Euro 2020 final: What to watch instead if you’re not into football

There’s a match on Sunday, in case you didn’t know (Picture: Shaun Botterill – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)

Football-haters, we get it – these past few weeks have been rough for you.

Every time you’ve tried to plan a drink with your friends, they’ve demanded the chosen pub have 360 degree TV screens. You haven’t had a Zoom call in work that hasn’t ended with someone saying ‘It’s coming home’. And even when you’ve managed to avoid the match, you’ve flicked on the telly afterwards for some respite to find out it’s gone to extra time.

Sunday night will be even worse, as pretty much everybody will be tuned into ITV or BBC One to watch England take on Italy at Wembley Stadium in the Euro 2020 final – and even Love Island has been postponed because of the match.

Of course, you could just join in to see whether football really is coming home, but if you’re adamant that you don’t give a hoot, we’ve got you covered.

Here’s what’s on the telly Sunday night at the same time as the match.

BBC Two

BBC Two has got your back, by airing Our Wild Adventures at 8pm after Wimbledon. The show will see the BBC’s wildlife presenters reflecting on their most amazing trips around the world.

After that, at 9pm, BBC Two is airing The Duchess starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, which will even take you past penalties, should they happen.

Fancy a repeat of Celebrity Gogglebox? (Picture: Channel 4)

Channel 4

Perhaps realising they’re fighting a losing battle with most of the population, Channel 4 is whacking on a repeat from 7.30pm to 9pm, airing Scotland’s Coastal Railways with Julie Walters. But let’s face it, who doesn’t love Julie Walters?

Choosing something even bleaker than penalties, the fourth episode of season four of The Handmaid’s Tale is on at 9pm, followed by a repeat of Celebrity Gogglebox at 10pm.

E4

From 8pm to 10pm, E4 is airing the Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart comedy Central Intelligence, followed up by Naked Attraction at 10pm.

Because even if the footie gets embarrassing, there’s always people getting their kit off for potential dates on the other side.

Channel 5

For an entirely different pace, Channel 5 is airing the comedy drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, about a group of pensioners to relocate to India for their retirement. The film stars Dev Patel, Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Dame Maggie Smith, and starts at 8pm.

Netflix

If you’re a Netflix subscriber, there’s plenty of fresh titles on the streamer to distract you from the chants outside your winsow.

The Oscar-winning Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, has landed on Netflix, and tells the story of an actor and a stunt double living in Hollywood at the same time that Charles Manson is building his ‘family’.

If horror is more your thing, the seriously creepy Midsommar starring Florence Pugh is now available to stream. Directed by Ari Aster, who also directed the horrifying Hereditary, Midsommar follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a festival, only to find themselves surrounded by a pagan cult.

You can even treat yourself to a horror double bill, just in case the match does go into extra time, with Fear Street Part One and Two.

The installments 1994 and 1978, based on the books by RL Stine, have dropped on Netflix, with the third chapter of the slasher trilogy, 1666, out next week.

Or, you know, you could just binge Friends again.

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Amazon Prime

This week’s biggest release on Amazon Prime is the sci-fi blockbuster The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Pratt.

The film follows a group of modern day soldiers and civilians who are sent into the future to fight an alien army. And none of them are wearing three lions on a shirt.

Apple TV+

OK, so you might not like actual football, but sporting comedy Ted Lasso could be the perfect compromise.

The comedy became a surprise smash last year, and follows an American football coach (Jason Sudeikis) who gets put in charge of an English premier league side. But it’s not all about the football, and much of its appeal lies in how lovely the characters are.

The second season is out later this month, so you could use your Sunday night to catch up on season one.

There’s a whole lot of Golden Girls to binge (Picture: Touchstone Tv/Whitt-Thomas-Harris Prod/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Disney Plus

Loki is in full swing, so you could start binge-watching the adventures of Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief.

Or, if you want something gentler, all seven seasons of The Golden Girls have dropped on Disney Plus, so ‘thank you for being a friend’ can replace ‘it’s coming home’ as your earworm for the next few days.

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