English Soccer Fan Not Having Any Buyers' Remorse From Premature Euro Championship Tattoo

It's a tale as old as time. Someone gets cocky about their team's chances of winning a championship and they decide, "Hey, this is such a sure thing that I may as well get my championship tattoo now," only for their team to fumble the bag and lose.

Unfortunately, I feel like these people tend to fly under the radar, but the BBC did its due diligence to catch up with one guy who was so convinced that England was destined to win the UEFA Euro 2024 tournament that he got some ink.

England lost in the final on Sunday against Spain by a score of 2-1.

Nonetheless, Dan Thomas of Swindon in Wiltshire, still says he's proud of his tattoo of the Henri Delaunay Cup along with the text, "England Euro 2024 Winners."

"We came close, I don't regret the tattoo," Thomas said. "If anything, I don't think it'd be hard to change the four into an eight in four years' time. I won't be covering it up. Absolutely no regrets and I still love it."

Dan sounds like a good sport, but that definitely sounds like the kind of answer you give a couple of days after a soul-crushing loss.

I went out to eat Sunday night and the restaurant I went to was full of England fans. We walked in right as Spain was being given the championship trophy, and let me tell you, those poor blokes — to borrow one of their terms — were bumming. Hard.

Even with a wall of beer taps lining the wall, you'd think someone had ripped a deuce on their digestive biscuit, so to speak.

I felt pretty bad, but then my Cuban sandwich arrived at the table and then that was pretty much all I thought about. 

Man, was it good…

Anyway, Thomas seems to have worked through the stages of grieving to "acceptance."

Here's to hoping he can find some tattoo artist to turn that four into an eight in a few years.