News: France-Albania & France-Bosnia (Oct. 7 and Oct. 11) Euro 2012 qualifiers

Vitez don't worry, we all saw Bosnia deserved a place more then France. Frenchman also, they know that, but what you expect them to say?

A referee can't deny Platini a place in a competition. Just go and google about the Ireland game ref, you would then ask yourself why an incompetent like him was appointed to a crucial game of that stance.

Twice now they have to be saved by the ref to qualify, and believe me this is a stain on their reputation.

So now thay defend like cats would do, when cornered.

This is getting freaking ridiculous. Mods coming in here and encouraging trolls to just disparage our threads.

Why do we need to put up with this?

I'm flagging every troll post in here.

Speaking of which, something funny happened during the Ireland game :

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It once again prove that all those moanings last year were ridiculous. I'm still waiting for their federation to ask for a new game, Henry should not have celebrated his goal (assist actually), should have told the ref he made a handball and so on...

Personally, I'm not so much worried about the trolls--we knew they were coming, they came, they'll be gone as soon as they find out who their opponent is in the playoffs (in just a few hours then).

What concerns me a lot more is the fact that the Bosnia forum is "moderated" by newbies (why?) who obviously have no interest in moderating, are there to add oil to the fire, and don't seem to be able to control their emotions.

Of course, I don't have to go to the Bosnia forum, but I feel I have a stake in Big Soccer. I love these boards and value the civil tone that prevails throughout the site. Let things get out of hand in one forum and you have one foot on the proverbial slippery slope...

Anything being done about this as far as you know?

because those same newbies basically started the bosnian forum on this site, geez.

anyways, good luck to france in euro 2012 they were good opponents in this group, maybe we meet again one day.

Fair enough. I just hate the thought of a part of Big Soccer where it's acceptable to wish for a man's death and call for his murder just because one is upset about a disputable call. I don't think you'd let it happen here and I certainly don't remember any precedent on Big Soccer (no one went to such extremes on the Ireland board after Henry's hand ball for example).

Time to move on, though. The Bosnian posters are gone, their attention all on Portugal. They may or may not be around this summer (honestly I think the Bosnia-Portugal tie is a 50-50 affair). I'm not particularly looking forward to their outbursts of uncontrolled rage if their team ends up qualifying.

Give it a rest already. You make it out to be like you're some keeper of the forum. The Bosnian posters know their limits and have been civil for the most part.

Anyways, good luck at the EURO France.

Yes, I am giving it a rest. Will be watching the Bosnia-Portugal tie with interest. No clear favorite for me in this one. We'll see what happens...

In the meantime, we know we have a lot of work in front of us if we want to be half-decent this summer. More thoughts to come soon.

Nice stuff, Inara send me a warning i lost 1 point, next time she will ban me.

Guignol since you are also a mod here do you mind explaining to me how did i deserve this?


Reporting my comments as abusive and a mod jumping into it wow, so mature, who made Inara a mod here?

@lefutur let's talk about how a mod can be ridiculous now if you wish too.

Probably because your post was worthless . Who the fck are you to question her ? You've been here for 2 minutes .

Fck off

I tend to share bwiorly's view that there is a line that you don't cross when it comes to passionate outbursts on Bigsoccer. Other forums are more permissive, namely the forum that it appears all of these newbie Bosnian members were formerly a part of. Thank god Bigsoccer is nothing like that...for now.

Of course bwiorly and I have no power to regulate the forums but we do have a voice to express our opinion and if you don't like it, hey, don't visit our threads man.

You have to wonder whether the constant pressure from Bosnia during the first 60 min. of the match (that ended up costing them dearly in the last 20) was players just being caught up in the moment and not realizing that they were playing with fire, or a deliberate strategy from Susic (let's go all out for as long as we can; we know that at some point we'll run out of gas, but it might be too late in the game for France to do anything about it).

Either way, it almost worked. If fatigue had come on 80 min. instead of 60, their chances to hang on to their lead would have been greatly enhanced. And if If they had scored a second goal when they had our heads under water, we could very well have come back to draw 2-2 in the last 15 minutes, but it certainly wasn't a sure bet.

And either way, give them credit. Their drive and hunger for the ball for a whole hour was fantastic--when's the last time we played that way? Seriously? If it takes being an underdog to leave everything out on the pitch, then great, because that's what we'll be as early as the group stage at the Euro.

Regardless of the Bosnian outbursts, insults and ridiculousness on a number of forums, I'm going to pull for them to beat Portugal. My reasoning: 1.The look on Christiano Ronaldos face would be priceless, 2.Bosnia have a good team and 3.They won't spend the next decade blaming some Platini/UEFA conspiracy for their shortcomings.

You forgot the best reason to root for Bosnia from a France standpoint: we need either Portugal or Croatia to not qualify if we want to avoid being placed in Pot 4 for the Euro draw.

I still hope Portugal pulls through (and no, not just to upset our Bosnian visitors--I had many Portuguese friends growing up in the suburbs of Paris), but if they don't, at least I won't be too heartbroken.

But come on guys. You have to admit the Platini conspiracy theories are logical. Because its completely reasonable that not only did Platini bribe the referee personally, but he also brainwashed the entire world media to think that the penalty was deserved. Makes perfect sense to me.

Goes to show that his powers are limitless...

France is helped by the referees, the authorities, the UN, Chinese from the FBI, Al Qaeda, The Illuminatis, undead Nazis, the ghost of Vercingetorix unless it is Clovis or Jeanne d'Arc at least adds some novelty to the usual "you're a team of Africans"...

Oh, and I brand "typical French" the most versatile argument ever...

Problem with M'Vila is that he's indispensable both for Rennes and for France and now plays every single game. I actually expect him to struggle a bit when L1 returns if he can't get some decent rest. It's always tricky to do but I hope Antonetti will find a way to let him on the bench for some of the games.

OTOH, as an anecdote I liked how he learnt from his first half error that led to the goal which also courtesy of Rami in one of his worse performance in a blue shirt. Anyway, if you've looked at him in the second period, you can be sure he was always in front of the ball in a FK position for Bosnia; that's definitely a lesson he won't forget soon !

Wasn't Rami carrying a knee knock? That would explain why he looked like crap for large streches of the match and got schooled by Dzeko on that goal. Dzeko while a quality striker, isn't the trickiest of players...

^ Surprisingly, Dzeko can do a lot with the ball, despite the size. That wasn't Rami sucking as much as it was a world class turn and shot from Dzeko. Even the best defenders in the world would've felt completely helpless there.

lol :d

The site where i would download the EdF games (and Lyon games) got shut down. can anyone recommend a site for the France match downloads?

thanks.