Opening ceremonies are usually one of the lower points of major tournaments, but pretty much everyone’s in agreement that Euro 2016’s was particularly poor.
Any non-football fans channel surfing just before eight must have thought they had stumbled upon some sort of nightmarish, post-apocalyptic, LSD-infused school disco when they arrived at the coverage of the Euro 2016 opening ceremony.
David Guetta, who wrote and performed the tournament’s official theme, provided the musical entertainment (not sure that’s the right word) in the Stade de France by playing knacker choonz that you would normally hear blaring out of the boot of a Honda Civic in an Aldi carpark in the heart of British suburbia at 4 am on a Saturday morning.
To add to the surreal nature of the performance, there were also dancers dressed up as giant flowers and other more terrifying creatures who used what little restricted movement they had left in their uncomfortable-looking costumes to throw shapes to slightly outdated smash hits such as “Titanium”.
Unsurprisingly, the good people of Twitter were not too impressed with the ceremony, with some of the French even going as far to apologise for the existence of the internationally renownd DJ.
It’s not your fault, Philippe
I wish to apologize unreservedly for David Guetta. But that was some Marseillaise. #losingmyneutrality
— Philippe Auclair (@PhilippeAuclair) June 10, 2016
The Specials would have been an improvement
#EURO2016 David O'Guetta pic.twitter.com/Qy22PJycCL
— Alan Reid (@alanreid) June 10, 2016
You’re a wizard, David
https://twitter.com/TwitAj93/status/741344413469814784
You can’t deny that he’s not good at turning knobs, in fairness.
https://twitter.com/NutmegRadio/status/741346521577295872
Harsh
Sorry but if your country is the birthplace of Daft Punk and you wheel out David Guetta, you deserve to lose every single game #Euro2016
— Daniel Graham Parker (@dgp202) June 10, 2016
Not sure this would have been rated PG, though
David Guetta is Willy Wonka in this sweet factory nightmare of an opening #EURO2016
— Jonzi D tox (@Jonzid) June 10, 2016
Genius!
Do you know what this football match needs, some David Guetta…
I'd like to know who thought of that, and their justification behind it!
— Kristian Sturt (@FootieWriter) June 10, 2016
What better celebration could there be of French culture than David Guetta playing a load of dance tunes in English #Euro2016
— Chris Slater (@chrisslaterMEN) June 10, 2016
This hero perfectly sums it up
Opening ceremony beautifully summed up by one guys reaction #EURO2016 pic.twitter.com/gExgHBDMSJ
— Scott Westwood (@uncleodders) June 10, 2016
