By Steve Hynd
TV? $350 Beer? $7 Watching endless repeats of the English goalie making an Elementary School mistake in front of the whole world? Priceless!
It used to be said that God was an Englishman. On the evidence today, if He isn't American then He's Scottish.
John Cole suggested that Green should have started drinking immediately. At least it was the first game - perhaps most will forget by the time they go back to England.
ReplyDeleteWell, for fans who support one of the teams in a game the emotional investment always makes a difference. But for neutral observers the game was awful, France - Uruguay awful.
ReplyDeleteThis was only the first game for each team and no definitive damage has been done, but preliminary indications now are that even Fabio Capello may not be able to cure the English disease of bottling it up in big tournaments. And the risk Capello took with Ledley King seems to have bombed.
I watched the game on Finnish TV and the commenters there, who are usually pretty anglophile, were so disappointed, they ended the program with the joke that it is in the next game when the two better teams of the group, Algeria and Slovenia, are going to play.