Explained.

Like everyone in the United Kingdom, I was gutted when we lost to Spain in the football. I really wanted us to win. Some of the other matches leading up to the finals, some of them I’d watched and some I couldn’t bear to watch.

When I did watch, it was always lovely to watch the players as they hugged and celebrated when they scored. It didn’t matter where they were born, or the colour of their skin. A team member was a team member. It wasn’t always like this. Thankfully throughout the decades sport has brought cultures, ages, people from around the world to come together in unity.

Gareth Southgate was criticized, throughout the games, but I don’t know enough of football to know if he was good or bad. In the finals, I heard one of the commentators say “Gareth is a Genius,” This was said, because the player he sent out during the match, scored within a very short time after coming on, that would be our only goal of the finals.

It was lovely to see the English flags hanging out the windows on my road, it made me proud. Since Charles became King, I have had union jacks in my car on both sides of my windows near the front. I wear my union jacks with Pride. I have wanted them in my car for a long time, but they were not in the shops till Charles became King. I bought a pack of napkins union jacks and have placed one of the left and the other on the right, with my poppies. They stay there forever. So, the following day, after the union jacks were removed from the windows, my union jacks, and poppies in my car remined.

The day after, we lost. My son Daniel explained to me, “We lost, because Gareth, put the players in positions on the pitch, where they are not used to be.” I said, “You mean it is like putting the man who usually plays in goal, playing on a different part of the pitch?” He said, “Yes, that is why we lost, because they were not where they usually are, so where Gareth put them, they were weak and not playing with their strengths.”

When he explained it to me, it made perfect sense. Now I know why we lost.