Spain Women's Euros

You have to ask the managers of both teams.....

WHAT THE FECK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO ?

There is no pattern of play , no TACTICAL nouse and just two teams slogging it out like two veteran boxers in the ring

England should beat either of these in the final, especially with an extra day's rest.

All the daphnes have Brazilians.  Maybe they requested her.

Hard to believe there has ever been a fitter side than the Germans. Excellent shift from Kleinherne. Problem is if it goes to penalties you would think a technically gifted side like Spain will be pretty difficult to beat.

Gunther Netzer in the crowd ,has had the same hairstyle for over 50 years now.

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England should beat either of these in the final, especially with an extra day's rest.

PMSL ....I would not bank on that

I agree.  Kleinherne outstanding.

Jul 23, 2025 -- 10:15PM, snowynoon wrote:

Gunther Netzer in the crowd ,has had the same hairstyle for over 50 years now.

I wish

Brand is vey fit

had enough of this **** ...... Nite all

Jul 23, 2025 -- 10:18PM, irishone wrote:

had enough of this **** ...... Nite all

Missing you already

PUB FOOTBALL

G’night irish.

Jul 23, 2025 -- 10:19PM, LoyalHoncho wrote:

G’night irish.

IDF time?

This massively helps England's chances on Sunday, a whole day's extra rest and this game going all the way to pens.

How come there's absolutely no hotties in either side?

It's all very disappointing I must say.

Nice finish.

Ah, keeper should have covered that.

Goalie at fault but great shot

beaten at her near post, too busy reading her water bottle?

Get in there ,backed Spain ,could give her a great big kiss ......then again maybe not.

The constant gaslighting and fawning over awful quality football by the media is the worst part

Goalkeeper looked very wimpy there

England vs Spain final for the 3rd year in a row.

Watched it all, somehow missed the goal.  Still, will see it at least ten times between now and tomorrow lunchtime.

Easy save?  Ffs, shut up woman.

Yes if England keeper made that save they'd be raving about it .

That cross...you gotta laugh.

It was an easy save. If it had gone in it would be awful goalkeeping

I quite enjoyed it. Nice result but England must be big underdogs.

Interesting England 3:35

With the extra day's rest, would have them 2:00

She made it look easier because she was paying attention and was thus in good position.  It was an excellent save.

On Irish TV they just said the goal was 'a moment of class, the vision the execution.... clinical and highly technical'

It was a miss-hit cross which went into the centre of the goal with the keeper beaten at near post. An u-10 keeper would be gutted to let that in.

Spain currently 1.45 on here, England 3.2

Folk mustn't be impressed by Spain tonite.

Mis-hit cross my rss.  The goalie left a gap of a yard as she set up, the Spaniard clocked it and said why not and tried her luck.

thought Spain would be more like 4/11 pokes surprised to see 10 clicks bigger

England have been awful in the knockouts barring about a 10 minute period

Bonmati's goal was definitely deliberate and a proper touch of class in awareness and execution.  I don't see England parking two buses in defence like the Germans for the final.  I expect the game to be similar to the NL match 7 weeks ago.

The finish was class. The German player dangerously dribbling in her own penalty box area and then clearing it away to a Spanish player just before it ... not so much.

I thought it was a pretty good game between two very good teams. The goal was class. Goal keeper a5 fault bu5 onl6 because her defenders left her exposed. She was trying to get the defenders in to block the cross and left a small gap, which, Bonmatti exploited. It could have gone wide or hit the keeper but it did not.

Why do people watch if they think women’s football is a joke? The last few days has been great tv.

Aitana Bonmati revealed Spain had spotted Germany goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger’s tendency to step away from her near post after scoring from the tightest of angles to send the world champions into the Euro 2025 final.

The two-time Ballon d’Or winner broke the deadlock in the 113th minute of the semi-final when she squeezed a shot from close to the byline past the Germany goalkeeper, as Spain set up a World Cup final rematch with European champions England on Sunday.

Barcelona midfielder Bonmati confirmed after the match that she intended to shoot after Spain had studied Berger’s positioning and found she often left the near post uncovered in anticipation of a cross or a pull-back.

Berger had signalled to her defenders with her right arm, pointing towards the space in the penalty box, just as Bonmati unleashed a fierce strike of power and accuracy to find the narrow gap Berger had left behind.

Some real experts and mind readers on here.

Looks legit. I spend loads of time studying bergers too.

Spain look a bit short in the 90 mins betting to me. I wasn't too impressed with them against Germany. Maybe Germany were good. They certainly were in a physical sense. Better than England in that regard ?

I think Howard it depends how England approach the game, Germany definitely made it difficult for Spain with a certain tactical approach. English FA will obviously have their own qualified tactical people looking at a lot of videos and data and then advise the head coach, but it will be her decision how they go. Personally I think if they go head to head with Spain, there is only one outcome, but do they have players to go the German way and implement an alternative plan ?
Intriguing final anyway.

