And today England will follow the vote and make their brexit from this tourney against Iceland.
Haha, I wish! nothing against England, it's just that Iceland is the perfect underdog to root for.
Today there's also Italy vs Spain, and sorry to any spanish supporters here, but I have a bone to pick with them. Last Euro Cup Spain won 4-0 the final, but it's not the result that bothers me, but the way it was achieved. Italy was already losing 2-0, they already had the three changes and they were one man down for injury, and what Spain did? scored again. Not once, but twice, in a final already won.
If it's 11 vs 11 I have no problem with huge defeats (I don't really get the talks "they should have stopped, it's humiliating", well, it's also humiliating that a team decides 'Hey you guys suck so much, we'll just pass the ball around each other for the last 30 minutes'), but when bad luck puts another team one man down, to kick an already defeated enemy while they're down it's just mean to me.
So of course I hope that Italy wins... but also I hope that Spain loses bad, in a karmic way that leaves them only rage and regret, be it for a referee mistake or dumb luck with an impossible kick that finds its way to the net somehow.
If Italy wins by being the overall best team, good. If Italy wins after Spain dominated the match and at the last minute on an easy kick their goalkeeper stumbles on the laces of his own shoes, even better.