16 thoughts on “All over bar the pouting?”

  1. It was a disappointing outcome, Pseu, but such are the ways of the game. 😦

  2. They all seem a little disappointed.

    I’m sure that you can cheer them up here’s a few tips/pointers

    Appeal to their sense of sportsmanship and suggest that the best team won.

    Or

    I’m sure that they’ll do better next time

    Or

    Call that Uruguayan linesman an idiot.

    Then again perhaps not 😉

  6. Sod the football. England have just won the One Day Cricket International series against the Aussies

  8. Four-eyed – Yeah I know, they didn’t have a Uruguayan referee 😦

  9. FEEG, Araminta, absolutely, and it was, as the Duke of W once said, a damned close run thing. Now for the whitewash 🙂

  11. Fabio Capello blames referee and linesman for World Cup exit
    Fabio Capello refused to blame his players for England’s woeful exit from the World Cup at the hands of Germany, instead focusing on the decision to disallow Frank Lampard’s equalising goal.

    “I think he (Capello) will go,” said Allen Hansen. “I think because they were that bad, not just in this game but in the whole tournament.”

    Hansen was also scathing in his assessment of the performance from Capello’s side.

    Hansen said: “They were abysmal. If you look at the back four, the midfield, the attackers, the system and the manager. Every aspect was rock bottom. The basics, the fundamentals weren’t there.

  12. Do I take it England lost. been out cycling and working in the garden, so I am non the wiser.

    But then I think football is a bore, played by over paid morons.

    Perhaps now they will cut their salaries down to a normal wage.

  14. Aye weel. I think that that football is one of the truly great games and a total joy when played at the highest level. Preferred to play rugby but have always found that watching football played as it can and should be is the ne plus ultra.

    Poor game. Satisfying that the English are mumping about a goal that was quite clearly a goal but was not credited to their account. Almost makes up for those 44 years of them celebrating a goal that was quite clearly not a goal but was so credited.

    Make no mistake, I was supporting England today and wanted them to progress. The simple fact is that they were not good enough or hungry enough.

    I’ve spent years supporting a Scottish football team that has not been even close to being good enough. I have never minded that and never will. For me, the unforgivable thing is not to try. Most of the English players have been guilty of that in this World Cup, in my opinion.

  15. Ah well; all’s fair in love and war, as they say…
    I was in Aintree Hospital. I’m no great veteran of hospital wards, but it was endearing to see so many incapacitated and very elderly people become suddenly wide eyed and animated, asking ‘Wha? Wha? Disallowed…?’ And for the first time in my life, it occurred to me that there may actually be some sense in the term, ‘beautiful game’. But then I heard England had lost on the car radio, and seconds later, there were sirens striking up, and one fire engine, two ambulances and two police cars whizzed past in varying directions. And I thought, hmm, if all hell has now broken loose in various outposts of Liverpool, that’s not quite so beautiful…

  16. For me, the unforgivable thing is not to try. Most of the English players have been guilty of that in this World Cup, in my opinion.

    You got that right, JM.

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