Nick Collins
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371 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2016
last heard 8 Jun
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and it's the end of the phony war and thank goodness for that because it's great to build up to a tournament but it has been going on for a long time as you said that the warm-up games now we we know that we're off to Marseille tomorrow the whole thing will start for real tomorrow night with the opening game yeah it will feel like Euro 2016 is underway and then
The whole tournament takes on a life of itself and it's just a case of jumping onto the roller coaster, hanging on and waiting until you get thrown off at the other end.
But it's hugely exciting now and you get a sense of that actually from even the England players because of the simple reason most of them or half of them have never been to a major tournament before.
It's fantastic for them.
Well, you get into a routine as simple as that, I suppose.
Early starts, late finishes, take it all on board and enjoy it.
It is an amazing experience being part of a tournament like this.
Maybe at the time you're not saying, I'm enjoying every minute as we go, but
When you finish, at the other end, you look back at it, you do go, oh, that was an amazing experience.
Yeah, my first tournament was Italia 90, the closing stages of that.
Then Euro 96, France 98, away we go.
You name it, I've been there.
If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't keep coming back.
And that's the bottom line.
That's a good question, actually, Andy.
I'm not over-optimistic, but having said that, I have really sensed a growing and rising tide of optimism
amongst England players that perhaps they're not going to come out and say they're going to win it or anything like that but they do believe they can do themselves justice this time around and hey, we'd settle for that after 2014 and 2010 in the World Cups when you can't say England did themselves justice.
The most optimistic I've ever been was 2004.
I did feel England had the strongest team at that tournament
And nothing I saw on the pitch really made me change my mind.
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