Watching the Lionesses ⚽️ Sunday

Spain the better team, next time England... you did fanastically well making it into the Final.👍

Grandma 70s and Oreo. I agree with every word you have said.
Still, each to their own I suppose.

Sunday: Watched at Irish Pub close to apartment on big screen.

We had lunch out and then walked over to the Irish Pub with big sport screens closed to our flat.

M0nica

Cynically amused that the loss of a football match, no matter how important, has driven every mention of the Lucy Letby trial and everything associated with it entirely from the BBC, and presumably other news outlets.

I am very clear which has the priority in my world - we lunched at a restaurant that was television free.

Your lunch, presumably.

You bet!

The football news will be transitory MOnica.
The slow unravelling of the Lucy Letby horror’s will not, unfortunately more to come.

How sad that a member of the Spanish team's father died on Friday but she wasn't told until after the match in case it affected her game. Talk about winning at all costs. What has happened to people?

Kate1949

How sad that a member of the Spanish team's father died on Friday but she wasn't told until after the match in case it affected her game. Talk about winning at all costs. What has happened to people?

And it was the girl who scored the winning goal 😢

Was it? I didn't watch.

There will be more coverage of the Letby case over weeks and weeks to come. More than I expect most us can cope with distressing as it will be. Today's break from it is welcome.

I have read that the Spanish footballer's father had been very ill for a long time and her mother and other family arrived in Sydney on Saturday to support her. Maybe they wanted her very much to compete ... and maybe he would have wanted her to as well.

Glad that it’s opened up football for girls as so many love it. Don’t deny it’s a wonderful achievement. However it doesn’t interest me one bit. Everything so loud, everyone gets so excited all the the jumping around and screeching not for me. It’s just a game. Know it’s a sin but I couldn't stand sports at school, did very well at just two but only did them because there was no alternative. Avoided them ever since but I loved walking and still do, the countryside and by the sea is where I’m happiest. If it’s a choice between sport on tv or nothing, I take nothing.
Understand we lost but they did well getting there so there’s always next time. The girl that wasn’t told about her father dying, perhaps it’s what he would have wanted too, so she did it for him too. He would have wanted her to have her dream.