Category: Women’s European Championship 2025
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#34. “Sweet Maisie Adam. Wah! Wah! Wah!…”
The DadLadTour (Now Actually In Switzerland) Day 1 (Part 3) – Zürich – Excitement Builds For The Match The Match – The Lionesses take on The Netherlands July 9th 2025 The queues to get into Stadion Letzigrund are rammed. Thankfully our designated gate is not as busy as those we’ve just passed. We are quickly…
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#33. “The Roof Is Coming Off…”
***APOLOGIES FOR TAKING SO LONG TO UPDATE THE BLOG . THE TRIP HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY JAM PACKED AND MANIC. THOUGH I HAVE BEEN WRITING IN MY NOTEBOOK I HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO TYPE UP ALL OUR EXPERIENCES YET. BUT I AM DOING THIS AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE…*** The DadLadTour (Now Actually In Switzerland) Day…
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#32. “Lucky. Lucky. Lucky”
The DadLadTour (Now Actually In Switzerland) Day 1 (Part 1) – Manchester to Zürich 9th July 2025 The alarm I set on my phone goes off. At 0430…Even though half asleep, I slap the screen silencing whatever ghastly tune I set for it to play. Well, the track is one from my iPhone and is…
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#31. “One Day Away From Your Alps….”
8th July 2025 0930 hours. As the title of our latest blog piece gently suggests, The DadLadTour will soon be in Switzerland. In little more than 24 hours GrumpPa and #SonInLawNo1 will be breathing fresh Alpine air and marvelling at the beauty of the Swiss landscape. Woohoo!! Months of planning and expectation and all the…
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#30. “Hey, What’s Going On?….”
Hey! It wasn’t supposed to start like this. But, somewhere between July 31st 2022 at a euphoric Wembley and today in Zürich, that particular memo wasn’t passed on to the French women’s team. Or, more likely, it was passed on to them and, by virtue of simply being French, they chose to completely ignore the…
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#29. “Foolish Games We Had To Play….”
0918 hours, Saturday. July 5th. It’s Day 4 of Euro 2025. The Lionesses enter the tournament at 2000 (BST) today. I am excited and nervous in roughly equal measure; my excitement just about outweighing my apprehension. Our girls face France in their first game in what many have dubbed “The Group of Death” (GoD). There…
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#28. “Guess Who’s Back….”
OK, hands up. Who else winced and, shocked, put their hands to their mouths in minute 90+1 of England versus Jamaica yesterday? And, like me, were you mumbling words akin to, “Oh, no! No! Please not. That was horrible!” I suspect a great many Lionesses fans were worried for England’s Beth Mead as she was…
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#27. “The Perfect 10….”
1401 hours: And here they are. All twenty-three players now have their numbers. There are no surprises among them; Alessia Russo retains her preferred 23 shirt, Lucy Bronze stays at 2 and Keira Walsh once more wears the number 4 shirt. Leah Williamson will wear the 6 shirt. Ella Toone, Manchester United’s favourite lass –…
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#26. “Numbers In My Little Red Book….”
21st June 2025 Last night in bed, while waiting for sleep to claim me and with two fans moving warm air around our bedroom – only slightly cooling it from the heat of an unbearably hot day (27 degrees! In Yorkshire!! At 10pm!!!) – I composed the opening lines to this latest blog entry. As…
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#25. “Let Me Play Among The Stars…”
This will be The Final Post for the DadLadTour blog. Fret not, dear reader. It won’t be the final post. As in the last one, no more to follow. But this is The Final Post. Confused? Then read on and all might – probably not, as I’m a tad emotional as I write this –…
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