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England out of the World Cup.

  
  

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Sax
07:28 / 21.06.02
Bollocks.
 
 
Knight's Move
07:30 / 21.06.02
Just ahead of me there...shit.
 
 
Grey Area
07:33 / 21.06.02
What...Brazil won?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
07:34 / 21.06.02
2-1. Am still only person in my department...
 
 
Bear
07:36 / 21.06.02
Everyones back from the pub now..

It's a damn shame









HAHAHA (just kidding)
 
 
Sax
07:43 / 21.06.02
They played like fucking donkeys in the second half. Did no-one tell them that Brazil were down to 10 men and it would have been quite acceptable to go and fucking attack once in a while?

And Paul Scholes deserves a long, drawn-out death.
 
 
captain piss
07:46 / 21.06.02
Aaaaaagh-rse!
 
 
sleazenation
08:02 / 21.06.02
so where are the brazillian contingent? to busy laughing i expect.
 
 
Ganesh
08:22 / 21.06.02
I can barely contain my misery. They should all be put to death.
 
 
Sax
08:23 / 21.06.02
Har-de-fucking-har
 
 
Fist Fun
08:23 / 21.06.02
Woo hoo! Allez le Senegal!
 
 
Grey Area
08:46 / 21.06.02
Vamos Brazil! E agora, eles vao ganar todos os otros jogos tambem! Yay! Huzzah! Err...*cough*

(sneaks to dark corner and hopes no-one noticed)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:26 / 21.06.02
Tindersticks,
Tindersticks,
And we all like Tindersticks.
(We're on the bus)
You're gonna score....one...more...than....us....
ENGLAND!

I'm choosing to accentuate the positive, which basically means writing off the entire second half as a grotesque aberration> I'm seeing a young squad get a vital experience boost (see how Ashley Cole and Rio Ferdinand have improved as players over the course of five games). I've seen England do better in a World Cup than they have for a decade. I've seen performances that justify the continued employment of a coach whose encyclopaedic knowledge of European football gives England a better chance of qualification for the European Championships.

Still fucking gutted, though.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
09:32 / 21.06.02
It's all my fault. Briefly woken by cheering for Michael Owen's goal, I switched on the television, only to fall asleep with it still on and half believing, dreaming, commentary seeping in to my consciousness - whatever - that "wow, we've won the world cup" ... only to wake up a little when Brazil scored and subsequently hide under my duvet.
 
 
Sax
09:33 / 21.06.02
It's a pity that Heskey seemed to wake up for the first time this tournament and have the game of his International career in the first half, and then went to shit in the second half, along with the rest of the squad.

And why oh why don't they bring Sheringham on sooner?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:41 / 21.06.02
I just got dragged down the pub to watch this (well, i say dragged... they promised beer and beer there was). And I hate football. And within an hour, they'd (my workmates) all actually convinced me to give a shit. And now I'm pissed off.
Bah.
 
 
Margin Walker
10:05 / 21.06.02
Well, if it'll make you feel any better, the US might be in the same boat as England after the game with Germany. Which should be starting in about 1/2 hr. Besides, you seem to be taking a loss a lot better than the Italians are.
 
 
Sax
10:12 / 21.06.02
"We're not in the same boat! Stop saying that! The only thing you're in that we've been in is this fucking bath!"
 
 
w1rebaby
10:34 / 21.06.02
I knew it was a bad idea to invest in twenty thousand eight-foot England flags.
 
 
rizla mission
10:40 / 21.06.02
I'm in the middle of the countryside now, so I can say:

"Ha Ha! Suckers! You can get on with your lives now!"

without being attacked.
 
 
Bear
11:00 / 21.06.02
Looks like the USA are playing pretty well -

USA USA USA
 
 
The Natural Way
11:02 / 21.06.02
It's been a weird world cup up here, above Leicester Sq; the end of every game met by the bellows and cheers of the winning team as they swarm into the Sq., bekitted and, pissed and bearing flags, to celebrate their apparent mastery of the beautiful game...., S'a mixed blessing, really: on the one hand it was great to see the Koreans come roaring outta the woodwork, bringing with them - like the Brazillians - a wicked carnival-style atmosphere. Dancing in the streets. But, on the other hand, there's the raging, baldbellied, beflagged British fan - face all puffed and sore with victory or disappointment....the flying beer bottles.... Right now all I can here is a nasty, pregnant traffic hum, interspersed with unsettling stabs of Brazil-baiting and the eternal chant "ENGERLAAAND! engerlaaand!"

I've seen a few Brazillians stupid/naive/brave(?) enough to be wandering the streets in their football shirts.

I'm glad I won't be here tonight.
 
 
deja_vroom
11:10 / 21.06.02
So what's this "world cup" thing everybody's talking about?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:47 / 21.06.02
At least when I go to bed now, Hackney won't be full of people honking their horns. (Oooo-eeeRRR!)
 
 
Grey Area
11:57 / 21.06.02
My question: As a foreigner in this lovely country, I'm curious as to how the pronounciation "eng-er-land" evolved. As far as I am aware, the official pronounciation is "eng-land".

"Enger" means "narrower" in German...I'm sure there's no links.
 
 
deja_vroom
12:02 / 21.06.02
You tell me... Over here the matches are being broadcasted at wee hours in the morning, the Cup taking place in the other side of the wrold and all that. People who couldn't care less about it still suffer the effects of football dementia with all the drunkards honking and yelling, shooting fireworks and all that. Couldn't get a decent sleep last night. Fuckers.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:03 / 21.06.02
Because 'Engerland' fits better when you sing it to the tune of 'Here We Go'.
 
 
Sax
12:10 / 21.06.02
And portly gentlemen with shaved heads and tattoos of bulldogs can pronounce it "En-GRRR-land" to scare Johnny Foreigner.
 
 
gridley
12:42 / 21.06.02
And the U.S. just got knocked out by Germany....
 
 
suds
13:08 / 21.06.02
i feel GUILTY for not caring about the game because i live with a fucking manic football fan. ugggghhh.
 
 
Logos
13:35 / 21.06.02
fridge--don't worry about those flags; I hear the Who are on tour this summer.

For some reason, everyone in my house woke up independantly to watch the England/Brazil match at 2:30 in the morning. By the time the US/Germany match was on, I was so tired that I wasn't sure which parts of the match were real, and which only imagined. (The flying elephant was probably the latter, right?)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:03 / 21.06.02
No, that was Bierhof.
 
 
w1rebaby
14:33 / 21.06.02
at least my flatmate will not now return home, drunkenly "singing" ENG-ER-LAND etc etc and effectively expel everyone from the front room with blokey goodness
 
 
Cherry Bomb
14:45 / 21.06.02
Of course, I've been watching this whole thing with an air of detached-ness, but I feel bad for ya guys.

At least they got this far...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:43 / 21.06.02
God was just compensating the Brazilians for the general ugliness (and shocking teeth) of the national side. I was a lonely lonely creature at work this morning, forlornly willing the Sven's boys on, whilst about fifteen colleagues screamed their encouragement at the boys from Brazil.
 
  

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