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There ends the dream…

1st July 2006

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Several pints of lager, immeasurable stress, and 2 geeks biting their nails in Brown’s in Hockley, Nottingham.
Malarkey and Colly. 

Simon Collison published this on 01/07/06, at 6:43 PM

Comments

We woz robbed guvnor!  I hope, like me you drowned your sorrows to some tune!  Hic!

01/07 at 21:02 from Martin Smith

What’s the feeling in England right now regarding Rooney’s red card? Til being sent off he was looking formidable against the Portuguese defense. Had he stayed in he might’ve made some difference.

01/07 at 23:32 from Darren Hoyt

Darren: Erm, everyone too numb to start blaming anyone yet. Sven is getting some stick though, but that is a national pastime.

Time (and today’s newspapers) will tell…

02/07 at 00:51 from Simon Collison

Personally, I think getting kicked out of the World Cup is just rewards for Wayne Rooney stamping on somebody’s balls, no?

“You’re going home, you’re going home, you’re going… England’s going home.”

Sorry… but there’s always some sweet schadenfreude for an Irishman when England loses. ;-)

02/07 at 10:01 from Jeremy Keith

That’s it, Keith - you’re gonna get a good nad-stamping for that comment! :-D

What a weekend, eh? Beeeeyyyooootiful weather but oh so difficult to get in the mood to enjoy it. Harrumph!

03/07 at 08:01 from Ian Lloyd

Eh up, where’s be union flag then? I’m just European, am I?  In that case,do I have to like Portugal, France et al now? Ye gads.

03/07 at 08:11 from Ian Lloyd

Jeremy: Tut-tut. I despair at your lack of sympathy for the English at this difficult time. The use of the word “schadenfreude” doesn’t help either. Naughty man.

Ian: Oh, have you been trading IPs on the black market again? Got yourself one of those sportier European models with go-faster stars…

03/07 at 09:22 from Simon Collison

It was all bound to end in tears, there’s only so much luck you can buy. England deserved to be beaten, and this cycle will go on unless the next group of talented, over-paid, over-spoilt and over-confident players are moulded as a team, and earn their right to play at the top table of European football rather than thinking it’s their divine right. In addition, it’s time the flag-waving public and press stopped blaming refs/winking Ronaldo/stamping Rooney/Sven/Faria/Steve MacClarens notepad (What IS he writing down?) and faced up to some truths and demanded a more professional and balanced view of the national side. For starters - they were’nt good enough overall when they should have been.

Some interesting observations:
Jens Lehmann: His database of how all players usually take penalties over the years. The English over the years think that penalties are a ‘lottery’.

Owen Hargreaves: Nice one.

Martin O’Neill: The FA need dragging through the gutter on this. Are they really that scared of him? The echoes of Cloughie are deafening.

I’ll save this text and re-post it in two years time no doubt. Come on England! Come on you Irons!

03/07 at 16:42 from Simon Clayson

Simon: Funny you mention Martin O’Neill. I was listening to a post-game East Midlands radio phone-in the other night. On the panel were several thick ex-Forest players, including one Gary “Premadona” Birtles.

Joe Public of pointless local town rings in berating Sven, and Birtles quickly agrees. I quote:

What the FA need to do is get an English manager, and I think Martin O’Neill would be perfect.

It’s not so much the fact that O’Neill is of course Irish, it’s the fact that Birtles played with him for 10 years and didn’t even notice. Twat.

07/07 at 00:31 from Simon Collison

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