I’ve been having a debate with my friends recently, about whether Euro 2008 would be any more interesting to us non-footy fans, if England had made it.  The consensus is, sadly, (I must say, my sample here is 90% women, and we’re being far too stereotypical in our views here) that we would have had some great WAG moments, if we had made it!  Surely, David would have earned some more caps and the Posh versus Colleen saga would have continued…   Posh would have shown us the latest designer ensemble that we could neither fit nor afford, and Colleen would model the one we could, but wouldn’t want to.   And we would have had some great fashion tips, in the guise of the latest animal print shell suit to buy.  Weirdly, the second most frequent comment was about goal celebrations.  Even my fellow yummy mummies remember Peter Crouch’s weird 1980’s style robot dance, and want to see more (though maybe that’s just perhaps because we think he and Abby are such a cute (if not amazingly gravitationally mis-matched) couple).  Men, on the other hand, seem quite interested in the actual line-up. Amazing!  Would Beckham get more caps? Would he score at all?  Would we have an amazing 16 year olds to suddenly be called up and impress the socks off everyone?  I’m not sure if I’m sad England’s not in it, or just non-plussed.   But I will admit, the kids love some of the bits of the official Euro 2008 website (euro2008.uefa.com) though we’ve had good fun developing our own board games that are WAY better than their rather dull memory game!

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