First time i've seen Spain malay. Didn't look too clever in the final third but I would guess that's the same with all women's teams.  On my limited evidence I would say England are as good up top it's just a matter of how many they let in. But I don't quite see Spain so hot 90 mins the outright anyone that is confident about them probably better going outright.

England journey has been pure box office

Beyond Roy of the rovers, beyond Billy the fish

I think there will not be a penalty period. I think Spain will win by a 2 goal margin. Spain at 1.85 (90mins) is a goer for me.

I think if you are betting wait till first 15 minutes and see how England set up.

Jul 24, 2025 -- 8:05AM, Whisperingdeath wrote:

I thought it was a pretty good game between two very good teams. The goal was class. Goal keeper a5 fault bu5 onl6 because her defenders left her exposed. She was trying to get the defenders in to block the cross and left a small gap, which, Bonmatti exploited. It could have gone wide or hit the keeper but it did not. Why do people watch if they think women’s football is a joke? The last few days has been great tv.

it's harsh to call it a joke tbf. problem is its always compared to the men and from a speed and quality perspective there is just no contest. however, from an atmosphere and sportmanship perspective its no contest that the women are better.

Every school team should be able to beat them. That is not the point. It is sport and has its own story to tell. There were just some stupid ignorant comments made.

I have really enjoyed the drama. Do I watch Tika taca? No!

i agree its not the point. comparisons are futile but the fact is they are made and are the basis for most complaints against the womens game.

I enjoy it as a sporting contest.
But the nonsense from the media and pundits about the quality is nauseating. Then you have people saying it's a different sport. No it fúcking isn't.
The players have not been pushed by a properly competitive talent pool since they were girls in the way that top men were since boys. The skill, athleticism and fitness levels fall far short of what women are actually capable of.

Not every school team, but most.

Woman's football has thrived without top athletes
because the top athletes got lottery funding to do athletics.

Woman's football wasn't popular even 10 years ago so the top
athletes are yet to hit the lionesses squad.. Assuming some will.

15 year old boys are as strong and fast as adult women so little
wonder they out compete women's national squads.

Dina asher Smith earns 5 or 6 times what top paid lioness can get
so footy still has a way to go but surge of popularity will
see more lasses give the game a go.

My sisters never played footy, the missus never played footy, all
would have loved to have done, but wasn't really an option.

When I went to school in France the lasses were better than
the lads,.... Beat them easily, funny old world.

Dina asher Smith wins gold medal we rave about her skill

Emma radacanu wins usa open we rave about her

There's a 14year old lad runs faster than Dina, not many even
heard of him...

Funny old world

UK Plc rarely wins at sporting events. The men's football team were pants - won nothing - despite having the best team and players in Europe at one time. However, the women's team have done; their never-say-die attitude and spirit have shone through in the last couple of games. They won even though it was pretty, but they won unlike the men's - a bunch of **** that regularly capitulated without raising a mighty defence.

And the men's Manager received a knighthood for reasons that defeat me apart from the fact that he presided over some of the most stupefying, boring football that I have ever witnessed whilst preventing talented players from delivering what their potential promised.

he got it because he was a nice and cosy yes man bluemax.

and for achieving par at best with the players he had available. par isnt success, but relative to the over par performances of the years before it looked good. everything is relative

The differences between men and women when it comes to sports has been laid bare in Athletics, men run faster, jump higher, throw further and exert a greater level of force, the times and distances recorded in this sport demonstrate it perfectly. The fastest 100m ever recorded by a women was 10.49 (and that’s questionable), yet at least 5000  men have run faster, quickest women's Marathon time is 2:09:56 (and she’s just been banned for drugs), yet nearly 4700 men have run it quicker, highest women’s Pole Vault is 5:06, at least 5000 men have Pole Vaulted higher. When you put all of these physical characteristics, components and limitations together on a football pitch such as velocity, bodily aerodynamics and power exertion , then of course women’s sport is a completely different sport to men’s sport, they’ve been saying this in Tennis for decades and WTA Tennis has been Professional since the Open era began in the lat 1960’, the Pro female players, commentators and journalists have always acknowledged this. Even Sabalenka the World number 1 just recently said men’s tennis is just different level, Serena acknowledged at her best in an interview she wouldn’t be top 1000 in the ATP This is why you cannot compare women’s sports to mens and why it should not be looked at in the same way, but why the simple minded will contrast, compare and then mock, because they’re dumb.

