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Wales celebrate Euro campaign with open-top bus tour...

Addickted2TheReds
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Not a joke...

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Big achievement getting to the semi's for a population of 3 million.
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Why not?

    As much as I wanted them to lose, their country has got right behind them and is rightly proud of their achievement. Fair play to them.
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    Dazzler21 said:

    Big achievement getting to the semi's for a population of 3 million.

    Massive, no denying that.

    Still not sure about a bus tour though!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,309
    Maybe its for the benefit for the English players in their Squad who have never been to Wales other than for a Football match?
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    I'm sure there was a similar reaction (maybe not a bus) when we were knocked out of Italia 90. Certainly remember seeing images of a huge welcome party at Luton (I think) airport.
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762
    Can't blame them really, it's a pretty big achievement
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,309
    Tin Pot
  • Jodaius
    Jodaius Posts: 562
    Surely they should take the bus to the home towns of each of the squad members. You know, Acton, Amersham, Southampton, Smethwick etc.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,309
    I think again to be fair is that Ashley Williams doesnt look like being in the Premier League Transfer Rumours this summer.

    Probably one of the best Defenders at the competition and would be perfect for Liverpool / Arsenal / Everton etc.
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,446
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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Well England should have one as well then, as they also won f*** all.
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    Good on them and so they should

    England Would need fucking armoured bus parade
  • SOTF
    SOTF Posts: 1,149
    I think it's a great. They've hugely over achieved and it's an opportunity for the players to thank fans for their support during the tournament.

    The open top bus from a policing perspective is one of the easiest ways to organise a public event of this scale in short notice.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    FIFA rankings in brackets

    Wales (26th) v Slovakia (24th) won (not a surprise)
    Wales v England (11th) lost (expected result)
    Wales v Russia (29th) won (expected result)
    Wales v N.Ireland (25th) won (not a surprise)
    Wales v Belgium (2nd) won (outstanding result)
    Wales v Portugal (8th) lost (expected result)

    By my reckoning, one outstanding result and otherwise nothing really surprising.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    The Sheffield Wednesday of international football.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Scotland have one planned for when we actually fucking qualify!

    It'll be some sort of hoverbus by then...
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Apparently they're borrowing a bus from Sheffield Wednesday.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    I don't understand the issue. Of course there will be an open top bus. Wales reaching the semi-finals of the European Championships is a big deal. If they create for themselves a special trophy (like Sheffield Wednesday did), then we can start to laugh at them.

    The players celebrating Iceland's win was tinpot. This is fine.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Fair play to them. Great achievement for a team that hadn't even qualified for a tournement since 1958.

    Imagine what Sheffield Wednesday would have had planned.

  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    no for me. They haven't won anything.
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  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    not for me either, as people mentioned, well done they done very well but didn't win anything.

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Agreed. They merely delayed their inevitable thrashing slightly beyond ours
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    England did there's in a laundry basket.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Fuck sake, sheep smugglers will kane it, fill yer boots!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    image

    Talking of open top bus celebrations, the thing that always got me is why our 1947 bus was a single decker. You couldn't even see most of the team :smile:
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,342
    There may not have been open top busses available then. The war didn't finish until 1945 .
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,309
    Starinnaddick said:

    There may not have been open top busses available then. The war didn't finish until 1945 .

    Yet the above was in 1947?
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    edited July 2016
    130,000 people expected to turn out for it.

    yes they've done well but on paper they've won

    5 out of 7 games and only really 2/3 against superior opponents.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    What a day... the atmosphere, it was rammed!

    image
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,309
    soapy_jones said:

    What a day... the atmosphere, it was rammed!

    image

    Ewe thought it was good then?

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