The Football.....

[roubaixtuesday]

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

@jowwy I feel your pain at your team being knocked out.

I suggest, in the same way you transplanted your club football persona to Liverpool, you could do the same for your national persona too, and simply come out as English.

Then you'd be able to declare the national side as "best side ever", without irony. Imagine the pleasure!

[warning: Past results are an excellent guide to future ones. Supporting England carries a serial risk of hope being followed by crushing disappointment]

 

[jowwy]

@jowwy I feel your pain at your team being knocked out.

I suggest, in the same way you transplanted your club football persona to Liverpool, you could do the same for your national persona too, and simply come out as English.

Then you'd be able to declare the national side as "best side ever", without irony. Imagine the pleasure!

[warning: Past results are an excellent guide to future ones. Supporting England carries a serial risk of hope being followed by crushing disappointment]

im as much english as you are scottish....so theres no chance of me changing my allegiance from my country of birth to the country just over the border i'm afraid

 

[Grant Fondo]

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.

Both really special imo but imagine what viewing figures were for TdF stage 4 v the Eng game?
To be honest I choked up more when the Manx Missile flew over the line .....

 

[jowwy]

"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!

thats just from one report.....have you seen skysports today , its full of english hyperbowl.....just cause you found 1 report that wants people to calm down, it doesnt turn away from the fact, that english fans and media are full of shite and self entitlement.

I mean even the song " its coming home" is enough to make the average fan sick to the back teeth

 

[vickster]

im as much english as you are scottish....so theres no chance of me changing my allegiance from my country of birth to the country just over the border i'm afraid

What’s wrong with supporting Cardiff or Swansea or Newport then?
As opposed to the team just over the border?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Incidentally, I'm just back from visiting a factory. Half the workforce are in self isolation (about 40 people) because 7 guys went to Wembley for the England Scotland game and all 7 came back testing positive for Covid.

 

[jowwy]

What’s wrong with supporting Cardiff or Swansea or Newport then?
As opposed to the team just over the border?

cause when i started watching football back in the very early 80s, those teams were not shown on Tv and being a young child i supported a team that i was able to watch week in week out, on my 3 chanel TV...........but which football pyramid do swansea, cardiff, newport play in, may i ask???

ah yes the english pyramind, therefore i would have still supported a team playing in the english league's. But don't let that little but of information spoil your day

 

[matticus]

I mean even the song " its coming home" is enough to make the average fan sick to the back teeth

Three Lions on the Shirt ...

 

[jowwy]

Incidentally, I'm just back from visiting a factory. Half the workforce are in self isolation (about 40 people) because 7 guys went to Wembley for the England Scotland game and all 7 came back testing positive for Covid.

yup......english fans, bringing covid to a town near you soon. you could see the lack of masks and social distancing last night during the news reports and nothing at all was mentioned about it from the worlds media.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I mean even the song " its coming home" is enough to make the average fan sick to the back teeth

Specially for you, so you can join in next time:

It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home

Everyone seems to know the score
They've seen it all before
They just know
They're so sure

That England's gonna throw it away
Gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
'Cause I remember

Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

So many jokes, so many sneers
But all those oh-so-nears
Wear you down
Through the years

But I still see that tackle by Moore
And when Linekar scored
Bobby belting the ball
And Nobby Dancing

Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

(What a save, Gordon Banks!
(Good old England, England that couldn't play football)
(England have got it in the bag)
I know that was then but it could be again

It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home

I hate all the hype, but I have to say that's a class song and the lyrics are far from jingoistic - self deprecating if anything.

I'm sure you'll have an English grandma or summat.

Come over to the dark side!

 

[matticus]

Incidentally, I'm just back from visiting a factory. Half the workforce are in self isolation (about 40 people) because 7 guys went to Wembley for the England Scotland game and all 7 came back testing positive for Covid.

That's awful.

I bet it wouldn't have happened in the Ukraine

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

That's awful.

I bet it wouldn't have happened in the Ukraine

You wouldn't hear about it. There would be a total news blackout on covid cases arising from spectators at footb... oh.

 

[jowwy]

Specially for you, so you can join in next time:

It's coming home
It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home

Everyone seems to know the score
They've seen it all before
They just know
They're so sure

That England's gonna throw it away
Gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
'Cause I remember

Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

So many jokes, so many sneers
But all those oh-so-nears
Wear you down
Through the years

But I still see that tackle by Moore
And when Linekar scored
Bobby belting the ball
And Nobby Dancing

Three Lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming

(What a save, Gordon Banks!
(Good old England, England that couldn't play football)
(England have got it in the bag)
I know that was then but it could be again

It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home

I hate all the hype, but I have to say that's a class song and the lyrics are far from jingoistic - self deprecating if anything.

I'm sure you'll have an English grandma or summat.

Come over to the dark side!

nope all my family are welsh born and bred.....and most of my older family are either pit workers or soldiers in the army

 

[roubaixtuesday]

ah yes the english pyramind

Other pyramids are available.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymru_Premier

 

[jowwy]

Other pyramids are available.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymru_Premier

and when did that pyramid form???? ah yes 1992.....i think cardiff, swansea and newport were around and playing in the english pyramid long before then and didnt want to switch the welsh pyramid when it was formed.