Like a true blockbuster, Euro 2024 has everything – action, emotion, comedy, drama, gastronomy, and goals
Let’s start with World Peace. For long, its proponents have looked down upon the plebeian influences of football. There is an honest intent to change that. This Euro continues with the previous one’s emotion of loving thy enemy.
Germany's Antonio Rudiger played a good host by scoring one for the opponents.
Albania’s Klaus Gjasula scored one for the opponents before his own team.
Some Dutch fans chose to fight each other rather the opposition.
Divided by Mediterranean Sea and football, Spain and Italy were united by Riccardo Calafiori. The Spanish conundrum of chances not converting into goals could have remained so if not for this Roman, who came, who saw, who...
In the little town of Altavilla Vicentina in northern Italy, Roberto Baggio tried to put up a better fight against five armed robbers than the one his countrymates were doing at that time on the screen. Perhaps they were a motley bunch of Milan, Inter, and Juve fans getting back at him for betraying their respective colours.
Otherwise, this was a day of harmony. A current king and a future king met, shook hands and departed on an amicable note, owing to the Denmark-England draw. The fans, primarily the latter’s, got on board too. Apart from one detained for riding an e-scooter under the influence, another trying to enter the stadium as a referee, and just a handful more, it was a surprisingly peaceful night.
Only a global pizza chain mocked the English coach, Gareth Southgate. ‘If Southgate ran a Domino’s’ read the caption for an out-of-control
