Euro 2008 Group F Mar 28

[Finn McCool]

StatisticsTop scorers » from uefa.com website . 9 David Healy Northern Ireland 7 Lukas Podolski Germany 5 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal 5 Eduardo da Silva Croatia 5 Shota Arveladze Georgia 4 Martin Petrov Bulgaria 4 Roberto Colautti Israel 4 Robin van Persie Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Northern Ireland 6 4 1 1 10 7 3 13 2 Sweden 5 4 0 1 9 4 5 12 3 Spain 5 3 0 2 9 6 3 9 4 Denmark 4 2 1 1 7 2 5 7 5 Latvia 4 1 0 3 4 3 1 3 6 Liechtenstein 5 1 0 4 3 15 -12 3 7 Iceland 5 1 0 4 4 9 -5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top of the group Healy leading goalscorer life could not get any better if you come from Norn Iron The amazing thing is most of our side cannot get into their club sides but pull on the green shirts and they are world class . 16,000 at Windsor is like 100,000 in Barca 's stadium in full voice if they could can this atmosphere it would be worth a fortune. How many times have England beaten the Swede's in the past 40 years the English team filled with premiership superstars are having bother holding their own in a shi#e group.So don't belittle a Norn Iron "team" who are top of ther group at the half way stage,we are not getting carried away we know their are tough games ahead so it's one game at a time.

[Charlie Wong]

Originally Posted by Darren

They won 1-0, your acca is ok on their part

sweating a bit on that one last night.

happy days

[fat]

Originally Posted by tedthewolf

How do your grapes? Very bitter me think.

My grapes? Not Sweden! Not Norn Iron! Neither Leeds nor Healie! They are all too poor to watch and not so great names to remember. I'm a neutral fan in this case.

Someone said about England struggling to beat Sweden over the past 40 years? Oh, that's England, the millionaire pub team. Sweden fell to many others, and most importantly they don't have the habit to beat big teams in great tours. The only bit of metal they have picked up in the past 40 years is a World Bronze. Even Turkey managed to get one, mates. Some mentioned Spain as well. Yes, I do rate them 2nd class in Europe. Shocked? Sorry, but look at what England and Spain have achieved over the past 30 years, compared to those of Germany, Italy, and France. The 3 have been consistently on top of the continent, and possibly the world, during the time and I consider them 1st class. England and Spain are 2 big balloons. Prove me wrong please! We are talking about national teams, not clubs.

Now David Healy. Oh well, he can be world class for NI. Even the ballboys at Windsor are world class, too! I don't care. But when you speak something world class to a wider audience, please do some proper stats. Who are NI usual opponents in international games? Germany? Italy? France? The Netherlands? Spain?.... Mostly Luxembourg, Wales, Malta and the likes. How many goals has he scored against the big teams? In how many years? How many times has he played in big tours? How many goals has he scored there? I heard about some Estonian, Cypriot, Thai and Indonesian players who have scored more than 29 goals for their national team. My mate in school scored over 50 goals for the school team in just 30 games. And they are all world class!!! Healy can't be world class just because he scored 3 against Spain, 2 against Sweden and about 20 against Malta or such. World class is not an overnight business. If he really was then professional scouts worldwide should have known before we did. There might be a good chance for him to play Championship footy next season, but possibly not at Leeds. I haven't seen any widely acknowledged world class player to be playing in second divison in any country, even in this hyperoptimistic country.