Euros 2024

[caller]

The coming home thing is contextually, a form of irony. And irony is a very particular style of British humour, not often understood by others. In the coming home example, it means we are cheering for something that we know is pretty unlikely to happen - based on 58 years of evidence - it boils down to the fact we are taking the piss out of ourselves.

If it did happen, we'd have to find something else to wind ourselves up about!

I await to be shot down by others.

[Dannie Boy]

And at the end of the day, it’s only a song that was in part (probably a good part), produced to make the team who produced it money - it was a commercial venture as much/more than painting reality!!

[Big Boy]

I don't know if any of you guys are sad enough to have listened to this years version of Its Coming Home, but definitely getting worse with age. I think we need a new anthem soon anyway

[thecolonel]

Before a ball is kicked, score predictions for tomorrow night??

I'm going 3-1 Spain sadly

Think they will be 2 nil up at HT





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My overall result/scoreline wasn't that far out then...

Interestingly I went to a bar to watch it with 100+people and I asked a dozen or so English fans what score? They ALL said England would win, score 2 or 3 without reply

I know I'm a pessimist but jeez I couldn't understand the optimism for an England win. Had they not watched England's prior games? Or Spain beating France?

Hey ho, just found it startling that's all

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[pharvey]

I couldn't understand the optimism for an England win......

Oh hell, I'm a proud Welshman and a Rugby die hard.... I'll always expect a Welsh win - even when we've just lost 9 on the bounce!!

[404cameljockey]

I couldn't understand the optimism for an England win......

Oh hell, I'm a proud Welshman and a Rugby die hard.... I'll always expect a Welsh win - even when we've just lost 9 on the bounce!!

Exactly right, if you didn't have hope, however forlorn, you wouldn't continue to watch!

I have friends, Finnish, Swedish, and so on who say that English humour is the best in the world. They quote Fawlty Towers, Only Fools, etc. at me all the time, but even they don't get the humorous self-deprecation involved in rolling out the Coming Home song every time, until we talk about it. Maybe the Danes get it? In my opinion we are more alike than the UK and any other European nation (they're certainly enthusiastic drinkers).