well,
as a renowned expert on football…
I think the French have real style. The women there now wear a small tricolour tattooed just beneath the left cheekbone, some of them just beneath both cheekbones. From a distance, it looks like Apache warpaint. Very becoming.
I was only interested in the football aspect of this, of course.
Totally cut off from the news for a while now, I only knew that France had won the semi-finals last night because the French have gone football crazy and cars were hooting even in a tiny village late into the night.
Also, when out for a meal, the chef thought it important to inform me on Saturday night that England were into the semi-finals.
Suppressing a yawn, I thought it best to pretend I was a world authority on football and told him that I thought England wouldn’t make it to the final or would get beat there. This in on the basis of a lazy viewing af part of the game between England and Colombia. The English struck me as very good team players, but lacked flash. Nobody brilliant, so most of the time they were fighting off the Colombians around their goalpost (seemed a very good goalie, mind you).
So, as a world-renowned expert on football (eat your heart out, milky), I confidently predict England will LOSE. I blame it all on brexit.