Pure coincidence. I see your team are currently beating Wales 1-0 in the final warm up. Any chance you can organise a little injury for Zlatan?
Yes I saw that. Bale came on as a sub apparently. Not a great send off for Beth's team before their big game with England.
Very open this one - the French must be favourites, the Spanish may have had a problem with loss of preparation time due to an all Spanish Champions League final and the German preparation has been anything but perfect - can see the Germans getting to the semis but no further. Belgium are one of the best teams there but may lack the mentality to actually win a major tournament - I think either England or Wales may surprise us.
I have drawn our oldest ally, Can't see them doing it, however. I will be backing (financially), as usual, Ze Germans.
The tournament looks wide open to me, with France and Germany the obvious front runners. I'd obviously love England to win it, but failing that, I think there may be an unexpected winner.
Mmm,Poland eh.Think they could have a reasonable tournament,obviously the huge clash with the Germans will decide if they get out of the group as possible winners or runners up. Not sure about how far they could go,but in Lewandowski they have one of the world's top strikers!
I bet he's a train spotter as well. They're a strange breed. I counted 233 of them at Clapham Junction on Saturday
The FAs Performance Director, a bloke called Reddin, and prevented the England squad from going on a 3 hour round trip to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, on the Somme battlefield, where 72,000 names of British and South African soldiers whose bodies were never found are remembered. The names include 37 footballers. Reddin's reasoning is that this epic 3 hour journey would be 'too draining'. Perhaps if they did it one way, like the men who are remembered there, it would be OK. Roy was very keen for the trip to take place. Sometimes I despair. What better to give these pampered nobodies a sense of perspective and sacrifice than this? I have been to this memorial, and found soldiers who share my surname remembered there. Perhaps Vardy could distract himself from his great dilemma about which club should pay him £120,000 per week by doing something similar. To their credit Hart and Milner have posted a video message in support of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and Roy gave them a nicely worded piece.
