When I was a naive young kid, I used to love international tournaments and would collect all the Panini stickers and fill out the wall charts religiously; I’d even bunk off school if there were matches being played.
Now that I’m a cynical old git, I see international tournaments for the crass money-making exercises they actually are; I’ll no doubt watch a few matches here and there but I am not too bothered who wins it.
I was hoping we can fly under the radar like Liverpool did at the end of the season but @Neukölln and @Livvy are ruining it by constantly talking about Germany.
Oops i apologize 
Wasn’t aware of our constant postings, this was my first about it tbf.
Well, now you have to live with it! 
Partly it’s because we are now old gits, but partly it is because the football just isn’t very good. The players who play at the highest level spend most of their lives in a very rigid and precisely developed tactical structure and then get thrown together with a bunch of other dudes who play a different way, and they’ve got 3 days to figure out how to develop some sort of cohesion. We tell ourselves it’s good because of the collection of names we see and the historical importance of it, but it’s objectively not good football.
Really looking forward to it now. Bought a couple of wallcharts yesterday. I start a new job on Monday but I don’t know if putting one up at work is an option yet.
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Good choices. I have no actuall favorite so far, my favorite tends to be developed during the group play (the team that ends up charm me the most I will root for). Today I am all for Italy to hopefully smash Erdogan’s boys, though that is for purely cultural and political reasons and not actually because I love Italy 
The Telegraph has published its list of the top fifty players who will be on display at the Euros. It’s very heavily slanted towards England (unsurprisingly) and the Premier League but still makes interesting reading.
Watching the Euro pre-match show, they were showing some amazing goals, free kicks. Pains me that TAA would not be part of Euro2020* and score a cracker or 2 from free kicks for England.
Would be nice to see Portugal win it again and if not, my only hope is that no Liverpool players get injured in this tournament or the COPA.
Super hyped now ! Come on Italy, find it within you to humiliate Turkey some how (in reality Turkey has been very good lately, so it is a very open game, and maybe Turkey will win) !
At least we get an excellent vocalist before it all starts. Opera is not my thing, but I do appreciate good trained voices.
I always enjoy Andrea Bocelli performance.
Why is Bono performing via hologram? Leaving his 2 band mates to fend for themselves. Awkward.
EDIT: or was that entire thing pre-recorded? Maybe I missed that part. 
I just fund the in game thread. Just saying, hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
Thank the stars that we don’t have the droning from vuvuzelas. Remember those terrible headache inducing droning noise pollution for 90 minutes per match?
Really hope this tournament doesn’t disappoint after the disruption of the last few years. The Euros I’ve seen in my lifetime have generally been littered with great moments rather than great games, though maybe that is just typical of the largely defensive nature of international football.
Oh man, Vuvuzela was an god awful thing.
Consider yourself lucky that you’re not in the UK. We’ve got the droning of Jermaine Jenas instead.
I don’t know what feed we are getting, but the commentator is Martin Tyler. There you go.