EURO 2021 - Who says we lost?
Look at the facts. The first 90 minutes of football ended in a 1-1 draw. The next 30 minutes ditto. WE DID NOT LOSE.
As for the penalty shoot-outs where 10 men do a kick-about, does it say anything legitimate about the respective skills or the execution of the match? How CAN it? The Footy billionaires make these silly rules. So, we hit the net with two kicks and Italy succeeded with three. Pretty inconclusive as a way of judging a competition that has gone on over months. Find some way more intelligent and fair, EURO administrators, please.
I am maintaining we didn't lose because my granddaughter is really upset. Her mother too. And I felt like a tyre that's lost air slowly and gone flat. So, I did what I do whenever I don't have even a tentative answer. I take a book to bed.
O K. Saka should have started. Rice and Mount, both more or less invisible during the match should have been taken out. Henderson should have come on earlier and Rashford too. Indeed what is Rashford doing sitting it out while Kane runs around doing nothing much? Maguire did a much better job encouraging and guiding the team. Kane has got his days, but yesterday was not one of them.
And Sterling? He is normally so good at ducking and diving, dribbling and getting through. He did all that yesterday, but did not find the back of the net.
I will refrain from commenting upon the toxic assault on the black men who missed their penalties. It is beyond my understanding.
Gareth Southgate, I figure, deserves a knighthood for what he achieved. Have you ever seen our team play as well as they have done in recent months? And we reached the semi-final. Let's win the next competition.
