I haven’t seen a Spanish dagger like that since I was in Savannah observing the 2.5m evergreen shrub, _yucca gloriosa_, that sometimes goes by that nickname #UEFAEuro2024 #euros #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa #euros2024 #euro2024

I haven’t seen England swipe one from Spain like this since Article X of the Peace of Utrecht ceded Gibraltar in 1714 #Euro2024 #euros #UEFAEuro2024 #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa #Euros2024

I haven’t seen Spain break through a soft English defense like this since Bernardo de Gálvez’s army besieged Pensacola and captured West Florida from the British Empire in 1781 #EURO2024 #EuroCup #CopaDeEuropa #Soccer #football #UEFAEuro2024 #euros #euros2024

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

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 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 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

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 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 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 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 #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