Chris Gunter hits out over ‘joke’ Euro 2020 format after Wales knocked out
Gunter and his team-mates were thrashed 4-0 by Denmark in the last 16 on Saturday
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Your support makes all the difference.Chris Gunter has called the format of Euro 2020 a “joke” and accused Uefa of letting down Wales
Robert Page’s side bowed out of the cross-continent competition in the last 16 on Saturday with a 4-0 defeat by Denmark in Amsterdam.
It was Denmark’s first game outside their Copenhagen home, while Wales had travelled over 5,300 miles after playing group games in Baku and Rome
“Written off before a bag of air was kicked, 3,000 miles from home,” Gunter, Wales’ most capped men’s player, wrote on Instagram.
“Every nation had fans wherever they went, apart from the 350 who broke government rules and bank accounts to be there, you and us deserved more from this joke set up of a tournament, but who said life was fair.”
Having had little support in Baku and Rome due to coronavirus restrictions, Wales were then told by the Dutch Government that their supporters were banned from entering Holland.
Denmark supporters, however, were allowed in and a small band of Wales fans, who had managed to get into the Johan Cruyff Arena, were vastly outnumbered in a 14,645 crowd.
“Suck it up, keep your chin up, we’ll be alright, trust me on that,” said Charlton defender Gunter, who won his 102nd cap in the final group game against Italy.
“We did not deserve that scoreline but who said life was fair.
“Have a cry, but then smile that we were dining at the top table yet again.
“And smile even more that we’ll be back, and we’ll be the ones with the full stadium belting out our anthem that we all deserve.”