Just going back to the golden goal, there are two problems that grated. The more practical one was that in itself a golden goal is just as big a lottery as penalties but at least with extra-time you had the chance to claw back goals. However the bigger problem was that it never felt right finishing a football game like that. Perhaps it's different from those that were there and experienced it but whenever there was a golden goal I always felt that it always felt like a damp squib end to a game. Like a false finish. In sports where this is the norm i.e. American sports, it feels fine, but it doesn't suit football.

It suits American Football partly because of the "your turn, our turn" nature of the game. There's usually a degree of build up to the score. In football when the goal can come out of the blue, such as the Euro 96 final, it seemed odd.

If they are going to make more of an effort to get a result in extra time I quite like the idea of reducing the game to 9 a side. Would open up the game but still keep it resembling something like the real thing.

The pens in yesterdays play off final were shocking, was 2-2 before going to sudden death!

Italians at it again.

Lazio captain Stefano Mauri arrested, Juventus coach Antonio Conte & Italy defender Domenico Criscito questioned by police over match-fixing allegations. Just can't get enough.

This Hazard fella obviously likes himself a bit, what with all these ''i'll reveal who i've signed for on X date at X time'' stories... Can only imagine he's taken the ££££ and joined Citeh with that attitude

He's taken the £££ and joined Chelsea. Chelsea made him an offer of silly silly money. City could have matched it but they already have lots of players on silly silly money, so there comes a point where too many players on silly silly money costs you a lot of money and harms your chances of abiding by the new Fair Play rules.

Eden Hazard: 192 apps, 50 goals and 30 assists.
Shinji Kagawa: 198 apps, 86 goals and 45 assists.
Food for thought.

Why the hell did they choose ukraine and poland?

Their football fans are SCUM.

a sizeable donation to a cause close to someone's heart?

Its bad but its the same in large parts of Europe I'm afraid. See Croatia / Serbia also.

Why did Qatar get the world cup despite the fact it would mean players running around in 40oC heat? Why did South Africa get the world cup despite it meaning hundreds of thousands of people having their homes bulldozed to make way for white elephant stadiums? Why do players look to move club every two or three seasons? Why are players able to hold clubs to ransom, making them jump through hoops? Why does the gap between the Premier League and the Football League grow wider by the year? Why does anything happen in soccer?

I didn't think ukraine and poland would have alot of money. They're just sh*t eastern european countries that no one gives a f*ck about.

Lots of space for new stadiums though.....Half of their populations have been packed up and shipped over here to make way for them....

Too late to take it off them now, but someone will get killed out there this summer.

Someone should remind the fecking idiots about what the nazis did to their people in the war