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It's going to Rome, it's going to Rome..... Wow, well my concerns about an annoying large minority of England fans was justified I really feel for the players. I'm glad that they do all seem so close knit, so many of them are young and I hope it doesn't affect them badly. On the plus side for them, they're a young team and should have a lot of time left, even if Italy deserved the win today. I hope enough people are disgusted by the racism towards the players that it bolsters the cause they've been campaigning for... I've also seen kids' letters to some of the players on Twitter and it's just so touching.

Oh, man. As mentioned before I was feeling more sympathetic to England than usual (nice lads, and no-one is immune to Gareth Southgate)... but jeez if the pundits and fans haven't tested me. As well as keeping on booing other countries' anthems, an England fan shone a laser in the Danish goalie's face during the penalty. And the penalty was one that really probably should have been cancelled anyway, but the pundits were playing up the "this is amazing, we all love England don't weeee" stuff so much that they barely questioned it (if it'd been Italy they would have instantly brought up the rep the Italian team's always had for diving and playing dramatics for penalties). I don't begrudge a bit of extra enthusiasm but the ITV commentary really was woeful... I wish they'd had a non-English co-commentator at least. Seeing the Tory govt playing up the nationalism, and the effect a win would have on folks' senses with covid restrictions being relaxed too early (a week or so before my birthday ) doesn't help either. tl;dr I like the current England team but despite not being the most jingoistic Scot out there I still can't bring myself to actually want them to win. If they do at least the players are giving a lot of money to NHS charities, so I'd take some joy from that.

I wasn't paying attention but apparently Belgium vs Italy was good. Woofie has lower expectations for today's. (ENG-UR-LUNDDDD. Though tbh the team seem like a decent bunch of lads so I might be a little more spiritually generous to ENG than usual.)

I'm not into football really but end up watching some when it's a tournament (because Woofie, lol). How about the 8-goal Croatia-Spain match and the and Sweden-Ukraine one where the guy scored a goal in literally the last minute of extra time the other night?? Those were pretty good/interesting even to me.