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[KnightOwl]

Football (http://www.london2012.com/football/about)




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Dates

Wed 25th July - Sat 11th August

Venues

City of Coventry Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/city-of-coventry-stadium) (Coventry)
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park) (Glasgow)
Millennium Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/millennium-stadium) (Cardiff)
Old Trafford (http://www.london2012.com/venue/old-trafford) (Manchester)
St James’ Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/st-james-park) (Newcastle)
Wembley Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/wembley-stadium) (London)

Latest News

London 2012 Football (http://www.london2012.com/football)

[cazza99]

The GB women's team will be playing New Zealand on Wednesday - televised on BBC1 from 3.30 pm.

[KnightOwl]

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Wednesday 25th July
Women's Football




Kick-Off
Round
Match
Venue


16:00
1st Round Group E
GBR v NZL
Millennium Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/millennium-stadium), Cardiff


17:00
1st Round Group F
JPN v CAN
City of Coventry Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/city-of-coventry-stadium), Coventry


17:00
1st Round Group G
USA v FRA
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park), Glasgow


18:45
1st Round Group E
CMR v BRA
Millennium Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/millennium-stadium), Cardiff


19:45
1st Round Group F
SWE v RSA
City of Coventry Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/city-of-coventry-stadium), Coventry


19:45
1st Round Group G
COL v PRK
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park), Glasgow

[KnightOwl]

Great Britain v New Zealand will be shown live on BBC1 from 15:30, and BBC3 will be showing the second half of Cameroon v Brazil live from around 19:45. All other coverage will be available on the BBC 'red button'.

[KnightOwl]

It's taken 65 minutes of good pressure, but Great Britain are 1-0 up! Great goal, scored by Steph Houghton.

[Hawkeye]

Should have been 1-1 there...

2-2 France v. the USA, France were 2-0 up.

[Hawkeye]

The USA eventually win 4-2.

First controversy of the Games, the ladies football match between North Korea and Colombia has failed to start on time, allegedly because the screens at Hampden put the South Korean flag up beside the pictures of the North Korean team, and they are apparently mortally insulted.

[KnightOwl]

OMG I can hardly believe that - hugely embarrassing if it's true!

[KnightOwl]

Yep, just seen confirmation on BBC. As the teams we being introduced, the South Korean flag was displayed on the big screens in the stadium. Apparently the North Korean team coach ordered his team off the pitch in protest, and they turnd to the dressing room. The kick-off has been re-scheduled for 21:00 and I believe the teams are now coming back out.

I guess, in theory, the Koreans could have been penalised for refusing to start the match - there must be rules in that respect - but it looks like they've handled the situation sensibly - it would have been even worse I think if, for example, they had been disqualified for leaving the pitch.

[KnightOwl]

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Thursday 26th July
Men's Football




Kick-Off
Round
Match
Venue


12:00
1st Round Group D
HON v MAR
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park), Glasgow


14:30
1st Round Group B
MEX v KOR
St James’ Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/st-james-park), Newcastle


14:45
1st Round Group D
ESP v JPN
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park), Glasgow


17:00
1st Round Group A
UAE v URU
Old Trafford (http://www.london2012.com/venue/old-trafford), Manchester


17:15
1st Round Group B
GAB v SUI
St James’ Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/st-james-park), Newcastle


19:45
1st Round Group C
BLR v NZL
City of Coventry Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/city-of-coventry-stadium), Coventry


19:45
1st Round Group C
BRA v EGY
Millennium Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/millennium-stadium), Cardiff


20:00
1st Round Group A
GBR v SEN
Old Trafford (http://www.london2012.com/venue/old-trafford), Manchester

[davech]

1-1 in the GB v Senegal match. Shame, as that might be GB's only chance to record a win. Hopefully they can keep improving - at the moment they still look a bit like a scratch team that has been put together at the last minute.

Craig Bellamy got a bit of stick from the crowd (because he plays for Liverpool), but it was nice to see that he won them over in the end.

[KnightOwl]

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Saturday 28th July
Women's Football




Kick-Off
Round
Match
Venue


12:00
1st Round Group F
Japan v Sweden
City of Coventry Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/city-of-coventry-stadium), Coventry


14:30
1st Round Group E
New Zealand v Brazil
Millennium Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/millennium-stadium), Cardiff


14:45
1st Round Group F
Canada v South Africa
City of Coventry Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/city-of-coventry-stadium), Coventry


17:00
1st Round Group G
United States v Colombia
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park), Glasgow


17:15
1st Round Group E
Great Britain v Cameroon
Millennium Stadium (http://www.london2012.com/venue/millennium-stadium), Cardiff


19:45
1st Round Group G
France v North Korea
Hampden Park (http://www.london2012.com/venue/hampden-park), Glasgow

[davech]

GB 3 - UAE 1

Never in doubt. Ahem.

[KnightOwl]

Great Britain's women take on Brazil this evening in their final match of the group stage. The kick-off is 19:45 at Wembley (http://www.london2012.com/venue/wembley-stadium), and will determine which of the two teams will top the group.

[Hawkeye]

GB 1-0 up after only 2 minutes.

