I think most have been impressed by Italy mate but as ive said for a while now, our squad is the best in this tournament. Narrow it down to a starting 11 and things start to even out a tad. Expand to 23 and we start to see real quality. Rashford, Foden, Grealish, Sancho, Henderson, are just 5 names ive picked that would have walked into the Denmark starting 11, the team we met in the semis, highlighting our quality in depth.
The two best defences in the tournament suggests a cagey match with few chances. The best thing that could happen would be an early England goal to open the game up and give us some counter-attacking opportunities. I hope we don't end up failing because we weren't brave enough to trust our best attacking players...
Just been reading about some of the abuse the Danes were receiving during and after the game. I personally dont recall witnessing anything but one of my pals has confirmed it today. A group of grown men, surrounding 3 danish fans (2 women) and shouting and dancing in front of them, not letting them move. Quite disgusting really.
There was an incident reported on TV where a family of Danish supporters (husband, wife, daughter) were confronted by some England fans and the man ended up being punched in the stomach. It's this kind of stuff, along with the booing of national anthems and general ****ish behaviour which takes the edge off the enjoyment for me. These ****s don't deserve an England win.
It really isnt pleasent, these were grown men, probably fathers and husbands themselves. Wish they could be named and shamed for the cowardly twats they are!
There’s always some bullies in the England support mate, been like it for years. Reminds me of when we played in Rome 1997 when Paul Ince got bloody and battered……The city was made a ‘dry zone’ and alcohol was forbidden. There was a group of about 15 of us, good lads, and we found a little bar run by an old fella and his Mrs who really looked after us……giving us alcohol in tea cups and scattering non alcoholic beer cans about so that if the OB came in we’d be ok…..even serving up plates full of sun dried tomatoes and breads for us all…we were well looked after. After about an hour another mob of English fans came in and started to get abusive to the owner and throwing their weight around……only to **** off sharpish when we told them in no uncertain terms that they weren’t welcome in the bar (we had some proper lads in our mob). Funny as **** it was and I still remember it to this day.
There just seem to be too many ****ers supporting England, mate. I was at Wembley when we beat Scotland in Euro 96 and pretty much everyone around me was a ****. It was a horrible experience and I vowed not to go to any more England games. The only one I've been to since was when I took my young son to see us play USA in a friendly. We were near a large group of USA supporters who applauded our anthem. Theirs was loudly booed and I was ashamed.
Yeah the Scotland game was definitely a bit ‘lively’ all day mate. I was no angel but proud of the fact that we only ever had shenanigans with others who were of similar ilk……couldn’t stand the bullying stuff that went on later and partly why I stopped going. Another reason was it just became a battleground of opposing England fans fighting each other, especially at away matches……Chelsea v Spurs, Blackpool v Preston, Leeds v Stoke etc etc…..definitely not a case of all English together. Used to make us laugh as our group of lads had blokes from Millwall, Chelsea, Spurs, QPR (me), Port Vale, Tranmere, Southport, Charlton and a few from Bolton…..all great lads who I met through another, now gone, messageboard and all would look after each other. Sadly said messageboard became our undoing and led to a good few getting nicked at Maze Hill…some getting 2 years. Still speak to a few of them and talk about old times like us old people do.
COME ON ENGLAND !!! (Do any of our older fans recognise the face on the left in the picture ? A true QPR fan legend who is sadly no longer with us)
My Italian boss has given me tomorrow off. First Monday off this year Come on England Win a tournament in my lifetime I have left so many messages hidden around work for him to find we need to win
