What is sweeter exactly? By being handed the trophy on the plate by corrupt UEFA? Anyway, even if you win it, in most people eyes, you ll never reach the reputation of the biggest nations in football. As i've said it earlier, you may have invented football(debatable), but surely as hell there are other nations who plays this sport much better. I know it doesn't matter for you now, as i suppose you ll be very drunk tonight. Don't really hate England per se, but this team is SO overrated.
England team overrated? Yeah I agree, although we do have many high potential youngsters coming through
Other nations play the sport better? I agree again. in fact, the PL would be nowhere near as big as it's become without the foreign influence of people like Pep. The best players in the league mostly aren't English (depending on how you feel about Kane). We'd still be playing Tony Pulis hoofball without them
I find it ridiculous to suggest though that we are being handed anything. England have been on the shit end of the ref stick so many times I've lost count over the years; Lampards 'no goal' vs Germany always comes to mind. To be an England fan is to suffer, even tonight the manager decided to take Grealish off and go more defensive despite us looking like scoring another
The sweet part, I guess, is coming through a tough game with the amount of hate we get which isn't warranted. I'm an Englishman and a Barca fan (no other clubs) and I despise the EPL fanboys but when it comes to the country, people are wrong. maybe it's the "footballs coming home" thing which, btw, is mostly a meme at this point.
Anyways, vs Italy we have a very tough job and I think we'll come up short but to see us actually reach a final is massive