{"id":209,"date":"2004-06-11T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/11\/euro-2004-and-the-best-moments-in-football\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:32:51","slug":"euro-2004-and-the-best-moments-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/euro-2004-and-the-best-moments-in-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2004 and the Best Moments in Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Euro 2004 approaches, and the optimisim is so thick in England you’d think the official song was “Ally’s Tartan Army.” But please, sympathise with me. This is a very painful time for most Scots. We can see that Sven is as useful at a game of Risk as Claudio Ranieri, that you don’t have a single world class outfield player that challenge the big names of the tournament; but there is always the nagging fear that ‘you lot’ might fluke the damm thing.<\/p>\n

So I’ll try to push that thought to the back of my mind. As a celebration of International Football, London’s Evening Standard carried the “5 Best Moments in Football” last night, and I thought I’d quote them here. I think there must have been a misprint as these had “Worst Moments” printed above them<\/p>\n

  • David Beckham being sent off against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup.\n
  • Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” at the 1986 World Cup\n
  • Chris Waddle’s penalty miss against West Germany in the 1990\u0010World Cup.\n
  • Gareth Southgate’s penalty miss in Euro 96 (again against Germany).\n
  • Germany beating England 1-0 in their last game at Wembley.\n<\/li>\n

    It would be such a shame if the Referee on Sunday’s big England v France was German… Oh he is? And so are his Linesmen? Lovely…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Euro 2004 approaches, and the optimisim is so thick in England you’d think the official song was “Ally’s Tartan Army.” But please, sympathise with me. This is a very painful time for most Scots. We can see that Sven is as useful at a game of Risk as Claudio Ranieri, that you don’t have a single world class outfield player that challenge the big names of the tournament; but there is always the nagging fear that ‘you lot’ might fluke the damm thing. So I’ll try to push that thought to the back of my mind. As a celebration of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blue-brazil","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-3n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}