England versus Holland tonight

[Dactylion]

Foreigners, especially Americans, but also many Europeans say England when they mean "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" especially the Great Britain bit of it.

Quite - but most of them think that UK, GB, England and London are synonymous - and that Scotland, Wales etc are suburbs of London.

[stek]

A lot of people used to think the Soviet Union and Russia were the same....

[WTFH]

Pays Bas - the low/back country.
Hole land, the back side country.
Nether lands. The back side country.

It's the bottom of Europe, by altitude and name.

[Hobosapien]

20 years since England reached a semi final, in Euro 96. That three lions song going on about 30 years of hurt, it's now 50!

"it's coming home, it's coming home, football's coming home", as sung by the Germans after winning the tournament.

Maybe there really should be a GB team so they can go for gold in the Olympics. The home nations aren't good enough on their own.

Glad it was a relatively poor performance by England v 'Holland'. So tired of all the "this time we can do it" hype as they qualify easily for a tournament, then struggle to get out of the group before getting knocked out on penalties in the quarters, if they're lucky.

[sasguru]

20 years since England reached a semi final, in Euro 96. That three lions song going on about 30 years of hurt, it's now 50!

"it's coming home, it's coming home, football's coming home", as sung by the Germans after winning the tournament.

Maybe there really should be a GB team so they can go for gold in the Olympics. The home nations aren't good enough on their own.

Glad it was a relatively poor performance by England v 'Holland'. So tired of all the "this time we can do it" hype as they qualify easily for a tournament, then struggle to get out of the group before getting knocked out on penalties in the quarters, if they're lucky.

This team actually does have some talent compared to the previous so-called "golden generation". Even in yesterday's match they showed they could take apart, at least once, a Nether Regions team which was well drilled at defending. The weakness is letting in easy goals.
That weakness isn't going to get fixed by the Euros though.