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#SmiteTheWorld: Aron Einar Explains Epic Iceland Tattoo
After Euro 2016, an Instagram post by the team captain Aron Einar Gunnarsson got over 10,000 likes. It was a giant back tattoo featuring the national flag, and the country’s coat of arms, which shows the four guardians of Iceland. The bull…
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England Shakes As Iceland Beckons In The World Cup
The 27 of June 2016, a day when Old Blighty copped a Blighty and feebly left Europe for the second time in a week, will live in the memory of every Englishman until he dies. And with the World Cup coming up…
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Roy Hodgson Has Painful Flashbacks While Enduring Icelandic Viking Clap
Húh! Yesterday, Championship team Bristol City trashed Premier League team Crystal Palace in the English Football League Cup 4-1. Playing for the victorious Robins was our very own national team’s blond battler Hörður Björgvin Magnússon. Having arrived at Ashton Gate last year,…
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Looking Back At The Euros With Our Greatest Football Experts
One is the elder statesman of football, the other the commentator who lost his mind at the Euros. Together they review the incredible rise of the Icelandic national team—one year since Iceland beat England 2-1. Bjarni Felixson, aka Bjarni Fel, is the…
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Roy Hodgson Still Smarting From The Smiting
“I never want to hear the word Iceland again,” former England manager Roy Hodgson disclosed in a new interview, referring to the trouncing England received from Iceland during the UEFA Euro football competition this year. As many will recall, Iceland smote England…
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Icelandic Football Fans Nominated Award For Chant
The so-called “Viking chant” that captured the imagination during the UEFA Euros has earned Icelandic football fans a nomination for a new award. BBC reports that Den Haag, FC Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund fans are also up for the “Fans of the…
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Iceland Defeating England Tops British Twitter Trends Of 2016
No topic blew up Twitter in the UK quite like Iceland’s crushing defeat of England in the UEFA Euros earlier this year. BBC reports that 128,000 tweets per minute were fired off in the wake of the match. On a global scale,…
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Ball From Iceland v. England UEFA Match Premieres At National Museum
If you were one of the many who witnessed Iceland’s 2-1 smiting of England last month, and you happen to be in Iceland this weekend, you’re in luck. The Iceland National Museum has just announced that the ball played in that legendary…
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10% Of Nation Greet Footballing Heroes; Team Eyes Russia 2018
Iceland’s footballing heroes came to Reykjavík last night after their improbable run into the final eight teams of Euro 2016. Going unbeaten in their first four Euro matches at the finals makes Iceland the tournament’s second best debutante nation of all time,…
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Iceland Team Returns To Reykjavík Today For Celebration At Arnarhóll
Iceland’s football team will return from the Euro 2016 tournament today, having been beaten 5-2 by an imperious France side at the Stade de France last night. They may not have claimed the trophy, but they’ll be greeted as national heroes nonetheless.…
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Match Review—Politely Gifting First Half To France, Iceland Win Second 2-1
So there it is—Iceland’s improbable, exciting run at Euro 2016 came to an end with a truly glorious fixture. After beating England, they’d earned a glamorous quarter final showdown with the former World Cup-winning hosts at the Stade de France in Paris.…
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Match Preview: THE SACKING OF PARIS—Iceland vs. France
And so, the next day of destiny in Iceland’s #EuroSaga approaches. After the giant-slaying of England, it’s time for a real blockbuster: a huge, historic showdown with the hosts at the Stade de France in Paris. We at Grapevine have a wide…
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Iceland Smites T-Shirt Now On Sale!
Update: Now womens sizes and 2XL/3XL! Euro 2016 has been a lot of fun in Iceland, and especially here at the Grapevine. We’ve been having the time of our lives supporting the team, enjoying the atmosphere of downtown Reykjavík, tweeting a lot…
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Olympian Will Swim Around Iceland After They Beat France On Sunday
An Olympic swimming champion has pledged to swim the circumference of Iceland after the country beats France at the Euros this Sunday. The Guardian reports that Yannick Agnel, the 200m freestyle swimming Olympic champion, has announced his intent on Twitter. Si les…
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My Own Private Brexit: An English Euro 2016 Defector Speaks
As an Englishman who decamped to Iceland permanently several years ago, the question of “but… why?” has been a fixture in almost every first-meeting conversation I’ve had in that time. I’ve developed a stock answer, accordingly: “You know what? I just really…
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Match Review: LET ENGLAND SHAKE—#ISL Euro Conquest Continues
So. It happened. We did it. BREXIT 2 is no longer just a funny meme. It’s… reality? Actually, we’re not sure if this is real, or a Matrix-like virtual dreamland Valhalla. Here’s what went down, told on our Twitter. The day of…
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Thierry Henry Says Iceland Are No Pushover: “Be Careful. You Never Know.”
The pundits on England’s flagship football show, Match of the Day, had some interesting opinions on this evening’s show, ahead of tomorrow’s game. Talking about their chances, former England striker Alan Shearer was supremely confident, saying: “It’s a very good draw. It…
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Match Preview: “BREXIT 2—THE SMITING”
Iceland’s dramatic late goal against the Austrians was one of the moments of the Euro 2016 tournament, and fired the team to a second-place group finish, below Hungary and above Portugal (can I get a… #RonaldoTears?). But as well as being a…
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“Football In Its Purest Form”: An English Perspective On Iceland’s #EuroSaga
Following the conclusion of the group stages, it would be fair to say that Euro 2016 has been something of a mixed bag, so far. There have been spectacular moments—like Luka Modrić’s stunning volley against Turkey, Daniel Sturridge’s stoppage time winner for…
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Match Review: Now THAT’S What I Call Smiting—Iceland Go Through
So: one full day after Iceland’s dramatic, nerve-wracking, mind-blowing, last-gasp victory against the bravely battling Austrian side yesterday, our hands have finally stopped shaking for long enough to write a recap. Here’s our blow-by-blow account of what went down. The tone was…
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What Was That Commentator Who Lost His Mind Actually Saying?
As Iceland’s last-gasp second goal went in against Austria in the 94th minute last night, it caused one Icelandic TV commentator, Gummi Ben, to completely lose the plot on live television. His impassioned, high-pitched account of the goal caught the attention of…
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Iceland Vs. Austria: The View From A Reykjavík Living Room
For the epic occasion of Iceland Vs. Austria at Euro 2016, we asked regular Grapevine illustrator Lóa (and the fastest pencil in the west… of Iceland) to quickdraw some match commentary for our Instagram. She, of course, did us proud. Combined for…
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ICELAND-AUSTRIA PREVIEW: THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF SMITING
After Iceland’s huge landslide 1-1 victory against Portugal and a historic, hard-fought 2-0 draw with themselves against Hungary, next on the smiting list are the yodelling hill-folk of Austria. Opposition research has commenced. Wow, official languages of #AUT are German, Hungarian, Austrian…