Thursday, 23 June 2016

NEXT: ICELAND NIL POINTS

Iceland the land of volcanoes and ice have something in common with the England national team -son. All but one of their squad players are name with the ending "sson", the other one ends in -sen.
Our leader Roy is a -son too- got to be an omen.

This is not the reaction of an Icelander being confronted by one of these lady footy fans.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/33867/10322569/icelands-late-winner-prompts-ecstatic-response-from-commentator
It's the reaction to Arnor Traustason's winner yesterday.
The females are good footballers too.

With a population of Coventry (approx 300,000), the Icelanders, quoted by Ronaldo as "having a small mentality" have put their fish diet to its best use and have brilliantly punched above their weight.

Five members of the English staff, including Gary Neville, went to watch Iceland play last night. Roy and Ray (Lewington) went to watch Hungary and Portugal.

Roy Hodgson has had a "Nordic experience" having coached in Finland and Sweden; he knows his stuff and he is getting fed up with the criticism he gets from the English public and press.

The Icelandic supporters spent 0.1% of their GDP on tickets for Euro2016, 27,000 in all turned out. Goal scorer Kari Arnason reckons he knew most of the Icelandic crowd in the Stade de France, St-Denis and was probably related to a good number of them. Being "English Football Crazy" they know a lot about the English game, but have they got anything left in the tank? The Englanders have had two days longer rest, so we would like to think they have a physical and mental advantage.

Goalie Hannes Hallorsson left the game to pursue another career path, directing the video for his country's 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. "Never Forget" came 20th with 46 points, so he would be happy to be back in football. England's entry "Love will set you free" came 25th with 12 points. A bad omen?

Of course not; England will win won't they; they will be joined by Switzerland, Croatia, Wales, Belgium, Germany, Spain and France.

Since we are in the region, Zlatan is on his way out of international football now that Sweden have gone home: here's a memory of him-of course it had to be against England. Wasn't that where Gary Lineker bailed out of international football too?
http://talksport.com/football/video-zlatan-ibrahimovic-retires-international-football-watch-one-greatest-goals-he-ever

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