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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm glad Spain won. 
    The only thing England do worse than losing, is winning. 
    I heard a news report last week and they still managed to shoehorn in 1966. 
    It's only a game after all.

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
     Less relevant than  1066 - especially if your name was Harold . 1666 mattered if you were a Londoner. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hostafan1 said:
    … The only thing England do worse than losing, is winning. …
    Perhaps if we won more often we’d be better at it … 🤔 

    At least we might take it in our stride a bit more and not have to live on such long-past glories. 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dovefromabove said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    … The only thing England do worse than losing, is winning. …
    Perhaps if we won more often we’d be better at it … 🤔 

    At least we might take it in our stride a bit more and not have to live on such long-past glories. 🙄 
    I'm just glad I have ZERO interest in any sport.
    Devon.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Dovefromabove said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    … The only thing England do worse than losing, is winning. …
    Perhaps if we won more often we’d be better at it … 🤔 

    At least we might take it in our stride a bit more and not have to live on such long-past glories. 🙄 
    And Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She's a winner!!
    Congratulations to the lady. Two championship titles. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    There’s all sorts of things I have zero interest in … but lots of other people enjoy them … and the media etc are full of a lot of them… that’s fine by me 
    …  I have a very efficient ‘Ignore button’ so those activities don't bother me … it’s humanity ‘in her infinite variety’ that I find fascinating. 😊 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2023
    I'm glad I was at work. ( not that I ever have TV on during the day anyway )
    Classic FM didn't even mention it  until it was all over.
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    BBC news and they're still talking about '66
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I'm happy the world cup was on at midday.  OH got all the ironing done while I pottered about elsewhere ignoring it all.

    I do find the aftermath reporting excessive tho and the constant harking back to 66.   The should also be harking back to the day a load of buffers declared football to be not suitable for women.  As this article  illustrates it was, in fact, all about money -
    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jun/13/how-the-fa-banned-womens-football-in-1921-and-tried-to-justify-it


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2023
    There has actually been quite a bit about that on tv and radio recently @Busy-Lizzie. Those attitudes lingered a long time … even my mother was convinced that somehow it was actually immoral for women to play soccer (that was the argument put forward by men in power) … but not hockey … but she could never explain why. 

    It might have something to do with the fact that her grandfather was actually quite a bigwig in FA circles. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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