Reduced to a screaming seven-year-old

Jun 29, 2021

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Jimbo, Carl Anka and Daniel Storey try and make sense of quite possibly the greatest day of tournament football ever.

Switzerland knock out world champions France on penalties after a 3-3 draw in Bucharest. We try to explain the magnificence of Xhaka and Pogba. And would France have fared better with Laporte?

Speaking of Laporte, his Spanish side beat Croatia 5-3 after extra time. How to explain a free-scoring team with a struggling striker?

England and Germany face off at Wembley on Tuesday. Raphael Honigstein tells us why he’s worried about German improv up against a heavily rehearsed England.

Plus Sweden Ukraine, Dutch despair from 2000 and attempting to explain the own goal epidemic.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Switzerland knock out France on penalties (04m 30s)

• PART 2: Croatia 3-5 Spain (19m 00s)

• PART 3a: England v Germany preview with Raphael Honigstein (31m 30s)

• PART 3b: Sweden v Ukraine preview (47m 00s)

• PART 4: The odds with Paddy Power (51m 30s)

• PART 5: On This Day – Toldo and Totti torment the Dutch (54m 00s)

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