AlexI haven’t seen a Ukrainian side surprise Slovakia like this since Petro Shelest advocated military action against the reforms of Alexander Dubčhek in 1968 #euro2024
I haven’t seen Switzerland shock Germany but then retreat to fecklessness like this since the interwar Swiss government refused to extradite David Frankfurter for the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff at Davos, only to deny Allied planes access to Swiss airspace a few years later #euro2024
I haven’t seen Hungary come through with its back to wall like this since Sándor Petőfi, Pál Vasvári, and Gyula Bulyovszky were given chairs by the students at the University of Law from which to proclaim the 12 Points #euro2024
I haven’t seen Italy so happy to have escaped Croatia with the status quo antebellum since the Governorate of Dalmatia was dissolved after only 2 years #euro2024
I haven’t seen a Georgian side shock Portugal like this since the Soviets supplied the PAIGC with decisive arms in Guinea-Bissau in 1974. #euro2024
I haven’t seen Switzerland slip past an Italian defense like this since Milan was made a protectorate of the Swiss Confederacy in 1512 #euro2024 #soccer #football
I haven’t seen an aging Slovakian side put #England on its back foot like this since the Dual Monarchy forced a fleet of British steamers to evacuate the Serbian army to Corfu and Brindisi in 1915 #euro2024 #football #soccer
I haven’t seen a Georgian side catch Spain off-guard like this since the 55th Army of the Soviet Union went on the offensive against the Francoist Blue Division at the Battle of Krasny Bor #euro2024 #soccer #football
I haven’t seen Portugal resolve a tense gridlocked situation with a Slovene side like this since the Carnation Revolution led to the re-establishment of Portuguese-Yugoslavian relations after a 29-year hiatus #soccer #football #CopaDeEuropa #EURO2024
I haven’t seen Türkiye get this quick a start against an Austrian side since Suleiman the Magnificent’s armies pioneered the use of firearms at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526 #CopaDeEuropa #soccer #football #EURO2024
I haven’t seen Austria go into a 2-0 hole like this since Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire made the first pair of surrenders to the Allied Powers in 1918 #CopaDeEuropa #soccer #football #EURO2024
I haven’t seen Austria get one back this quick since Francis II created the Austrian Empire after the French occupation of the Electorate of Hanover ended the Holy Roman Empire #CopaDeEuropa #soccer #football #EURO2024
I haven’t seen a decisive Turkish save like that since the Treaty of Lausanne finalized the recapture of İzmir from the Greek-administered Smyrna Zone originally mandated by the unratified Treaty of Sèvres #CopaDeEuropa #soccer #football #EURO2024
I haven’t seen Spain get a leg up on Germany like this since the latter’s loss in World War I ended the Moroccan colonial ambitions of Wilhelm II and the Mannesmann brothers. #CopaDeEuropa #soccer #football #EURO2024 #EuroCup
I haven’t seen a German side have a near-miss like that against a group of red-clad Spanish-aligned partisans since the Electorate of Bavaria failed to break through against the Grand Alliance at the Battle of Blenheim #CopaDeEuropa #EURO2024 #soccer #football #EuroCup
I haven’t seen Germany regain ground against Spain like this since the German-Spanish treaty of 1899 mandated the incorporation of Palau, the Mariana Islands, and the Carolines into German New Guinea #CopaDeEuropa #Euro2024 #soccer #football #EuroCup
I haven’t seen a Spanish dagger that devastating since the Gitanos began using the navaja as a combat knife throughout southern Andalusia #CopaDeEuropa #EURO2024 #soccer #football #EuroCup
I haven’t seen France grind one out against Portugal like this since Jean-Andoche Junot captured Lisbon in 1807 on behalf of Napoleon, forcing João VI to move the royal court to Rio de Janeiro
I haven’t seen the Swiss get out ahead of England like this since they withdrew their own EU application (pending since the 1990s) one week before Brexit #EURO2024 #Soccer #Football #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa
I haven’t seen England get one back this quick since Lord Mountbatten led Operation Tiderace to reclaim Singapore after Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945 #Euro2024 #Soccer #Football #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa
I haven’t seen #England resolve a penalty situation under a #Labour government like that since Home Secretary Roy Jenkins abolished capital punishment in 1965 #Soccer #football #CopaDeEuropa #EuroCup #Euro2024 #euros #threeLions
I haven’t seen Türkiye stun the Netherlands like this since a 2017 gathering in Izmit squeezed some oranges to protest the Rutte government denying Turkish officials the right to campaign on Dutch territory for the “yes” side of their 2017 constitutional referendum #EURO2024 #euros #EuroCup #Soccer #Football #CopaDeEuropa
I haven’t seen the Dutch find an opening into Türkiye that paid off like that since the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands sent Cornelius Haga to Constantinople in 1612 to establish relations with the Ottoman Empire #Euro2024 #CopaDeEuropa #euros #EuroCup #Soccer #football
I haven’t seen the Dutch get two back that quickly since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 restored to the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands the holdings in both the Moluccas and Java that Britain had occupied during the Napoleonic Wars #Soccer #football #euros #EURO2024 #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa
I haven’t seen France strike this quickly against Spain since Napoleon used 125 chevaux-légers from the Duchy of Warsaw to besiege the Spanish artillery positions at Somosierra Pass #euros #euro2024 #euros2024 #soccer #football #CopaDeEuropa #EuroCup
I haven’t seen a sequence of Spanish moves that spectacular since I stunned my chess opponent by opening
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5
to complete the Ruy Lopez
#euros #euros2024 #Soccer #Football #CopaDeEuropa #EuroCup #Euro2024
I haven’t seen #England 🏴 and the #Netherlands 🇳🇱 this eager to take on Bourbon-ruled #Spain 🇪🇸 since the War of the Spanish Succession #CopaDeEuropa #euros #Euro2024 #UEFAEuro2024 #EuroCup #football #soccer
I haven’t seen the Dutch surprise England like this since Michiel De Ruyter gained the weather gage at the Battle of Texel to defeat a fleet that was 40 ships larger #CopaDeEuropa #euros #euros2024 #UEFAEuro2024 #euro2024 #football #soccer
I haven’t seen England win a pivotal concession long after the fact like that since the 9 June 1898 convention with the Great Qing awarded the New Territories to the British Empire 57 years after the occupation of Hong Kong Island #euros2024 #EURO2024 #soccer #football #UEFAEuro2024 #euros #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa
I haven’t seen England sneak one in at the very end like that since the inaudible-to-adults 15 KHz tone that precedes the locked runout groove on _Sgt. Pepper_ #CopaDeEuropa #euros2024 #euro2024 #eurocup #UEFAEuro2024 #soccer #football
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