Euro 2020, Roberto Mancini in the «Braveheart» version: Scotland supports Italy in the final

Where the English cheering is oriented for the final of the 2020 European Championships which will see Italy clash with England is easily understood. A little less so is that of the Scots who, after being eliminated from the tournament by the English, they choose to openly take sides in favor of the Azzurri for the Wembley final which will be played on Sunday 11 July starting at 21. The front page of the Scottish newspaper The National in fact, he reaches out for our national team, representing the coach Roberto Mancini in the «Braveheart» version.

The feat described by the newspaper is, of course, to score a victory over Southgate’s team to carry on the same tradition as William Wallace, the Scottish national hero made famous in the 1995 film by Mel Gibson who, in the late 1200s, led the insurrection against Edward I of England and earned the nickname “fearless heart”. Things, as we know, did not go well for him – in 1305 he was, in fact, tried and executed – but the hope of the Scots is that the English cousins, who reached a final of an international demonstration only once, in 1966, will be able to return home defeated.

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“Save us Roberto, you are our last hope, we cannot bear another 55 years of exaltation for a title” we read on The National in reference to England’s 1966 World Cup victory. The final of the Europeans, of course, is just the umpteenth test of a battle that Scotland has waged for centuries to try to disengage from English authority and live independently: a need already expressed during Brexit and which continues today. , extending to all forms.

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