Stock up on Red Bull and get your excuses ready for calling in sick at work because Euro 2016 is around the corner and for expats that means one thing – getting up at stupid o’clock in the morning to watch months of mindless optimism crushed in 90 minutes. Unless you’re Scottish, of course, in which case your hopes were crushed months ago.
England should go through from their group, which means they probably won’t, whereas Wales are unlikely to progress from the same group, which means they probably will.
And Ireland have about as much chance of qualifying from their group of death as, say, Leicester City have of winning the Premier League.
So get your money on Martin O’Neill’s men right now and you’ll be loaded in four weeks’ time.
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