England Denmark - Possible Spoilers

[sunny-dave]

Spoliers follow ...

[sunny-dave]

Good grief - anyone who thinks England can "Win the Euros" must want their bumps feeling.

Yet again a mildly competent start, a soft goal to give them confidence and then .... retreat, retreat, retreat and try to hang on for 75 minutes. Unsurprisingly it fails to work against a decent Denmark team.

I don't watch much soccer (as opposed to the excellent Gaelic football) and this is a good example of why - dull hardly covers it.

[sunny-dave]

The pitch seems to have been laid by someone wanting to plant a few spuds at half-time too - a disgrace.

[Patsy33]

My husband is shouting at the TV! I won't tell you what he's saying..He's says they're really poor..I'm exiting  the room, can stand him shouting!.. 😁

[Barmaid]

Mr BM has got bored and gone off to cut his lawn.

[sunny-dave]

I think I may go and wash my gerbil ...

[Old_Geezer]

Same old England team; unfortunately.

[jourdain2]

I'm awfully glad, by the sounds of it, that I was busy writing a story and that Mr. J2 can't stand footie and was catching up on his emails upstairs.

Surely the vast majority of the country isn't glued to the TV, is it?

[Arksided]

Disapointed wasn't the words I thought and bellowed whilst watching it, think the Germans laid that artificial pitch over the decent one underneath as the home team play there on Sunday.

[sddsddean]

If you believe the media j2, they are! Personally I'm waiting for the Tour de France...proper sportsmen who don't give up 'cos they have stubbed their toe!

[brainiac]

Sideways, backwards, sideways, backwards, sideways, backwards.......

[10ClarionSt]

I heard someone on TV say that England were one of the pre-tournament favourites. I just can't figure out how they came to that conclusion.

In the last four games, England have struggled to beat Malta; lost to Iceland; struggled to beat Serbia and crawled over the line for a draw with Denmark. We have some of the best players in Europe, no doubt about that, but they don't seem that bothered about winning to me.

As brainiac says, sideways, backwards, sideways, backwards etc. Having watched England since I was boy in the 1950's, that is how they've always played. The players seem afraid and always have done.

When England won the World Cup, a major factor then was that Alf Ramsey knew what his best team was, but since then I don't think any England manager has had that knowledge, including Southgate. But as I said in a previous thread, it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

This particular tournament has a feel of the World Cup about it to me with all the best teams in the world being there, with the exception of Brazil and Argentina. With that in mind, why does anyone think England will win this tournament?