Euros - Love Or Loathe?

[Maydup]

We love the major sporting events and are looking forward to the Euros (Football) starting later this week, and excited about the Olympics next month.  

We don't go in for the merchandise and not great ones for flag waving or gathering in pub gardens  but we have our wall chart at the ready to follow all the “ifs” and “buts”! 

The only aspect I dislike about international football is hearing the “it’s coming home” repeatedly! I hope it is but if it’s not then lose early 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 and let us enjoy the rest of the tournament.

Do you love it or loathe it? 

[Lie-in King]

Certainly looking forward to it, yes, I'll watch as many matches as I can.

[andres]

Loathe.

[Neveracrossword]

As a non-footballing person, I thought the topic was going to be euros, currency!

Although I am not a fan, I like the idea of an event joining people together - and I like seeing the happy (and well-behaved) supporters in various places.

[Buenchico]

Although I've refereed countless local league football matches, as well as running school teams, etc, and getting involved in the game in other ways, I've never enjoyed football as a spectator sport. It simply doesn't interest me at all.

However, as I hardly ever watch any telly anyway (typically just an hour or two each month), I won't be one of the people complaining about football filling our TV screens for weeks on end either!

[Ken4155]

A friend of mine works at Warburtons and someone there has devised a competition for Euro '24 in which the correct scores of EVERY first round match has to be predicted, the last 16 teams, then 8, then 4, then the finalists and eventual winners. 

In addition, the top individual scorer and top scoring team have also to be predicted. Of course, my friend suggested i join him with the £10 entry fee and that i should be the one to get the slide rule and protractor out for the predictions😵

Sadly for England fans (myself included) and anyone who has backed them at the ridiculous odds (IMHO) of 3/1 favs, i have us to fall to Italy in the 1/4 finals - possibly on Pens 😭

I also have France to beat the host nation Germany in the final, with Mbappe the top scorer. I will, of course, watch as many games as i possibly can.

[drmorgans]

 

Like Richy I will be supporting Wales at the Euros!

 

[Ken4155]

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[Maydup]

The Warburtons mass sweepstake sounds like fun Ken.

I was gobsmaked to see the price for England to win. My tenpenneth is on France to win with a boasted bet at Bet365. 

[jourdain2]

They give me an opportunity to get on with my writing and organ practice. 

Sadly, when I stop to do essential chores like cooking, the d***ed footie is still everywhere.

[10ClarionSt]

Yes, it's coming home again isn't it? The England fans hype themselves up not realising, or refusing to realise, that England aren't as good as people think they are. They'll give anyone a good game, no doubt about that, but they aint winners. Sorry folks. I hope I'm wrong, but in recent games they struggled against Malta and lost to Iceland. Euro champs, or potential champs, just don't do that. They might make it out of the group, but I think that's it. 

[Old_Geezer]

Oh, thought you were referring to currency.

 

Ah... a sporting event is a sporting event. No reason to love or loathe. Good luck to whatever team we have competing.

 

Oh; and it's coming home, apparently.

[Ken4155]

Maydup, i'm also on France to win it with 365. 

[Maydup]

Just had a go at the Fantasy Team on 365 - if I'm lucky I might win a free bet!