Women's Euro 25

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, Leicesterpool said:

But only one of them won their finals. I get we are improving but every tournament England men always exit tournament looking like they could gave extra.

The women have done brilliantly no argument there. I do think it ridiculous to compare the current depth of competition between the mens game and the women. 

[StanSP]

6 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

When listen to ex players interviews years later, the common theme for a player instead of talking about a certain moment in there career it'll be all about the night get drunk in a pre-season tour.

Who? 

[Dr Marco]

52 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Who? 

Jack Grealish?

[Super_horns]

2 hours ago, StanSP said:

Who? 

Troy Deeney ?

 

Sounds like the sort of thing he’d do .

[BKLFox]

I wonder if the top brass at Man C are grilling their woman’s team coaching staff for freezing out and then allowing Chloe Kelly to be sold.

Arsenal are going to be quids in for shirt & ticket sales as well of the amount of publicity they will get off the back of her fantastic tournament.

[CosbehFox]

24 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

I wonder if the top brass at Man C are grilling their woman’s team coaching staff for freezing out and then allowing Chloe Kelly to be sold.

Arsenal are going to be quids in for shirt & ticket sales as well of the amount of publicity they will get off the back of her fantastic tournament.

tbf her replacements have done well and typically the manager she seemed to have an issue with, Gareth Taylor, has now left. 

[bovril]

13 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

I think sporting success is a major way for people to express pride.  Look at the turn out for the 2012 Olympics. Generally the British and the English in particular do not feel the need on a daily basis to bang on about national pride. Call it laid back or a natural lack of showing off. Football and all the major sports mean large crowds of like minded people gather together in a way the normally reserved public don't usually do. Before the 2012 games there was a lot of moaning before (very UK Trait that) that it would be crap and goodness knows what the opening ceremony would be and probably rubbish when in fact it was marvellous. 

I think you're right that there is something in the English character and culture that makes them avoid spontaneous shows of national pride or any other emotion really. Then stuff like the Olympics and the Lionesses feels a bit state sanctioned, like the celebration of the NHS in the 2012 opening ceremony or the renaming of the 'Lioness line' last year. It's all very safe and government-approved. 

[Foxdiamond]

10 minutes ago, bovril said:

I think you're right that there is something in the English character and culture that makes them avoid spontaneous shows of national pride or any other emotion really. Then stuff like the Olympics and the Lionesses feels a bit state sanctioned, like the celebration of the NHS in the 2012 opening ceremony or the renaming of the 'Lioness line' last year. It's all very safe and government-approved. 

Sometimes it is good not to be volatile but sometimes a bit too placid

[bovril]

20 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Sometimes it is good not to be volatile but sometimes a bit too placid

I think the English can be pretty volatile as we've seen. Maybe better to let off steam more regularly and more genuinely than keep stuff bottled up until it comes out during a long hot summer with no football. 

[Foxdiamond]

17 minutes ago, bovril said:

I think the English can be pretty volatile as we've seen. Maybe better to let off steam more regularly and more genuinely than keep stuff bottled up until it comes out during a long hot summer with no football. 

Still think overall we are fairly laid back. For every hundred making a lot of headlines there are thousands staying home

[bovril]

1 minute ago, Foxdiamond said:

Still think overall we are fairly laid back. For every hundred making a lot of headlines there are thousands staying home

Not sure cafe owners in squares across Europe would agree we're laid back, but you're right it's a minority thankfully. 

[Leicesterpool]

Some folk arent keen comparing the men to the women football. Im sure other nations do it as well.

 

I mean looking at USA amazing womens team, most successful womens team in world football whilst the men aren't even in the top 20 world rankings.

 

Germany at the present are probably on the same par. Both the mens and womens were as great as each other been seem to be going through a weak phase by there standard.

 

Norway is interesting, there womens team used to be such a force but have dropped of big time. At the moment the mens team seem to developing after years of nothing.