Who’s laughing now?
Chris Coleman is skitting, Hal Robson-Kanu is pissing himself and Gareth Bale is guffawing into his hands.
But the Metro sit stony-faced after publishing this pessimistic preview of Wales vs. Belgium that foresaw no path for Coleman’s side to progress past the quarter-final stage.
The article particularly annoyed Welsh fans because the newspaper is meant to service the whole of the UK, and as such you’d assume they’d be on the side of all the home countries.
But not according to the column in question.
Not only did the piece mock Welsh football and expect them to be ‘demolished’ by Belgium, but it suggested Roy Hodgson and his now-former English squad should cheer the result as revenge for the Wales’ players celebrations of England’s elimination at the hands of Iceland.
Scribed by JP Shaw, it reads as follows:
“Roy Hodgson’s last act as England coach should really be to film his squad cheering wildly directly after Belgium demolish Wales. It should be his last act, but I doubt he could even organise that.
“It’s astonishing to think Wales made the quarter-finals having been the only team England actually outclassed in the entire competition.
“Man-for-man, Belgium are in a different league to Wales (mostly the Premier League). Class will tell.”
Seeing as Wales achieved a glorious 3-1 victory to march onto the semi-final stage, many Welsh supporters were eager to ram the offending words back down from whence they came..
I guess JP Shaw from the @MetroUK was right.
Class will always tell in the end.#EURO2016 pic.twitter.com/pFyxXhxQ5t
— Jamie Phillips (@JNPhillips4) July 1, 2016
So JP Shaw can go a do one!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 pic.twitter.com/MoSzfyf7tC
— K a t • C z e k a j (@ItsmeKitty__) July 1, 2016
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