The Beautiful Pool

Now that the first game is less than a month away, it’s time to start working on the Beautiful Pool for Euro 2024. There are many ways to approach it.

For example, you could look to the wisdom of crowds and make your picks based on the bookmakers’ odds. At this point, that would lead you to favour England’s Three Lions (what??? That can’t be right.).

Or you could take a more intuitive approach and select based on the most stylish uniforms, like these:

Euro 2024 kits revealed: Home and away shirts for England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Belgium and more | Football News | Sky Sports

Or, you could do some actual research on the performance of each team. The link below to the Guardian would be good place to start:

Euro 2024 power rankings: a look at the 24 teams going to Germany | Euro 2024 | The Guardian

Orrrrr….

You could just choose to believe that this time it will be different for your team¹.

Ya dancer! ‘Mon Scotland

However you want to attack the problem, will be OK with me.

Everything you need to know about the Beautiful Pool (including downloads of the entry forms) is now available here…

Euro 2024 Rules and Regulations

Good luck and please tell your friends,

Stuart

1. A phenomenon that Maple Leafs fans are intimately familiar with.

In the olden days, I used to run pools for the World Cup and the Euro Championship. Then things changed and I didn’t¹. Now, things have changed again and the “Beautiful Pool” will rise from the dead, for the 2024 European Championship.

Get ready! Tell your friends².

And because everything has to have an AI spin these days, here are some pics of Donald Trump scoring the winning goal. Cause he is a winner³.

1. But Dr. Tiessen very ably stepped in during my absence.
2. Definitely! Tell your enemies too; I don’t care so long as they pay the entrance fee. Send me their email addresses, or better yet get them to subscribe to this blog.
3. In his own dark twisted fantasies, that is.