Half time and a 0-0 scoreline is no real surprise. I cannot help but be permanently annoyed with Mario Balotelli, and for someone who is hardly a small, weak chap, he seems to go down more easily than Ashley Young - and that's really saying something. Lee Dixon manages to come out with a comment at half time that surpasses anything shit that Shearer can come out with -
Dixon: "I was feeling excited at the beginning of the first round but now I'm feeling equally amount of worried."
Lee, this makes Shearer look like Ludwig Wittgenstein!
Second Half
- Milner's cross from the right - pathetic
- Hart punches poorly and Italy miss an easy chance - lucky England
- I am pissed off with yet another reference to Balotelli knowing some of the England players
- Terry heads away, with a good clearance.
- Balotelli with a chance, catching England out - lucky England
- Milner shoots - less power than my mum puts into tossing a pancake!
- Gerrard falls over, then loses the ball
- Glen Johnson accidently knocks the ball out of play and then disputes it
- Ashley Young gets a bump on the head - hopefully he'll being going off as he's simply not very good
- Overhead from Balotelli - good try
- Welbeck and Milner go off, and Young stays on - weird choice, Roy? Should have removed Young.
- Mark Lawrenson comes out with a classic: "England are doing that thing again where they just keep giving the ball away."
- Young, you twat!
- Young, you twat - pathetic shot!
- Italians fouling from the corner, yet getting the free kick?
- Hart kicks to Cole, who heads to an Italian
- Young gives the ball away
- 15 mins to go, and England are adopting seige conditions
- Rooney missed the cross from Gerrard
- Young gives the ball away
- Hart punches and gives away a corner. Italy corner = Hart punches away
- Diamanti shoots while England players watch
- Young kicks the ball too far in front of him, but luckily for England the Italian shows studs and is penalised
- Wasted free kick
- Italy Number 6 is a waster, and is not really hurt
- England haven't a clue what to do
- Terry gives the ball away
- Parker kicks it past Walcott
- Italy nearly score - Johnson blocks to give a corner
- Rourke's Drift and this is hard work
- Rooney's overhead kick is over the stadium wall
- Final whistle
Extra Time
- "Andy Carroll is charging around like a bull in a china shop," says the commentator, Guy Mowbray
- Ashley Young cheats to get a free kick and the Italian is booked
- Parker is substituted
- Rooney loses the ball and was just useless
- Carroll loses the ball
- England - doing my head in
- Italy hit the post again - Hart had no clue
- Glen Johnson accidently knocks the ball out (again)
- Carroll gives the ball away
- Walcott should have shot instead of lifting it towards Carroll
- Half Time
- Ball possession stats come on to the screen, showing 63% to Italy; not surprising considering how many time England gives the ball away
- Italy cons a free kick
- Carroll clumsily bowls over an Italian who can't wait to fall over, so a free kick in a dangerous position is needlessly conceded
- Converted by Balotelli - converted means he would have scored 2 points in Rugby
- Italy score - offside. Shame for them, as they have tried so much, unlike England
- Carroll and Rooney tackle each other and give the ball away
- Dire last few minutes
- Penalties
Stevie G gives some pointless comments after the match - as Gabby Logan holds a microphone. She starts for some strange reason with a weird statement: "You leave this tournament with your heads held high." [What ???] All England did was play well for half an hour in the first half. The rest was mediocre, plus hanging on for dear life.
Italy deserved to win by a mile - congratulations.
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