Had (well, still have) tickets for Germany/France (Munich), Austria v Netherlands (Amsterdam) and ofc the DiS boys Bucharest fixture. Huge shame obv. Had all the sleeper trains and that booked too. Anyone want to buy 200 euros worth of Austrian train vouchers hmu
I didn’t have tickets for this one as the group games are (or were going to be) in Rome (which I don’t particularly like) and Baku (too far/expensive to get to). I was going to wait and see where they were going to play after the group stage, tbh.
I hope that restrictions are lifted enough for me to throw some full pints at strangers when England score a goal. Otherwise what’s the fucking point, frankly.
Voting with my heart here, I’d love to see Mancini get an international trophy. They seem defensively solid (3 conceded in the last 15) but could probably do with Immobile or Belotti having one of their hot streaks.
The asymmetrical format of the last Euros fucked it a bit with three teams going through some of the groups. Not enough jeapordy and too many games played to not knock many teams out. Good job the WC is being expanded to bring it into asymmetric line. It is good that it brings new nations to the party though.
Think that’s roughly right, I’m annoyed thinking about that again. The group with France, Germany and Portugal in this year sounds brilliant but they’ll almost certainly all go through.
Really winds me up. 16 teams, 4 groups of 4, knockout round of 8. It’s simple. If you’re going to expand, go to 32 teams or fuck off. The 48 team World Cup with groups of 3 is going to be such a nonsense.