Twentyfour hours later it still hurts. From being second in the worldcup to going home in the group phase of the European Cup, with nil points, never showing up in any match for more than fifteen minutes. The best players of their generation and they twatted it. Worse, they lost from not just two of the teams we most love to hate (portugal and, need I say it, Germany), they also lost from Denmark, a country they should’ve never lost to and one which had already cost us so much heartbreak in ’92 by eliminating us then and with it our chance to be in the final. Oh well, let’s have good old David Mitchell to put it all in perspective:
In fantasy football land meanwhile it’s 2016 and Plymouth Argyle has just won the Premiership, the League Cup and the Europa League… Not that I’m a Football Manager obsessive or anything.
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