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  2. Usual garbage.

    They won one knockout game against a team ranked nineteenth in the world, after being incapable of beating the USA.

    Probably get knighthoods.

    • Likewise. Ten years of aversion therapy at school made sure of that. The sadistic bastards just couldn’t accept that not everyone likes it and let it go.

        • Yep, me as well. All the sports shite I was forced to do at school I have zero interest in, in fact I would rather shave my balls with a rusty knife!

          • Ditto. I hated all the PE lessons I had to endure all those years at school.

            On the subject of the England team, I’m glad these virtue-signalling idiots were beaten. I caught the start of their games against the USA and France. England, of course, ‘took the knee’, while neither the USA nor France did. Good for the American and French teams for not joining in with that virtue-signalling bollocks.

        • The excuse was that it was good for us. Nope. I was already fit with my cycling. I was an active archer and judoka, so had no need for PE lessons and I certainly did not need football to teach me anything about teamwork, so it was just unthinking sadism on their part. The result is a visceral, lifelong loathing of it, when I could have been merely disinterested.

  4. Heroes? Reminds me of well over 60 years ago, on my first (of many) long trips in the Malayan jungle with a number 5 rifle. I served with some heroes, and their memory is defiled by footballers described as such. Similarly, I am deeply offended by nurses “on the front line”. etc. etc.

    • Keith Miller, the great Australian cricketer, who flew a Mosquito during the war, was once asked about pressure on the field. “I’ll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.”

  5. And they have probably been extremly well (over?) paid for all this. Their wives/girlfriends/whatevers have been kept amused for the duration and then there’s the private jets both ways…
    I wonder what the TOTAL bill will be for entry fees, hotels, entertainment, bungs, transport and players’ pay?

  6. If I want to watch a football match (doesn’t happen very often, I will admit, but sometimes I get bored), a walk to the local park on a Sunday morning will allow me to watch two pub teams playing, many with hangovers, I believe. They play for their enjoyment of the game, and the social life that follows on, which makes watching them more enjoyable, and it’s free.

    • “The details released by Belgian authorities in the last few days left many people’s jaws on the floor.”

      Mine was not among them. The only surprise is that there isn’t more of the buggers involved. If you tried to design a system amenable to corruption, you’d be hard-pushed to do a better job than the EU.

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