#211

I love Wimbledon but always find it hard to get as excited about it when there’s a football tournament on, just can’t compete with it as a spectacle

Barty Kerber has been great though

#212

Both times this has been posted my initial reaction has been ‘they’ve got Justin’s name wrong’

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#213

I just read through this whole thread in case it had already been posted, and must have missed it.

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#215

There’s 20+ other threads to read (it was posted in yesterday’s thread)

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New profile pic to celebrate my rich Italian heritage

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Euro 2020: THE FINAL - Fallout of the Not-Homecoming
#217

Interesting article from The Quietus on all of this caper…

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#218

I remember so little about the tournament other than the last England match now :frowning:

There was match where Holland were good and it was very exciting

The bit where I turned it off and Belgium beat France.

The bit where Gareth Bale walked off in a strop.

Tragic Eriksen collapse.

That’s about all I can remember

#219

Tim is a goodun

#220

Really want to eat this pizza

#221

can’t really stress enough times how the england players being nice is never the issue

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#222

What is the issue though? Do you think it’s simply success that people are responding to?

#223

endlessly having to qualify not supporting england is part of it, honestly
oh think I misread this, if you mean why DO people support England, I’d put it down to tiredness or something

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#226

I’m bored. Let’s restart the tournament.

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#227

Yeah, that’s what I meant. In broad terms Grace Blakely in an England shirt is definitely a change of cultural emphasis.

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#228

yeah, tiredness, sweet anaesthesia

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#229

Not going to lie, I had to Google her. Then I got bored, but not before I noticed that she’s half Welsh. @Ruffers get her!

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#230

Just a hypothesis this, but is part of it perhaps that taken as a whole, the English nation is just a teensy bit bored of the whole “X years of hurt” thing, and would quite like to just tick that one off so they can go about their normal business? Kind of like when no British man had won the Wimbledon title for a hundred years, and then Murray did it and everyone went “finally, thank fuck for that” and went back to watching I dunno rugby or something?