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Please stop. Tired of your fake patriotism. England beat Spain on penalties in Euro 96. I know because I was there. Who will you be supporting in the semi-final if it is England v Russia? https://t.co/eUg1JxiNQ1
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you just couldn't make remainers up
I will do a Kevin Keegan , I would love it if England won the world cup.
I was to young to remember 66.
Shed a tear last last night , when we at last won a penalty shoot out.
Just because some twat does a tweet , you make that assumption .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
might not be the same batch.
You are a disgrace abusing your own citizens on am assumption from some no mark tweet.
This is reminiscent of religious fanaticism. They know they're right. Whatever.
It's contagious. exempli gratia Trump supporters.
I imagine the vast majority will just enjoy the games and pay little attention to political point scoring related to it other than those who already care.
England otoh always seems to be a rice pudding skin (or penalty shoot out) away from swagger.
http://www.itv.com/news/2018-07-04/anti-terror-police-join-probe-after-couple-taken-ill-near-site-of-spy-poisoning/
Is Salisbury the home of the deep establishment?
https://twitter.com/PA/status/1014611469894287366
England will have to play their best game of the tournament to beat them.
Though English club teams still continue to have an excellent record whilst Scottish ones are now as embarrassing as their national team.
You no longer get top Scottish players in large numbers at the top English clubs as in the days when Leeds, Liverpool, Forest and MU dominated European competitions.
Taking nothing for granted, Sweden have always given us a tough game, feel like I've mostly watched us draw against them previously, I'd be delighted with a 1-0 win scraped at the last second. I'd be shocked if it is anything but a tough game.
Unless they were living a double life - Unemployed drug users by day. KGB spies and operatives by night...
Looking at them though you wouldn't exactly have them down as Branjelina would you?
The only good news it that this may well give the police a useful new line of enquiry for determining the movements of the person who carried out the initial attack.
For England to win, alli and sterling have to play incredibly well and stones in particular not make any mistakes.
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Perthshire
Fife
Lancashire
Staffordshire
Cambridgeshire
Kent
Other minor points of interest was that there four sources of British blackberries and Cornwall made an appearance providing blueberries.
No evidence yet of the talked about lettuce shortage either.
But probably better than it ending up in the (protected) hands of someone who would like to knock off a few people.
England are quite capable of playing much better than thay have to date. Who knows whether they will though - unpredictability is what makes football such a great sport.
Fingers-crossed though, we should do it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44694122
However their defender (Vida) has the worst World Cup haircut*, on that grounds alone they should go home!
*Trippier is a close second.
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No doubt we will be engaged in another dispute with Russia - all we need is for a World Cup semi final match to pour fuel on the flames. The English fans seem to be getting on OK with their Russian hosts so far.
Plus also in the enlightenment and in scientific development / technical inventions.
But how many of these great Scots would have amounted to anything if Scotland had remained an impoverished little country at the edge of civilisation ?
Look at today. One MP set up an attack for May by saying that Jezza would not attend Armed Forces Day next year and she completely ignored it.
Never underestimate how much luck affects a single match.
Over a full season it tends to equal out but to win the WC you need to get it at the right time.
For example I've never seen a goal quite like Germany's goal in the 1990 semi-final.
It must greatly diminish one’s life to view even football through a political lense.
And, unlike with the Litvenenko murder, we haven't heard anything about them tracing the perpetrators.
(And you are right, I should just ignore the stupid sodden fuckwit.)
England deserve a bit of luck in a WC.
Could be an England Belgium final.
Have you heard 'Football's Coming Home'? England's most iconic* football song? The subtext of which is 'We're always shit - but maybe this time we won't be'. The tune of which is hope tinged with despair. The song is iconic because it captures the mood of the England supporter brilliantly. Swagger is not really England's thing. Though I can see how it would look it from the point of view of a near-neighbour seeing blanket coverage which assumes we all want to join in. (As a republican listening to reporting of the royal wedding I sort of understand).
Football is ridiculous really. No other sport is so good at engendering a feeling of being hard done by. It's because it's low-scoring: almost any match can be reduced to 'if only...'. And the laws don't really discourage cheating. I can't really watch England play; it's too painful. I'd be delighted if they won of course, but seeing them play is torturous. It is hard to swagger when you're watching through your fingers.
*Most iconic, but not best in my view. That honour belongs to 'World in Motion'.
And the Scots did event the wonderful sport of curling!