Even in another 20 years when women’s sports stars become far more athletic and powerful, as they have done in tennis, it’s still not going to be comparable to the men’s game, the standard will be higher, but optically it’s still always going to be worse for women’s footballers than tennis players because you could fit 6-7 tennis courts on to a football pitch, meaning on a tennis court because of the smaller size, the differences in power and movement are far less noticeable to the naked eye, on open wide spaces such as a football pitch, the levels of intensity, the sudden movements and power output when hitting a ball from distance are much more obvious in comparison the men’s game that most people have been watching for decades. It’s part of the reason why the growth of women’s football has a ceiling, that and along with the fact sport is a saturated market and women’s football is too far behind the curve to catch up to that level, one off big events like the World Cup will attract huge audiences, but you’re not going to see regularly packed out 60,000 stadia for run-of-the-mill league matches any time soon.

Kind Regards.

Another guesser

You may be right mes. but for me the big selling point of Women’s football is that families can attend, together, in numbers,  in perfect peace.  Not a hooli in sight.  The quality on the pitch is almost irrelevant.

True Honcho

How many sports do men and women compete against each other. Even snooker and darts have women’s only tournaments

Equestrian, which, is generally for rich people only.

Mud and oil wrestling

ironing

It's never going to be as much of a draw as the men's, same with all sports.
Comparing what men are capable of individually v women is ridiculous. Women don't play against men and it's all relative to your opponent.
You can fit 6-7 tennis courts on a football pitch but there are 10 times the outfield players.

Why would they compare it to men’s?

They are playing their sport. It attracted a UK audience of ten million viewers and on Sunday it will be even higher.

What is wrong with that!

The point is that people consistently mock women's football and sport, largely because they are comparing it to the men's whether they know they are or not, they've been watching men's football for example for decades, then they see women's football, and it's a massive drop down in intensity, agility and power, instead of recognising this and taking women's sport for what it is, they contrast and compare and then laugh at it. When a ball is it hit in tennis at 140mph compared to 120mph you can't tell the difference, when a man runs a distance greater than the length of a couple of tennis courts on a football pitch, the difference in speed is much more noticeable in comparison to a women doing the same thing as a basic example, then there's free kicks and crosses, big drop down in power exertion which optically on TV looks very weak when compared to men's football, then there's the Goals and the pitches, the size of them were designed by men, for men, and they look far too big for women. The passing and moving in the Spain v Germany game was quite good, there were not any slapstick type moments or comedy or errors whatsoever, they are technical adequate and well coached, yet it was described on this thread as Sunday league, which is stupid, because it clearly wasn't and could have been meant as Sunday League if someone was unconsciously comparing it to the ability's of the Pro Men's game. Kind Regards.

decent pressing game

True

Women tennis stars are as popular as men and can earn big money.

Football is big on the USA where the women I think earn more than the men or did until they brought in equality!

Long way to go but lionesses attracting bigger audiences
than cwc and sky would kill for 10 million viewers for a game.

Itv got lucky with France beating england



https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/04/15/masters-sunday-becomes-most-watched-day-in-sky-sports-history/

7.5 million in a day for sky

There'll be loads more going to WSL games next season due to the quality of the play.

On a totally unrelated note:

24 July 2025
Seven Women's Super League clubs have joined a trial that will allow supporters to drink alcohol in the stands during the 2025-26 season.

Last season's top four - champions Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United - are among the clubs who will take part.

It follows an initial trial last term at four clubs in the second tier - rebranded as WSL2 this season - that offered fans the opportunity to consume alcohol while watching the match.

League operator WSL Football said the trial was a success, with 66% of the 51,000 spectators that took part supporting the idea.

Civilised!

Ally Ross has written an amusing and perceptive piece on the BBC/ITV coverage of this tournament



https://archive.ph/9GwnU

No doubt he will be part of the scums 48 page pull out
trying to boost circulation on back of the lionesses.



Unlucky Spain backers, shît happens

Does anyone actually read tabloids anymore? their circulation sunk so low they stopped printing how many copies they sold compared to everyone else a long while ago, mass media and social media have seen them and their influence off

Hence why they produce articles where woke is every 2nd word
to catch the last few quid off aging racist misogynists

loser i thh  end

Spare a thought for Mary Earp.

She died a bit tonight.

Yep Mary turned down a winners medal

Somebody else celebrating on pitch after game

Hey ho

The truth obviously hurts YHTL.

Mes - the tabloid circulation has obviously plummeted but the The Sun and Daily Mail still do ok, certainly compared to the likes of The Guardian.
All of the above named have very similar online readership figures (circa 21m to 22m).

I'm pleased it hurts you, tough,

I'm afraid you are wrong (again) YHTL. In fact i bet on England pre tournament @ 9/2.

Good luck to the players - they are not to blame for the hysterical over reaction, wilful blindness and awful "analysis" offered up by the media, especially the BBC.

Still hurting, ha ha ha, good to see

Typical lefty response, never any proper counter argument just insults.

Is there not much out there on the net worthy of your "copy and paste" time at the moment ?

My betting balance is certainly not hurting btw !

