Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero – “Seize the Day, putting as little trust as possible in the future”

Horace,

(from Wikipedia.)

Don’t worry now about the what ifs, or what may be be to come, not now the self doubt or concern for the unseen. Now take the day, by the throat, and take it down.

The whole country has watched enthralled as the England team has slowly meshed into a unit of talent and resolve. There is a unspoken alliance of quietness and focus. Can it be that what we are seeing is the full maturing of the hope we have all held so dear. To see a team that represents the strengths of the English professional game, with the young men from our towns and cities winning .

There is some level that the game is played at where the forces that govern the outcome are ethereal, about the spirit of the day, about fate and destiny. There are unsayable outcomes, possibilities that haunt our nightmares but you have
but you have to believe. You have to seize the day .

We know the players, we know the set up and know the opposition. In Kiev, in Ukraine, in a stadium out east, just about in Europe, the England players have to take on Italy. In London, in England, we are not talking about it. There is nothing left to say.

Everyone knows the time, everyone knows that England are playing Italy. Everyone will be watching it. Everyone will be hoping that England can go on.

The players carry all that with them. The England fans will be Kiev, the team will be in Kiev, the hearts of all England are with them. Now Engalnd now.

It is time. Seize the day.

Come On England. Come On.

Winning the Euros in 2012.