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England fans - how are you spending your summer?
Last Comment: 07-06-2008 10:37:33 |
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I was chatting with friends last week and one of them asked what I'd got planned this summer. Now; a few months ago I would have happily said I would be watching England get knocked out on penalties in the quarter-finals of Euro but obviously the famous 3-2 game has put paid to that. I've suddenly got a summer off from football according to my wife.
Even though we're not in the tournament this year I'm still going to watch as many games as I can - not easy being 9 hours behind the tournament time zone - but the big question now is who the hell do I support? It's odd; being a Blades fan I'm not used to supporting a winning team so I could decide to support someone like France or Italy and experience the pleasure that supporting a successful team brings. Alternatively I could plump for a team which is going to see Euro as a challenge to get something out of it and ride their rollercoaster but that doesn't sound like too much fun.
My fall-back option is to support the country of my wife; Germany but that... feels... odd :)
What do you think I should do? What are you going to do?
Even though we're not in the tournament this year I'm still going to watch as many games as I can - not easy being 9 hours behind the tournament time zone - but the big question now is who the hell do I support? It's odd; being a Blades fan I'm not used to supporting a winning team so I could decide to support someone like France or Italy and experience the pleasure that supporting a successful team brings. Alternatively I could plump for a team which is going to see Euro as a challenge to get something out of it and ride their rollercoaster but that doesn't sound like too much fun.
My fall-back option is to support the country of my wife; Germany but that... feels... odd :)
What do you think I should do? What are you going to do?
Oh, a happy belated St George's Day to everyone!
I have a huge affection for both Croatia and Russia. Their philosophy is to play football and to be technical, neither of these teams possess big strong players like you would find in England, so I'll be supporting them throughout the tournament, irrespective of the fact I can't see either winning; especially as Russia's star player Arshavin will miss the first two games.
Also: I believe Modric is probably Croatia's main asset over Eduardo... but still a huge miss for them.
The last time we weren't in the big tournament was the 1994 World Cup in the US. I was gutted but still watched every game; there were some fantastic games that year which was good since they were so late at night for the UK tv audience.
I tried to look for Blades players with a link to Euro but can't find any so they didn't give me any guidance.
A tricky one.
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