Embarrasment is even better! But I know how and what you mean, and the stuff with “shame” came from my memories of Gijón (and Córdoba) and how those events are still being reported in Germany, not what you said. As I wrote: no reproach intended. This is my own idée fixe. That game has had an undue influence on my perspective of football. I am really still angry about it. A couple of Algerians apart I may be the most angry person about it in the planet.
Embarrassment is really the perfect word.
Not that you are ever going to convince most Argentinians or even Brazilians of that.
Case in point the front page of the late, lamented El Gráfico Magazine when we lost 0-5 against Colombia:
(Verguenza = shame)
And for Brazilians:
“Vergonha” = “Verguenza”
Everything turned out to be ok, but we had at least a week of extreme anxiety while waiting for exam results.
QED.
I do.
And I very glad to read that! Waiting for the pictures of the tattoo or it didn’t happen.
As a football romantic and village dweller, I love underdog stories like this: Mjällby, a club from a village of 1379 souls, wins the Swedish championship:
They will play next years Champions League qualification, their first international games ever.
That’s just beautiful.
That’s as good as the New Zealand WC team from 1982. ISTR that all the players were amateurs, at least in the aspect that they all had ‘day jobs’.
Well, nobody’s biting on this in the sports trivia thread, so I’ll try here.
What European football club currently has the longest non-losing streak in home games in UEFA-sanctioned European competitions? (The streak currently stands at 31; 25 wins and 6 draws; the team has never in its history lost a home European match)
This is what throws me off, so this team is a relative newcomer on the European scene and hasn’t lost its first 31 home games. I’m drawing a blank.
ETA: I’m thinking about what city in Europe would have a significant home advantage, climatically or geographically, like Quito in Bolivia where they play all their qualifiers, but I can’t think of any.
No idea… 31 home European matches is reasonably long. Maybe some team that’s been playing in the UEFA League or Conference League? Like @EinsteinsHund I’m thinking some Eastern European team, or one from way up north. But I can’t think of one that is both new to the scene and good enough to have not lost at home.
ETA: Or maybe a team that used to be good but hasn’t actually been in Europe for awhile? Like Leeds or something? But there were in the Champions League at one point and I’m sure weren’t undefeated at home during that time.
Quito is the capital of Ecuador, you are thinking of La Paz.
Yes, you’re right, brainfart. 
It happens to best of us.
I would guess a team that did not play Champions League/Europa Cup, but only UEFA Cup (or whatever it is called now), probably some years ago. And concerning La Paz style home advantage, UEFA is Europe: don’t deprive the rival of oxygen but make it cold. Scandinavia, Russia or Kazakhstan, perhaps. Maybe even Scotland?
Oooooh I know I know
Might be giving the game away somewhat just by replying.
And tonight we are 3 0 down at home to Charlton and what the hell are we doing this season. Terrible.
Of course you do! 
For an additional clue, the team in question did lose at home in a European competition of sorts… to Port Vale.
Ok, this clinched it. I wouldn’t have thought that it was an English team.
Is it Qarabag? They are currently riding high in the CL and i don’t imagine the long trip to Azerbaijan is easy for their opponents.
If not maybe one of the Norweigan sides, though the Port Vale thing is quite a curveball.