Of course Brexit. Excluding Scotland who didn't even qualify, all the British national teams present at the 2016 European Championships in France qualified for the round of XNUMX. They therefore remain in the Europe of football, just as tomorrow their fellow citizens vote to remain in that policy, England (the most accredited of the three on the card), Wales, who had been missing from a major international event since the 58 World Cup and who even finished first in the group ahead of the English, and the surprising northern Ireland, who reached the quarter-finals at the 58 World Cup and had never participated in the European Championships.
Precisely on the eve of the day in which permanence in the European Union is called into question, the representatives of the United Kingdom, in terms of football, on the other hand, they have never felt so inside Europe, also favored by the formula for the first time with 24 teams and by the possibility of passing the first round even finishing third. Opportunity exploited to the full by Northern Ireland, who could not do more in a difficult group with Germany and Poland: the national team once represented by George Best won against Ukraine and with 3 points and a goal difference, nothing the deserved repechage is guaranteed.
The fireworks were made by Wales instead Gareth Bale, which despite being defeated by its English cousins in the second match, closed the group in first place guaranteeing the part on the softest card of the scoreboard that leads to the final: between now and July 10 it will avoid Italy, France, Spain, Germany and England itself. Hodgson's national team is the most famous of the British but his European has so far been mediocre: apart from the victory with Wales, two lackluster draws with Russia and Slovakia. But that's enough (for now) for the Remain.
