bayern Munich's players have been eliminated.
The divide between Greece, Germany and the Czech Republic and everyone else is still there, which is interesting, as Croatia, Russia and Ukraine are all out, and I thought it was the links to them that were pulling Greece, Germany and the Czech Republic up and out. It's obviously not.
Interestingly, if you look at it using modularity as the partition, Chelsea becomes it's own group, alone amongst the other teams.
