I can hardly believe it, England, in a major tournament final,
Am I dreaming?….
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Wasn’t it great Primus…I can’t wait for Sunday.
Good luck England!
And I am proud of Harry Kane, who was brought up Chingford, the next town to where I was born and lived until 2 years ago. Apparently he went to the same school as Beckham.
Well done lads.
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I am delighted England got to the final. But to my thinking, a home goal and a dodgy penalty is not the way I wanted them to get there. Man of the match for me was Kasper the Danish keeper. He was magnificent. Roll on Sunday.
I can hardly believe it either, I was still living in the UK the last time the England soccer team won anything.
I agree Dave. Kasper Schmeichel, a chip off the old block.
Congratulations guys.
Totally agree a great keeper chip off the old block.
Brilliant game! When Denmark scored first goal I really thought that would be an end to us. Brilliant team, they rallied round and fought like the lions they are, to the end.
Hi
I was in hospital last night, in Coronary Care Unit.
I am not into football, others are.
We got a flat screen put up so we could watch it.
Very nice of the nurses, but one man got so anxious during the penalty he needed treatment.
Sorry to read you’re back in hospital Swimmy. Hope all goes as well as can be hoped for.
We watched the last 6 mins of extra time having caught the goals by good luck (flicking from something else we were watching at the time). What a bloody waste of time that was. It was sooooooooo boooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrringly obvious England was playing the clock down.
You obviously missed the other 114 minutes Percy, that was pretty exciting. :-p:-p
Can’t lose now, the Ted Arrows are flying over, before the game!
Was it THAT obvious? 
Yes, we deliberately missed the previous 114mins Longdogs. We were watching something far more interesting to us.
Sadly the dream is over but at least you can bathe in the glory of Ash Barty’s win at Wimbledon. It is nearly as long since we have won a women’s title with Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
There is always next year.
Having watched the game, (and the Europa Cup Games last month) I can’t help wondering why they settle the equal scores situation by having Penalty Kicks.
It was clear that the players who were unfortunate enough to miss, or had their shots saved, were devastated.
It may stay with them for life!
It seems to me that the Penalties system puts an unfair personal burden on the few who are chosen to take them, and the Goalkeepers who have to take the wrap for all of them.
Surely that’s unbalanced.
Football is reasonably sporting, but having to settle with Penalties seems very unsporting!
Surely there’s a better way?
I can’t agree with you on this one, Ted, sorry. A few minutes of anxiousness for the money they get? Good exchange rate there I think. Can’t have it that easy. I’m sorry they lost, but it was an exciting game and they can focus on the world cup now, eh?
They did experiment with the golden goal at one tournament but this is really unfair, in extra time, the team that scores is the winner, but the opposing team has no chance to answer, it was also proposed that , a player from each team was taken off after so many minutes ( I assume there’d be a minimum) but the game would go on forever, no, this is the fairest way cruel that it is , I can’t see any other way they can do it…
I think penalties are the best way to decide. These are all highly paid professionals. What I thought was a mistake was to throw two penalty takers on in the last minute of extra time. They had hardly touched the ball before they were expected to step up to take a penalty. They both missed if I recall correctly.
I remember when some European Cup games were decided on the toss of a coin. Now that is unfair.