One of the joys of Euro 2020? Watching casual football fans suffer

For fair-weather supporters tournaments offer a taste of the pain – as well as the joy – of being a seasoned followerFootball is about pleasure and pain, a zero-sum ball game. The level of joy we feel at a goal or a victory is mirrored precisely in the pain of others. This pain is, in a sense, at the heart of football fandom; for without despair, there can be no joy.I recall Colin Moynihan, as minister for sport in the last years of the Thatcher government, saying something well-mean