Game 1: Germany vs Scotland from the Fußball Arena München, LIVE on ITV1 kick off 8pm

[titchuk]

56 minutes ago, Redshift said:

I mean given the weather right now it wouldn’t surprise me if half of Scotland was over there. 

Apparently they've estimated there are 200,000 fans there, so about 4% of the population is in Munich right now - not quite half but still mad!

[Redshift]

 

[CFuller]

10 minutes to go until ITV1 go live, which means our first look at ITV's tournament titles. Always an exciting time. 

Here's a reminder of what the BBC and ITV went with for the last major tournament in Germany. (Can't imbed the videos. Grrr.)

The BBC were clear winners in 2006 for me, but ITV usually make the better, more spine-tingling intros. I just hope the BBC make a better effort than the "HERE WE HERE WE HERE WE GO" garbage from 18 months ago.

[Coulthard's Jaw]

HERE WE GO

[Barnzy]

Liked those titles! 

[CFuller]

"Sponsored by Visit Qatar." No, thanks.

Nice fairytale theme with the ITV titles, though. I like it. 

[GunmaN1905]

Found an even more epic version of Flower.

All I want is Scotland to score first for massive scenes.

[RTHerringbone]

Pougatch though 

[CFuller]

Just now, GunmaN1905 said:

Found an even more epic version of Flower.

All I want is Scotland to score first for massive scenes.

CMON!!! You've got to love Ronnie Browne - and I'm English! 

[Andrew_]

Didn't have Keane down as someone who would wear half and half trousers.

[Barnzy]

That stadium is fantastic isn’t it 

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

On 13/06/2024 at 08:24, GunmaN1905 said:

Get in.

More importantly, will Tartan Army break Munich's record for the amount of beer consumed in a single day?

I'm watching the German broadcast right now, and they mentioned several pubs in the city have reportedly run out of beer. 

[Coulthard's Jaw]

Lorraine  

[Smallen]

are there no other Scottish people on ITV’s payroll or summat? . I’m bemused.

[GunmaN1905]

The most defensively solid lineup Nagelsmann could've fielded.

With these players it feels like it should be 4321 since neither Wirtz nor Musiala are wingers, but attacking midfielders.

[CFuller]

I'm going for Germany to win 2-1.

Havertz to score first, McTominay to equalise, and then Rudiger scores the winner.

[Gizmo7]

Germany 1-0 Scotland.

[Rob1981]

 

[Darren Moores Mum]

God that Under Armour ad is ****ing annoying. Why are they all singing "we are the greatest team" in the wrong tune?

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

7 minutes ago, Rob1981 said:

 

He's doing it on hard mode, too, going out at the group stage the last three times.

[Wiggins Top Boys]

Everyone is absolutely buzzing up here, we are talking blue and white balloon archway pub entrance buzzing. Euros FEVER

[CFuller]

3 minutes ago, The Amazing Dale Watkins said:

He's doing it on hard mode, too, going out at the group stage the last three times.

Germany wish they had gone out at the group stage in Euro 2020. Then they would have avoided us. 

[GunmaN1905]

5 minutes ago, The Amazing Dale Watkins said:

He's doing it on hard mode, too, going out at the group stage the last three times.

Modrić should be at 32 right now. Could've been 35 if 2010 WC wasn't missed.

Kind of ridiculous that Maldini doesn't have a trophy with Italy.

Edited June 14 by GunmaN1905

[RTHerringbone]

That Scottish crowd looks awesome 

[Freakiie]

Just can't get hyped for Germany taking the experiment "False Nine" into the 5th major tournament in a row after it failed 4 times already. 5th time's the charm or something apparently.

[dafuge]

That Irn-Bru advert 

[skybluedave]

1 minute ago, dafuge said:

That Irn-Bru advert 

All these adverts are awful. What's wrong with a good old fashioned simple "buy a nice fancy Hisense tv to watch the games on this summer" ad

[Barnzy]

Did Souness say they all need to be fully constipated?

[GunmaN1905]

Only 5 minutes ceremony. Germany efficency at work.

Edited June 14 by GunmaN1905

[eenie]

42 minutes ago, Smallen said:

are there no other Scottish people on ITV’s payroll or summat? . I’m bemused.

Yeah, it's pretty disgraceful really.

I cannot believe that we are having to endure Sam Matterface here. ITV are so ****ing **** it's not even funny.

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

3 minutes ago, Freakiie said:

Just can't get hyped for Germany taking the experiment "False Nine" into the 5th major tournament in a row after it failed 4 times already. 5th time's the charm or something apparently.

I mean, what are we going to do? We simply haven't had a really good number nine since Klose. Füllkrug is the closest thing we have, and he's not really at that level.

[RTHerringbone]

Well they've saved some money with this.

[georginho_juventusygr]

COME ON, SCOTLAND!

[Smallen]

opening ceremonies:

[DJ]

1 minute ago, GunmaN1905 said:

Only 5 minutes ceremonty. Germany efficency at work.

So unnecessary. As far as I'm concerned they could do away with this nonsense completely. For all sports. If I want to see dancing, I'll go to a theater. Bah! Humbug!

[Redshift]

What is this? It's so bland

[Darren Moores Mum]

None of these appear to be Nena, Scorpions, Kraftwerk, or David Hasselhoff.

[dafuge]

No drumming, I though they had to have drumming.

[CFuller]

The music at this opening ceremony is top-notch. OneRepublic, followed by some guy going "dur dur dur".

Were Lena and Rammstein not available then?

Edited June 14 by CFuller

[GunmaN1905]

1 minute ago, The Amazing Dale Watkins said:

I mean, what are we going to do? We simply haven't had a really good number nine since Klose. Füllkrug is the closest thing we have, and he's not really at that level.

Fullkrug is plenty good with his skillset, imo.

1 minute ago, DJ said:

So unnecessary. As far as I'm concerned they could do away with this nonsense completely. For all sports. If I want to see dancing, I'll go to a theater. Bah! Humbug!

As the great Max Allegri said: If you want to be entertained, go to the circus.

[Redshift]

I wonder what other kind of flags they could have used instead.

[SouthCoastRed]

8 minutes ago, dafuge said:

That Irn-Bru advert 

That could well be the highlight tonight

[Andrew_]

This is so bland  all feels very muted

[RTHerringbone]

How is this still going on?

[Haguey]

The only tournament that gets ceremonies right is the Olympics. And Eurovision.

[Redshift]

I'm going to predict Scotland will batter Germany.

[RTHerringbone]

Robertson is already bright red 

[Darren Moores Mum]

That's as good an opening ceremony as you can get. All expense spared, get it over with quickly, **** off.

[SouthCoastRed]

1 minute ago, Redshift said:

I'm going to predict Scotland will batter Germany.

I’ll have an ounce of whatever the **** you’re smoking

[SouthCoastRed]

1 minute ago, RTHerringbone said:

Robertson is already bright red 

That’s every Scotsman in Germany tbh