Lefty, lol

Must be hurting bad,... Delicious

The point is tabloids in this country used to rule the roost, they were in bed with politicians, got away with consistently breaking the law, such as hacking into the phones of dead school children to get a story, and constantly bragged about how it was them who won elections.

They were forced online due to saturation in competition and they are no longer the go to source of information, most people get latest breaking stories on their social media feeds or 24 hour rolling news channels, printed stories in papers is out of the date before the ink is dry, the Sun and Mail only survive thanks to their online presence taking in a global audience, a service that specifically panders to people who want to outraged or want to stare at Kym Kardashians huge arse, those clicks equals revenue, they are not concentrating on quality and it doesn't reflect any kind of influence over the general public, their mood or their opinion any more.

It's amusing how the Guardian is often held up as the poster child of left wing thinking and ideas given they have such a small readership, some London boroughs have bigger populations then they have people reading their papers, their influence is also greatly exaggerated. It's just another echo chamber the same as practically every major news outlet there is.

I'm neither left or right, pigeon holing thoughts into boxes is stupid, everyone should aim to be balanced not tribal, I enjoy caning either side when they get it wrong, Starmer on Winter fuel allowance just before winter began getting ready to kill of some of the 10 million pensioners that no longer qualified, or the that little scrotum Matt Handjob the Health secretary, telling the whole country to stay home away from family, children and friends, all the while he was out sh@gging some bint in an extramarital affair. Do as I say and not as I do. Parasite.


Kind Regards.

I wouldn't disagree with your thoughts mes, but people are often swayed by what they read and the online readership of most (if not all) newspapers is much higher than any previous print readership. Whilst papers like The Sun cannot realistically claim to have affected an election result like they could in the past , they do still have some influence. 

There are still plenty out there who like to read a print newspaper, my local village agent still delivers a healthy number each morning although naturally it is the more advanced in years who he is delivering to !

And of course, as we regularly see, never completely trust a politician, no matter which party they represent.

I backed England at 5.8

Tidy profit but I covered France and Germany too in case they did for Spain which was the point of my bet. It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.

Spain were clearly the best team but my niece told me England could beat anyone but lose to anyone on the night as it proved against France opening up the draw.

I was standing on a £70 loss on Spain or something like £156 win if England won so I decided to eliminate the downside risk and green out for a fiver! Which was the right decision but still leaves a taste.

Overall I would say it was a great tournament and great for women’s football

It is also a huge win for the young men of this country. More girls will now be playing football and other sports. There will be less fatties roaming around in short skirts and boob tubes and that can only be a good thing!

I hope the FA, the Government and the NHS can build upon this.

Bad news for those who want to divide our society.

What is Englishness?

Having a big heart!

Village idiot loony loony lefty alert!!!

Please get today’s medication quickly now!

Bringing dividing society into a thread about female football!!!

How very dare anyone ever criticise and state how poor the standard of women’s football is!!

As the whole of Europe has witnessed over the last four weeks.

Don’t you say it out loud, shhhhh now, or you will be a…….

Bigot wacist bigot wacist!!

Shame about the final result but that's football

Didn't watch any of it, but did keep in touch with the girls and also watched the latter game highlights. What really puts me off though are the commentators who over state almost every kick or save... irritating. I do appreciate the differences between men and women, but just not my kind of entertainment.

I watched on ITV.

I thought their coverage was excellent

People watching on bbc on mute... Lol.

The BBC have confirmed that they had a peak live audience of 12.2 million people watching England win the EUROs last night

7.8m on mute...

Nurse!

Benjamin had escaped again and is off his meds!

I thought it was 2 excellent goals that were scored in the 90 minutes, well created and finished. I can't see how anyone can say otherwise unless they have no knowledge of football or have a sad agenda against woman's football.
Well done England, I didn't want you to win, however fair play you got job done and big achievement to retain title no doubts on that.
Spain looked tired and subs they brought on were disappointing IMO.

The goals were certainly decent Malay, but the rest of it wasn't up to much, unless of course you have the opposite agenda to which you referred.

The main criticism people have is of the media coverage and the tv channels in particular, they do not paint a true picture of what one sees with ones own eyes.
It's fine to promote women's football and shed a positive light on it, but don't make out it's something other than what it actually is.

Didn't think it was great match myself Dixie but it was no worse than many finals I have seen. I have certainly nothing to gain from being positive about woman's football, and I certainly have never said it's anything other than what it clearly is. It was a competitive European competition well organised for girls/ladies and I enjoyed it but I love football.
I wouldn't watch Rugby, mens or girls/ladies not my game.
There is always a mute button Dixie, try it.

Finals in most sports are often cagey drab affairs so i concur there.

Unfortunately although you can mute the TV, if you have the radio on you can't do that, nor with the written press !

Don't need to read papers Dixie apart from racing post, I don't drive so radio not important to myself. GL