Tagged: England

Don’t panic. You’ve not woken up in some kind of socialist hell, with Ed Miliband in charge of the country and all rational intelligent types such as myself fleeing to Zimbabwe. It’s just a post about football. I shall get stuck in like some Uruguayan teeth (that was bitingly obvious wasn’t it?). 1 GK Joe Hart – The best we have but he isn’t Peter Shilton.13 GK Ben Foster – Not much to do against Costa Rica but did it well.  Maybe worth a start in the next friendly?22 GK Fraser Forster – Who?2 DF Glen Johnson – Not an …

My Dad once told me during my early teenage years that the two most fascinating things in the world were politics and cricket. I didn’t believe it at the time.  How could anyone enjoy a game that went on for 5 days? But during my early 20’s I used to have a lot of time to kill – these were the days before broadband, when I only had 4 television channels (albeit 4 more than I have now) and I had monstrous hangovers every weekend from drinking large bottles of vodka. Laying in my rickety single bed, nursing pounding hangovers, …

I didn’t expect much this World Cup. OK that’s a slight bending of the truth as I expected us to beat Italy and Uruguay – and lose to Costa Rica.  100% wrong so far.  And then lose in the 2nd round. I don’t want to spend long criticising England, because I stink and really need a shower, I thought Rooney was very good and deserved his place, Baines was good, Henderson good and I could compliment various others.  And I am satisfied with Hodgson. What I cannot defend is the…defence.  And the central defence in particular. Perhaps we were just …

Wow. Up yours Scotland. We are going to win the Euro’s. We have your oil and you just have haggis, we were once Champions of the World and now we are going to be Champions of Europe and all you have apart from the Loch Ness Monster is something almost equally as mythical in a victory over Holland many decades ago – and exactly how good are Holland? Nil poit, that is how good. Though at least they made it there. Again, we are proving that we are world-beaters, and this time luck is not going against us. Of course, …

I did say that we didn’t deserve to win the World Cup, given that the Premiership has ruined football. But it isn’t exactly as if I chose to be English. I am. And I still like football. And I still wanted England to win. Maybe I got it completely wrong on Friday, and that it was the English who were always going to capitulate to Germany so as to build the German’s confidence to ensure they can knock the smile off the face of Diego Maradona. Clearly though, picking Scousers was always going to be a downfall, and I don’t …

Some things will be classed as fate, but other things will be classed as the collective will of the absolute total majority of the right-thinking population of the world. Now unless Mexico throw a spanner in the works, whoever wins out of England and Germany on Sunday, will play Argentina in the next round. It is in every Englishman’s blood to beat any Argentinian, far more than it is a German – after all the Germans are good people (I’m sure the Argentinians are too but I just get a tiny bit irked by their Falklands demands, and one or …