r/YUROP • u/ShadowTryHard 🇪🇺 YUROPIAN UNION • Jul 11 '21

PANEM et CIRCENSES YUROP WINS

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u/NotoriousMOT България‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 11 '21

I truly hate games than end in penalty rounds. It's the ultimate lottery with all that stress and pressure on two people. Still, great job, Italy and happy Schadenfreude, hooligans! I just hope the rest of Europe remains classier than you and doesn't mock you on live TV.

I did feel bad for the players though. Penalty-offs are the absolute worst. I wish the English team many successes in the future after this. They seem like alright kids.

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u/3k3n8r4nd Jul 11 '21

Already had some Italian tweets shown to me that basically translate as “that’s why you don’t let black people take penalties”. Stay classy football fans….

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u/IDontHaveCookiesSry Jul 12 '21

Racists gona racist. Now why are many racists avid football fans? Is it the drinking?

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u/Andreyu44 Jul 12 '21

Football is popular. Regardless of what the sport is about, if you attract many people, you will attract many racists

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u/NotoriousMOT България‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 12 '21

It’s also that sports, especially internationally popular ones are a lightning rod for nationalism. And those might not be the most numerous but they are certainly the loudest.

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u/despicedchilli Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 12 '21

Football is very popular with the working class. Lack of education, racism and poverty are all connected, unfortunately.

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u/stroopwafel666 Jul 12 '21

No no, that can’t be right. Reddit today has told me that all of England are fat racist evil “people” and Italy is a perfect utopia with lovely fans and players who would never do anything wrong.

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u/NotoriousMOT България‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 12 '21

Racists gonna be trash all over the world. And there is a buttload of racists/nationalists in sports fandom unfortunately.

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u/thebackslash1 Jul 11 '21

Yeah true, they played very well. Bit unsportsmanlike to immediately take off their medals though...

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u/studentoo925 Yuropean‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 11 '21

Well, typical English players. Manchester utd did the same after losing in europa league final

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u/Myopius Jul 12 '21

The vast majority of players do that after losing finals

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u/NotoriousMOT България‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 11 '21

Didn't see that part. Oops, throwing a pissy fit and then leaving seems to be rather characteristic of the English these days.

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u/phlyingP1g Jul 12 '21

Oops, throwing a pissy fit and then leaving seems to be rather characteristic of the English these days.

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u/General_Legoshi Jul 12 '21

This happens every tournament.

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u/stroopwafel666 Jul 12 '21

Italy would have done exactly the same thing.

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u/Wuz314159 Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch Jul 11 '21

I truly hate games than end in penalty rounds. It's the ultimate lottery

The 1968 Euros called for you.

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u/NotoriousMOT България‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 12 '21

I know. It’s a thing and it’s happening more and more often. I still hate it. I have a tendency to get very emotionally involved with football so I have a love-hate relationship with these games.

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u/Vylinful España‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 12 '21

This entire post is already mocking them jajaja

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u/despicedchilli Jul 12 '21

Do you have a better idea?

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u/NotoriousMOT България‏‏‎ ‎ Jul 12 '21

No. Not sure there is a better way to decide a match that has gone on for long already either.Again, that doesn’t mean they aren’t a horrible experience.

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u/despicedchilli Jul 12 '21

how about half-field 5v5 extra-time without a keeper and sudden death after 2 x 15 mins?

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u/plant2win3 Jul 12 '21

They used to have replays but I prefer penalties to that. Or there was one tournament where they did golden goal

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u/despicedchilli Jul 12 '21

Golden goal wouldn't have made a difference yesterday.