headlesss chicken scenario on tuesday afternoon?

I think a lot will be prepared and booked Wednesday off work.

Good grief- anybody would think it was the final? ⚽️⚽️⚽️

I think people need a bit of pre-Covid escapism! ?⚽️?

The usual commuter traffic should be lighter, supermarkets quieter and the man in the garden at the back of me might not be doing his constant crashing and banging with scaffolding. Excellent!

Each to their own with watching sports and I wish all player well.
. I am so pleased we will be away for the next 2/3 weeks. No TV. I’ll miss all of Wimbledon and the rest of the Euros .
Just have to find a way to avoid the Olympics.?

Tour de France on a lot of channels too here, I do not mind the sports themselves but why do they need to talk about it all for hours before and after.
If you have watched it you know what happened !!!!!!

Stand by for quite a few firms finishing early,
suggest try and get anything done, well before kick off time at 17:00pm

Don't like football or tennis so l am bored already

Why do the main BBC channels think the whole country wants to watch sport. Both channels are filled with hours of sport Everything has been messed about for football and now also tennis.

I used to love any major football. Not because I like football- quite the opposite. But I used to go to the local large shopping centre when the match was on and shop in relative peace and quiet :-)

What if they do? Why does it matter to you?
Lucky them. I'm working until 8pm. Gutted

I agree felice they drivel on for hours bigging up their part. So boring.

What will all these people do if Germany win? After all the hype etc. it is most likely they will. I would always say to players, talk less to the press and save your energy for the match.

My DS, currently living in Italy and on holiday near Rome, has just messaged to let me know he will be watching “in a bar with some Germans”. Don’t envy him which ever way it ends!!??????? v ??

Well to be fair JohnD most of the talk is by arm chair experts, not the actual players.

As for what will they do if Germany win?
Cry into their beer I expect

All major television companies think we all want to watch and hear about sport all summer.

It does not matter as much now, where we can watch practically anything we want over the computer, but it used to be quite dreadful.

You would think it would pay television to find out exactly what percentage of their viewers would prefer some alternative form of entertainment, and to provide it.

They are still apparently living in the world of the 1950s as far as sport goes.

Historically speaking, countries all over Europe started encouraging sports as healthy outdoor excercise for the masses somewhere around 1900.

I suspect the aim was also to leave less time for workers to organize themselves in trade unions!

Quite a lot of public money was expended on sports facilities at that time and sports and gymnastics were included in school syllabuses. This was done with the laudable aim of improving the general popuation's health. TB was still rife at the time, so encouraging people to do some sort of outdoor activity in their very limited free time, after a 60 hour working week, and with maximum one week's summr holiday a year (many had less), was necessary,

Now it strikes me we hardly need to encourage sports any more. I personally would like to see some of the money used on sports diverted to theatres and orchestras, but that isn't likely to happen.

I love football and tennis. I know a lot of it is on right now but for the rest of the year I have to put up with boring soaps, stupid reality shows, cooking, quizzes etc non of which I have any interest in. Each to their own, if you like soaps etc I won’t have a go but as soon as we get some sport, complaints are always made. I cannot afford Sky sports so I am very happy when we get some on the Beeb. You can always turn off the tv if you don’t like sport, I hardly have mine on in the evening because it is such rubbish.

I’m with you foxyferret, given that Wimbledon is a major world sporting event as are the Euros I’m glad they are not on a pay to view channel.

Surely people can find either something else to do or something to watch on iPlayer for a coupleof weeks

I’m a great sports fan so this is my happy fortnight watching tennis and football which are my two favourites.

I reckon watching England tonight might be as nerve wracking as watching Andy Murray last night, but I'll be delighted if the end result is the same

Brilliant, innit? Footies AND Wimbledon - bliss.
Just sent ds in the US the link to the ultimate Skinner/Baddiel vid of them singing Three Lions, which will be my earworm today.

With so many channels and box sets etc., isn't it wonderful that not one of us has to watch anything we don't want to. Freedom indeed and not one single complaint necessary.

I agree Kim and can I also put a plug in for books? There really are so many choices we all have.

I am someone who loves watching football. If you don't like it, Sky, Netflix and Freeview have other programmes to watch. Let those of us who enjoy it, watch it the times it is on. Tennis once a year, Football Euros every second year, world cup once on 4 years. No one holds a gun to your head to make you watch sport.