Just To Backtrack On Wales......

[10ClarionSt]

.....cos I haven't been on here this week. I thought they were extremely fortunate to get as far as they did. They got battered in every game they played with nine Englishmen in their team, which might explain it! Everyone I knew had tears in their eyes when they lost - tears of laughter. Lovin' it!

[-Talbot-]

♫ I am, I said ♪

[anneasquith]

Iceland were my favourite team. LOL.

[jubieanna]

Anne. This made me smile :)

[anneasquith]

I know J a great reception or them -:)

[Bertrum]

We will rock you

[gness]

Bet Anne can guess which team I was cheering on.......☺

[ChillDoubt]

Resultswise, yes. Performances? Wales were poor and rode their luck.
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Now strangely, that's EXACTLY how it is for every single team that ever plays football! Regardless of player performances, substitutions, poor refereeing decisions, how many times they hit the woodwork etc the only stats that stick out and stand up are in the W, L and D columns.
How odd, eh?!?!
Still, I enjoy posts from sore losers. Please do carry on, 10C......

[ChillDoubt]

Luckily, we never took ourselves too seriously and enjoyed every minute, probably why we were so highly praised:

http://rabona.tribuna.com/en/989519/

If only England could have been the same and actually played for their shirts, eh 10C?

[jubieanna]

If Portugal win in the final do you think the Portuguese will be saying 'let's not celebrate because they only went through the group stage by the skin of their teeth with 3 draws'

I doubt it very much.

[anneasquith]

G was it Russia ?

[melv16]

If only the England team had a coach like Eddie Jones. He's transformed the England rugby team... A man who says what he sees, I bet the players don't mess him about !

[stuey]

Some cynic, perhaps with tongue in cheek, once described the Olympic Medals in this manner: Gold!! Great, you're the best; Silver! Not too shabby, only one person beat you; Bronze? Well I guess you're the first of the losers.

[Baldric]

///They weren't even battered by Portugal, just marginally outclassed///

Er, yeh 2 - 0 that's a thrashing in my book, no kudos in coming second in a match afterall.

[gness]

Indeed it was, Anne........♣☺♣

[ChillDoubt]

So to summarise.....
We lost to the eventual winners and got Goal of the Tournament on BBC.

Extremely fortunate indeed....

[Mamyalynne]

Hurrah !! Sip!