Eight easy qualification games then eliminated in the tournament proper when the real teams turn up.
Mind you they might struggle tonight.
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Eight easy qualification games then eliminated in the tournament proper when the real teams turn up.
Mind you they might struggle tonight.
Great post. Glad you took the time to produce it. Excellent stuff.
I would never support England in football, Nick.
What about me, Nick?
Germany are 1-0 down at home to North Macedonia!
I cannot bear ITV's football commentary.
They must have one of the best qualifying records of any team, but as the OP has said, as soon as the business end arrives, you can here their bottle crash!
I wouldn't rub an English football defeat in the nose of my English friends .......the general Welsh public do though even though most English people couldn't give a toss about rugby ........but I do have a chuckle when a footballing minnow turns them over
Happily cheer them on , I'm British after all , with an English born mum and strong connections to them .
When Wales play them I cheer for the Dragons .
Always found a falsehood in some supporters cheering Premiership sides from the sofa, whist claiming they dislike England.
What about the England and Wales cricket board who play under the name of “England”?
Never quite understood why you'll get some real ardent anti England football/Rugby fans in Wales but then they'll get behind a team that outwardly disrespects us by not even bothering to acknowledge on their shirt or pretty much anywhere else that they represent England AND Wales, that's a massive slap in the face which people seem happy to overlook. No thank you. Anyone but England.
I did support England in the 1966 and 1970 World Cups, and 1968 European Championship. But after that I stopped. I was obviously a Wales fan too, but enjoyed watching the England team then, and the fans weren't as bad, nor was the media hype about them. In 1966 I don't think they expected to win the World Cup and and were grateful they had, and there were Union Flags everywhere.
Nowadays I only watch Wales and not the other Home Nations on TV at all. I just take a passing interest in their results. At the moment Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are poor and England above average. I will support England at cricket though.
As you know, any Glamorgan players good enough can be selected to play for England. Hence my statement- and I would never support England in any other sport. When an English person represents Great Britain in a sport that interests me like athletics or gymnastics; then that person I readily admit to supporting.
It's more the English media I dislike rather than the England teams themselves (although that may not be true with the England rugby team, which exudes arrogance at times).
I know the newspapers themselves cater for more English readers than the rest of the home nations but it is galling when there is more coverage on an England under-21 game than a Wales world cup qualifier.
I could go on but it's been done to death so I'll stop here !
Some of this, I think, is a natural result of just growing older. I remember the 1970 World Cup so well. I was 13, a John Toshack devotee, a regular in the Grange End, and completely committed to England's World Cup team. That loss to Brazil was heartbreaking, not to mention that devastating 3-2 loss to West Germany after leading 2-0. But time passes. About five generations of footballers have passed under the bridge since then, and, well, the passions and commitments of a 13-year-old are hard to sustain. I have, on occasion, found myself feeling faintly ridiculous for caring which group of grown men is more able to push a ball over a white line. That's when I slap myself and quickly regain my senses.
I wish England success. But, no, I don't have nearly the interest in this latest crop as I did for the Banks-Moore-Charlton era.
The ‘66 World Cup did grip the UK, not just England, well it did in my little world. I was rooting for them as were all my mates, 11 years old and football mad, games live on telly and played at ‘our’ grounds, what wasn’t to like. Saying that though about rooting for them, looking back I do remember having a vague memory of me wanting Portugal to beat them in the semi final and in the myriad of posters and wall charts that were about I’d filled in one in advance of the semis having Portugal to beat West Germany in the final. May have been a Eusebio thing, he’d had a great World Cup and certainly left an impression on the young me. I’ve spent the majority of the years since wishing my Portugal prediction had come true :hehe:
I was 9 years old in 1966, and I have just one memory of that tournament: My dad, falling to his knees with his head in his hands when Germany equalized in the dying moments. I think I was more into Crackerjack at that stage of life, laughing at Peter Glaze's inability to get out of the way of a squirty flower.