Euro 2024 Tournament - Open Article
Scotland
Indeed, not only did Scotland fail to exceed their normal
levels, they did the opposite and under-performed.
Three shots on target in the entire tournament? With just 17
shots of any description across all three matches?
There was weeping and gnashing of teeth in the streets of Kirkcudbright.
England
Meantime. England are through to the knockout stages with a game to
spare.
Happy Jack will be removing his England flag from the front of the house this evening with all the disgruntled Jocks likely to be roaming the streets supporting Slovenia.
Let me check if I have this right: football is our 'national game', but Wales didn't qualify, Scotland 'underperformed' and got kicked out, and England struggled to a 'thrilling' 0-0 draw against a team that's only ever qualified for an international tournament four times?
ReplyDeleteYou omitted Northern Ireland. "Nation" being the constitutive countries forming the United Kingdom.
ReplyDeleteEngland are pacing themselves for the knockout stages.
They ought to win 12-0 then, with that amount of saving themselves up... 😂
DeleteNext game England 2 - 0 Opponents
DeletePlace your bet now!
Not just now, what with the Betting Commission sniffing around...🤫
DeleteWith all that's going on in the world the media become obsessed with this!
DeleteI haven’t been following the Euros so far, there are too many countries to keep track of, but now that the knockout rounds are about to begin I’ll make an effort to pay more attention. I see that England are due to play on Sunday but we don’t yet know who their opponents will be, is that right? When will we know?
ReplyDeleteYes, 5pm on Sunday. We will know tonight who England will play. It's looking like it will be Holland.
DeleteThe clockwork orange! That's going to be tough, if they're up to their usual standard this year.
DeleteWe now know it's to be Slovakia! Should be a stroll in the park.
DeleteWhen England win, they'll then face either Italy or Switzerland in the semi-final.
Should be a stroll in the park.
DeleteJust like it was against Slovenia...
One must remain positive ....
DeleteI am positive. It'll all be over soon! 😄
Delete@Lain LOL
Delete@ Lain
DeleteThere's a few more games to play yet ...
@Clive
Please don't encourage her!
Yup, here they all are:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.uefa.com/euro2024/news/028e-1b3a28e9f934-2ce2b8cb3bbe-1000--euro-2024-round-of-16-fixtures-confirmed/
Starting in a few minutes, Switzerland v Italy.
DeleteAnd then, later this evening, Argentina v Peru in the Copa America.
Switzerland beat Italy 2-0. I was never expecting a result like that. Are Italy a team in decline? Are Switzerland a stronger team than I thought? Maybe I'm just out of touch with recent developments in Europe ...
DeleteItaly are a young team in development. Even so, it was a surprising result. Switzerland are a good team and England will play them if they beat Slovakia.
DeleteThe second goal looked offside to me ⚽️
DeleteCould you explain the offside rule?
DeleteNobody can explain the offside rule.
Delete@ Jack
DeleteYes.
Halftime score 1-0. Comments?
ReplyDeleteThey need to score more goals.
DeleteJude Bellingham heard that.
DeleteHello Jack. Satisfied with the result?
ReplyDeleteStroll in the park, as predicted. Bring on the Swiss.
DeleteMore like a scramble.
DeletePart of the game plan!
DeleteSo England won. Just means that the torture will go on for longer.
ReplyDeleteI hate football 😭
I've always thought that football is to men what a full moon is to werewolves: they suddenly start acting weird and making strange noises until it's over.
DeleteI'm glad to know at least one man who's immune!
He's Scottish.
DeleteWell, nobody's perfect 😎
DeleteWell actually genetically I'm much more complicated than that. I have French (Hugenout), Norman, English, Scottish and Irish in my make up.
DeleteNo Japanese however.
What's interesting is the recent phenomena of women football fans behaving in loutish ways like men.
Delete@ Clive No Japanese however. - as I said, nobody's perfect 😊
Delete@ Jack - that's modern feminism for you; it saw the worst of male behaviour and decided that's how women should behave. Same with work habits, binge drinking, promiscuity. It's a race to the gutter.
Obviously, as a slightly tomboyish young girl, I, too dreamed of scoring the winning goal at Wimbledon, but I grew out of it.