BUTTER-FINGERS!!!!Everywhere i look ,there's England flags flappin n' fluttering, health and safety regulations allowing, of course. This is a wonderful show of pride and patriotism by the people of our great proud country. I have a lot of faith in the pride and belief of 'everybody' back here at home. The problem ,for me lies with the fact i've absolutly no faith in 'our boys' in the England squad. "C'mon ,Tim, give 'em a chance"thought i to myself and sat down to watch the travesty of a game against the USA, for christs sake. Then afterwards, looked out at the flags fluttering from houses and cars in our close and thought "Ah well, they'll be coming down by the end of next week."
But even after one of the all time goal-keeping 'cock-ups'; And half the squad of deadbeats chosen by our Italian 'gaffer' dead n' beaten by injury, its not all bad. Every cloud has a silver lining, they do say. And even at this time of National disharmony, pain and fear for the next few games and our increasingly slim chances in the tournament, this old saying is true. I was asked a few years ago to illustrate a book in Hong Kong, for the chinese, written by a Geordie lad, explaining various football sayings and expressions. As ever my moment of fame never came to pass and the artwork wasn't used. But after the England game ,this particular one , i think is particually apt.
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what more do you expect? thud and i both watched the game with the family and after starting with such excitment left us wondering why bother. i mean rooney didnt seem to so why should we?
Aye,'tis true ,'tis true. And not only do we think so ,but 'Der Kaiser' himself, Franz Beckenbaur thinks similar thinks too. Also that England stinks as it has been flooded with too many foreign players. But as fair minded Englishmen we'd never think that ,leave it to the Germans.
The influx of foreign strikers does leave us fishing ina small pond but even so I'll be all set on Friday for another sterling performance and equally ready to come crashing down to earth agian...bloody masochists, all of us.
Clint Eastwood in 'Any which way but loose ,or the sequal said he was going to give up bare knuckle fighting ,as he was 'beginning to like the pain'. A bit like us with the football.
Tim...we just got all the pain we need...and I don't like it one bit, but I'll still be cheering the lads on next weds (or booing)
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