which country is most dead on arrival these euro 2024?
 

poll incoming

Netherlands 3 losses i predict


Poland - NL 3-0

NL - France 0-8

Austria - NL 2-0


therefore most chanceless team for me personally

I would say Albania looking at their group.

But out of the options on the poll, I'll say Georgia.

Albania have Sylvinho's brazilian style of play tactics, which got them surprising wins over Czechia, Poland in their qualifying group, top of the group which no one saw coming



Georgia could have a slight advantage over Turkiye, the former having slightly more younger fresher players while the latter there are too many older players in their squad



Slovenia i do not mention here because i think they have a good squad, don't know many players by name without googling them, but their star is hyped up with them as ''slovene haaland'' Benny Sesko




Slovakia idk them currently, i used to know them better, like Marek Hamsik



Romania another unknown currently for me, only Ianis Hagi i do know who is good, but as for the rest, big question marks pre-tournament for me

I will be supporting the mighty Dutch in this tournament, although I think England or France will win it all.

Why not england?

Van Dijk, Gakpo, and Gravenbrech all play for Liverpool.

i am supporting Slovenia, Albania, Germany, Belgium, Georgia (yes i know they are among the least favourites this tournament, but am just happy for the sheni's they finally made it into the main tournament for ex-vitesse star Guram Kashia :love:)

I will give you Van DIjk..but the other 2 are faceless nobodies who wont last the distance.

Robertson though,.......just saying.:shrug:

I have love for all Celtic nations, so I hope Scotland do well. When I was a kid, my bro had a Scotland shirt, and I always loved it. Those Sourness era Scotland shirts were the best.

Was it the way it held the figure?

If they'd have been a little more off the shoulder, then yes.

I don't really know what off the shoulder means. I just know it relates to women's fashion somehow. :laugh:

It will be like the german left wingers shirt, up against Scotland 3rd choice right back for the opening game.

If history tells us anything, it's that the Germans prefer to load up on the right wing

Now you've got me thinking.

The right wing.

Where did that saying originate? And why the right? Does it all originate from what side a party sits in parliament? Seems strangebif it is cause it's used world wide.

Hmmm..maybe wrong thread but could @anyone answer please. My anxiety is kicking in.

That's my understanding

https://www.history.com/news/how-did...wing-originate

Today the terms “left wing” and “right wing” are used as symbolic labels for liberals and conservatives, but they were originally coined in reference to the physical seating arrangements of politicians during the French Revolution.

The split dates to the summer of 1789, when members of the French National Assembly met to begin drafting a constitution. The delegates were deeply divided over the issue of how much authority King Louis XVI should have, and as the debate raged, the two main factions each staked out territory in the assembly hall. The anti-royalist revolutionaries seated themselves to the presiding officer’s left, while the more conservative, aristocratic supporters of the monarchy gathered to the right.


“I tried to sit in different parts of the hall and not to adopt any marked spot, so as to remain more the master of my opinion,” one right-wing baron wrote, “but I was compelled absolutely to abandon the left or else be condemned always to vote alone and thus be subjected to jeers from the galleries.”

The divisions only continued during the 1790s, when newspapers began making reference to the progressive “left” and traditionalist “right” of the French assembly. The distinctions later vanished for several years during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, but with the Bourbon Restoration and the beginning of a constitutional monarchy in 1814, liberal and conservative representatives once again took up their respective posts on the left and right of the legislative chamber. By the mid-19th century, “left” and “right” had entered the French vernacular as shorthand for opposing political ideologies. Political parties even began self-identifying as “center left,” “center right,” “extreme left” and “extreme right.”

France’s “left” and “right” labels filtered out to the rest of the world during the 1800s, but they weren’t common in English-speaking countries until the early 20th century. The terms are now used to describe the opposing ends of the political spectrum, but their origins are still evident in the seating arrangements of many legislative bodies. In the U.S. Congress, for example, Democrats and Republicans traditionally sit on opposite sides of the House and Senate chambers.

Crikey...I'd have been a peasant against the monarchy back then. In a field sending smoke signals to my neighbours as everyone else raged on in actual battle.