The Football.....

[Blue Hills]

I don't mind football, but all this over the top reporting is just ridiculous, we have only got through to the next round.

The sporting headline of the day (Cav winning) never made the late night news bulletin.

I can't help but think it is linked to football having been embraced by the middle and professional classes.
The england fans i encountered on the tube weren't badly behaved in general but clearly thought, with some justification, that they had a special pass from society.

 

[Blue Hills]

God help us if they win the corporate contest.
Fans will be farking each other in the streets while breakfast tv smiles indulgently.

 

[matticus]

Good Lord! Do all footballers wear sports bras now?

I have to say, that was the shock of the night for me!

 

[Deleted User]

I'm assuming you all know what they are?

 

[vickster]

I'm assuming you all know what they are?

Yes, I do

 

[matticus]

On the other hand, I might just prefer to promote Ukraine on CC for the next 5 days .

I look forward to this. I fear most of us "Brits" think it's a just a belicose basement of the Soviet Union, prone to infecting our sheep with radioactive clouds, so please enlighten us!

(Your promotion of Germany was pretty feeble, if I may be honest, despite the big speech.)

 

[Beebo]

I'm assuming you all know what they are?

It’s an LGBTQ thing, yeah?

 

[jowwy]

to be honest for the first 75mins the game was absolute shite.....kane was a not in the game, midfield were poor and only a good save from pickford from havertz kept england in the game....Muller missed a sitter at 1 nil and the rest well.....just the usual overhyped english bull

 

[Beebo]

to be honest for the first 75mins the game was absolute shite.....kane was a not in the game, midfield were poor and only a good save from pickford from havertz kept england in the game....Muller missed a sitter at 1 nil and the rest well.....just the usual overhyped english bull

It’s nice to have some balance. It wasn’t as bad as you say but it definitely wasn’t as good as the press are reporting.
We were never going to dominate for 90 mins and at times we are a bit negative, but it’s worked so far.

 

[matticus]

but it definitely wasn’t as good as the press are reporting.

This is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy! "Overhyped England" blah blah ...
So, let's see what the press actually printed today:

"England 2-0 Germany: Three Lions book their place in the quarter finals of Euro 2020 as Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane score to hand Gareth Southgate's side a famous victory at a jubilant Wembley
- England have booked their place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 after a 2-0 win over Germany at Wembley
- Raheem Sterling opened the scoring in the 75th minute with a close-range finish after Luke Shaw's cross
- It was the third goal the Manchester City winger has scored in a superb run of form for the Three Lions
- In a game of very few clear-cut chances, the Germans failed to trouble England's defence for large parts
- Germany striker Thomas Muller was played through on goal but missed the target as he wasted a huge chance
- Harry Kane then made sure of the victory for England when he headed home from close range on 86 minutes

It is done. The mission, accomplished. England have beaten Germany in a knock-out match at a tournament, for the first time since 1966. It is done. The mission, accomplished. England have won – actually won, not just progressed via penalties – a knock-out match at a European Championship tournament for the first time in their history.

But it is not done, of course. The mission is not accomplished. For once these hoodoos were banished, these milestones reached, immediately there were new worlds to conquer. The challenge now is to take it further. To take it beyond the quarter-final in Rome on Saturday. To bring it back to Wembley. To bring it, as the song says, home.

But we’ve got the rest of the week to consider that. First, this. First what is undoubtedly the highpoint of Gareth Southgate’s career as England manager – and he reached a World Cup semi-final three years ago, remember. Yet England have reached semi-finals before, and lost, as they did in Russia in 2018.
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It's Pro-England. It's optimistic. There's a bit of melo-dramatic style. It doesn't represent the view of the typical Scottish fan. So sorry about that.

But does it say they are going to win the thing?? Is it inaccurate? Hmmm

p.s. a gold star for anyone guessing the paper this is from.

 

[jowwy]

This is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy! "Overhyped England" blah blah ...
So, let's see what the press actually printed today:

"England 2-0 Germany: Three Lions book their place in the quarter finals of Euro 2020 as Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane score to hand Gareth Southgate's side a famous victory at a jubilant Wembley
- England have booked their place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 after a 2-0 win over Germany at Wembley
- Raheem Sterling opened the scoring in the 75th minute with a close-range finish after Luke Shaw's cross
- It was the third goal the Manchester City winger has scored in a superb run of form for the Three Lions
- In a game of very few clear-cut chances, the Germans failed to trouble England's defence for large parts
- Germany striker Thomas Muller was played through on goal but missed the target as he wasted a huge chance
- Harry Kane then made sure of the victory for England when he headed home from close range on 86 minutes

It is done. The mission, accomplished. England have beaten Germany in a knock-out match at a tournament, for the first time since 1966. It is done. The mission, accomplished. England have won – actually won, not just progressed via penalties – a knock-out match at a European Championship tournament for the first time in their history.

But it is not done, of course. The mission is not accomplished. For once these hoodoos were banished, these milestones reached, immediately there were new worlds to conquer. The challenge now is to take it further. To take it beyond the quarter-final in Rome on Saturday. To bring it back to Wembley. To bring it, as the song says, home.

But we’ve got the rest of the week to consider that. First, this. First what is undoubtedly the highpoint of Gareth Southgate’s career as England manager – and he reached a World Cup semi-final three years ago, remember. Yet England have reached semi-finals before, and lost, as they did in Russia in 2018.
"
It's Pro-England. It's optimistic. There's a bit of melo-dramatic style. It doesn't represent the view of the typical Scottish fan. So sorry about that.

But does it say they are going to win the thing?? Is it inaccurate? Hmmm

p.s. a gold star for anyone guessing the paper this is from.

yup...over hyped bull

 

[matticus]

Of course - perhaps they did NOT in fact beat Germany!

 

[jowwy]

Of course - perhaps they did NOT in fact beat Germany!

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oh no - they did beat germany, but its still over hyped bull from the media and england fans.......i mean as yet you have only reached the last 8, you got 3 games to play yet and people think it's all over, you have won the euro's, but you have done no better than wales did in 2016, but they did reach the semi finals...and lost to the eventual winners

 

[matticus]

you got 3 games to play yet and people think it's all over, you have won the euro's,

"The challenge now is to take it further. To take it beyond the quarter-final in Rome on Saturday. To bring it back to Wembley. To bring it, as the song says, home.

But we’ve got the rest of the week to consider that. First, this. First what is undoubtedly the highpoint of Gareth Southgate’s career as England manager – and he reached a World Cup semi-final three years ago, remember. Yet England have reached semi-finals before, and lost, as they did in Russia in 2018 "

Keep taking those reading lessons jowwy!

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

to be honest for the first 75mins the game was absolute shite.....kane was a not in the game, midfield were poor and only a good save from pickford from havertz kept england in the game....Muller missed a sitter at 1 nil and the rest well.....just the usual overhyped english bull

I have to agree with you but i don't think it's mostly the supporters but the media.
Even though i was pleased we won i myself cannot stand this c**p from the media.You would have thought we had won the final already.
If we reach the final brilliant but for now i'm keeping a level head and taking every game as it comes.