TenkoDaLuz

That sounds pretty sad mate.

It's a cathartic feeling, but it won't make up for that. I still find myself looking at images from the pre-match of the EURO 2004 final from time to time and it still hurts.

Die Bart. Die.

You mean an European Cup? Or you'd prefer Newcastle to win a FA Cup versus England winning an EURO or WC?

I can agree with feeling more and more detached from football. I used to follow Benfica everywhere and I stopped doing it as I got tired of the violence and everything "extra football" going by. The President of my club is under arrest because of political and financial (personal only, I hope) scandals, which further adds to my detachment feelings. The narrative of "not caring for the national team because it represents everything that's bad with our football" or "the national association favors club X which I don't like so fuck them" goes on everywhere. I think most fans care more about their club than their national team. Having this said, the opportunity of seeing your country in the final of a major tournament is something that happens once or twice in a lifetime. The feeling when the ref blew the final whistle against France is hard to describe. I think I fell on the floor in disbelief for like 5 minutes and all of those moments of being a kid and crying because we fell at the EURO semis in 2000, or the final in 2004, or the semis in the World Cup 2006 flashed through my memory. Truly one of the happiest moments of my life. Portugal might never win anything again - I am grateful I experienced that once. Every hardcore football fan should experience that at least once in their lives.

I agree that Pickford might not have the mental strength for it. Portuguese commentators were all over him yesterday. One of them was saying that it was actually impacting England's game when wanting to build from the back, as he would always shoot it with no criteria.

https://punchng.com/benfica-president-vieira-arrested-for-alleged-fraud/

No problem. And let's hope for NUFC also giving you guys some joys next year.

I hope England wins so you guys have the pleasure of seeing your club/country actually winning a trophy and celebrate it for days to come.

All the great England captains have male pattern baldness. Charlton, Shearer, Kane. Interesting. Beckham would be the same, if he didn't go under hair implant surgery.

Why do you guys always boo the other countries' anthems?

Oh ffs stop reminding me of that.

Oh dear, you guys have everything in favor of you. All you have to do is not fucking up.

What do you mean? We won one match. Against Wales, 2-0.

I hate seeing champions that get their way only by defending.

Huh we finished 4th mate, we don't win shit in 4 years now.

Wtf you're talking about, you're English.

Tell me about it. Coming back to club football after an international competition, when your club is in deep shit, is fucking horrible

You guys have everything to reach the final - somewhat easily. Your potential adversaries till reaching it are: Sweden Ukraine Czech Republic Denmark

Holy shit you guys actually did it. Congrats! You'll be European Champions the same way Portugal was 5 years ago. Defending and praying.

On point. They were * constantly * with a winger having no opposition, against us, after throwing the ball around a couple of times.

I can feel your pain, buddy. (I'm Portuguese).

Oh, seems like Southgate is your british version of Fernando Santos. Horrible starting XI.

Thank God we don't have to play England in Wembley. Portugal x England matches usually take years away from me.

WTF was that?