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England's Euros exit made for some amusing newspaper headlines

Leander Schaerlaeckens
England's Euros exit made for some amusing newspaper headlines

The pattern is predictable, ticking over like clockwork every two years.

England has an underwhelming team yet somehow conjures a few good results before a major tournament, and the English get their hopes up. Egged on by the tabloids, they convince themselves they can win the upcoming tournament, but then England crashes out "prematurely" even though the team was probably never all that good to begin with. As a result, the country is disheveled and the newspapers slay the team and their coach.

Repeat.

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So today, June 28, the day after England was bounced from Euro 2016 by puny Iceland in the Round of 16, is a sort of tabloid sports page Groundhog Day. It's the same stuff every two years. All that changes are the pictures and the names.

Let's have a look at what the Fleet Street editors have come up with to underscore the misery of the English and bemuse the rest of the world.

Metro was one of many to link the Brexit and Euro exit.

The Telegraph decided to go with an Englishman who actually won a game, relegating the loss to the top banner.

Telegraph Sport, however, spoke of "England's greatest humiliation."

The Daily Mail had a winner and some losers.

The Mail's sports page, on the other hand, is glad to be rid of departing manager Roy Hodgson.

The Daily Star disappointed with its headline, doing no better than a crummy pun on Iceland doing a lot of fishing.

The Guardian also thought England was humiliated.

The Daily Express, on the other hand, thought England was merely clueless.

It was apparently England's darkest day, per The Times.

The Independent thought England was out-a lot of stuff.

The Mirror had another Brexity headline, and got some extra R's in there so you could understand that they were talking about ice and being cold and Iceland.

We don't really get this one, but here's The Sun's offering.

We don't get the one from the Sun sports page, either.

In Iceland, meanwhile, the front pages were understandably happier.

"Where will this end?" this one apparently says.

"The adventure continues," declared Morgunbladid.

Leander Schaerlaeckens is a soccer columnist for Yahoo Sports. Follow him on Twitter @LeanderAlphabet.