[KnightOwl]

Fantastic result for Team GB, beating Brazil 1-0 to top the group - and without a single goal conceded in the group stage :)

[KnightOwl]

Woop! Just bought tickets for the Team GB women's QF against Canada at the City of Coventry Stadium on Friday evening!

[RoastLamb]

Woop! Just bought tickets for the Team GB women's QF against Canada at the City of Coventry Stadium on Friday evening!

Cool! You can cheer on Team Canada for me then. ;)

[KnightOwl]

Ummm.... :big grin:

[KnightOwl]

FOOTBALL (19:45-21:30): Team GB in women's quarter-finals

Britain's women take on Canada for a place in the semi-finals at the City of Coventry Stadium. Prior to that Sweden face France, the United States play New Zealand and Brazil line up against Japan in the other last-eight clashes.
Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 7 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19094679) page.

Dave & I are going to this, so hoping for a good result - we'll be cheering on our girls regardless though :)

[Lizzim]

Quote from BBC Sport Olympics Day 7 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19094679) page.

Dave & I are going to this, so hoping for a good result - we'll be cheering on our girls regardless though :)

Hopefully you won't have terrible queues like we had at Cardiff!

[KnightOwl]

We're going to head over there pretty early, just to be sure, but thanks for the warning!

[davech]

Hopefully you won't have terrible queues like we had at Cardiff!

How early did you arrive?

[Lizzim]

How early did you arrive?

We were there about an hour before....security was a pain cos of the whole plastic bag thing....but the worst queues were for food and drink....!

[Sallydaisy]

Canada have scored and lead GBR 1-0.

[RoastLamb]

Canada leads 2-0 now. Have it on the tv but can't say I'm watching it really.

[ljs]

sorry forum friends but yayyyyyyyyyyyyy :lol:

[KnightOwl]

:p

We'll let you off ljs, but only cos we're 25 places further up the medal table than Canada ;)

The atmosphere at the match was fantastic - but the British girls never quite seemed to get it together, and Canada were too good on the night. Well played!

[-J-]

sorry forum friends but yayyyyyyyyyyyyy :lol:that's ok. Not like its real football

[Sallydaisy]

Football (Mens) highlights today - from the BBC:

FOOTBALL (19:45-21:30): GB men (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/athletes?country=great-britain&sports=football&gender=m&filter=Filter&isOneToWatch=0&isMedallist=0)
Stuart Pearce's team won their group to earn a quarter-final against South Korea at the Millennium Stadium as Great Britain bid to win a first Olympic football medal since 1912.

[KnightOwl]

After 1-1 at full time, and no goals in extra time - GB are now in a penalty shoot-out!

[traveller7]

Argh hate shoot outs!

[davech]

3-3 on penalties. It's going with serve so far.

[davech]

4-3 gb

4-4

Keeper saves - GB miss.

It's over. Korea go through.

[traveller7]

4 all please let korea miss once come on

[rondun]

Muppet.
I had a ticket for this too. Kinda glad I couldn't make it now

[Sallydaisy]

GB missed one. and Korea didn't.
Looks like Korea have won.

[Lizzim]

Out on penalties again!

[KnightOwl]

Aaargh! So it's not just England that struggle with penalty shoot-outs, it's Great Britain too :crying:

[traveller7]

Why do we always lose on penalties?!
Poor sturrige :(

[-J-]

oops sank by a Celtic player too

[-J-]

Why do we always lose on penalties?!
Poor sturrige :(? First time Britain have lost in penalties to my knowledge

[traveller7]

? First time Britain have lost in penalties to my knowledge

I mean generally in football!

[Hawkeye]

Stuttered run-up = asking for it.

[KnightOwl]

I mean generally in football!

Generally in football?

I think you'll find that's 50% ;)

[-J-]

:lol:
Generally in football?

I think you'll find that's 50% ;)

[rondun]

Stuttered run-up = asking for it.Does my head in- they should make a one smooth run up rule

[Hawkeye]

Canada leading the USA 1-0 at half-time as they play for the right to face Japan in the final of the womens' tournament.

[RoastLamb]

That was a great goal too! Pretty impressed with our team.

[RoastLamb]

USA scores. 1-1. :sad:

[Hawkeye]

Canada now 3-2 up! What a game!

[RoastLamb]

So unfair! USA had three lousy goals and we had three excellent ones. Bummer.

[Hawkeye]

USA snatch it right at the death.

[rondun]

It's ok they can still pull it back in the 3rd quarter...

[RoastLamb]

Heartbreaking loss for us but I thought we did really well overall. USA played better in extra time. Hopefully we can still win the bronze.

[RoastLamb]

So happy that Canada won the bronze medal. Some consolation at least. Their coach is a geordie dude called John Herdman. I think he's really turned around the team. Excellent job!

[davech]

So happy that Canada won the bronze medal. Some consolation at least. Their coach is a geordie dude called John Herdman. I think he's really turned around the team. Excellent job!

He was certainly very animated in the match we went to - he was jumping around hugging everyone when Canada beat GB!

Well done for winning bronze. :)

[ljs]

Im proud of them for diggin deep to win that bronze medal !!!! Totally got robbed against the USA

[RoastLamb]

They really did dig deep, didn't they? Good stuff.