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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Eight

Wow! It has been a week since the opening match already! And what I know for sure about the EURO 2016 matches is that:

• It is held in France
• The host nation played against Romania
• Switzerland scored against Albania
• Iceland drew against Portugal (and Ronaldo was angry)
• Poland beat Northern Ireland by 1:0 (and Lewandowski was angry)
• Germany played against Poland
• Austria played or will play against Hungary
• Wales will play against Russia

I don’t think I learned anything new about the tournament today. It was simply too busy at work, and during lunch, when one side of the table started talking football, I had the reflex to focus on the other side, discussing books.

Ironically, after one of my colleagues mentioned a dystopian book in which the World’s population (apart from one person of course) had gone blind, my contribution to the discussion was to recommend a play called ‘The Sightless’…