Don't get me wrong I don't want to sound negative but if we get to the final that will be feigning injury and falling down with every tackle.
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I picked Italy to win the tournament but hope and pray England beat the Demark and convincingly beat the Italians. The one thing l can't stand about the Italians is their extremely bad sportsmanship. History will show its in their blood ..................... so if England can get a win over the Danish, l certainly hope they smack Italy.
Finished my shift, which included us getting Fabio Capello from the airport to his Wembley, even though he wanted to go to his hotel first ... So I had a chance to mix with the fans outside. Such good natured singing and taunting by the huge groups of rival fans all through the afternoon... The main jibe was the Spaniards only have one football song....whilst the Italians have many...and were working through each clubs songs. Anyone know if this is true
Most Italian fans are much fiercer fans of their club than their country, they like it when Italy win and celebrate wildly, but don’t want national success if it costs their club an injury to a player. The Ultras of most clubs don’t bother with international football at all. And of course last night you saw nice expatriate fans, like the excellent English expatriate fans in Rome the other night. Singing club songs would probably end up in violence if it happened at an international in Italy, but I don’t think it does. Personally, and I might be in a minority here, it would mean a lot more to me for QPR to be promoted, let alone winning something big, than England winning the Euros or the World Cup. But fortunately it’s not an either/or choice and if I can have both I’ll take both please.
I can understand that. QPR players are players I watch week in and week out, they trained in my school field and if you get to a game early enough you can shake their hands as they arrive at the ground. They play for my team. England players are multi-millionaire superstars who live on a different planet in many ways. Kinda makes you lose some of the excitement over international football. Don't get me wrong, I'd love us to win the Euros, but the thought of QPR back in the Premiership definitely gets me more excited.
Well I'm right. This is a football thread. Maybe some need to bring debates over from other threads but not me.
As someone who was fortunate enough to be at Wembley to see England win in 1966 and QPR win there 8 months later, the QPR win was certainly bigger for me back then. I think it probably would be now too, but as you say, we don't have to choose. Let's have both.
