OK, so a guy who doesn't really give a dam about football and cares even less about the England team bet me that England do not reach the quarterfinal stage. Easy money (or so I thought) even if we didn't progress past that stage I thought we'd get there!!! I mean this would mean us losing out in the KO game after the group stage, surely we are better than that - NO.
So as payment I had to purchase the office krispy kreme doughnuts :-( I don't even eat bloody doughnuts. We have all sorts in the office, even supposed 'football fans' who hate the England team and think they are a bunch of useless w*****s. Well the team did themselves no favours did they. I have to listen to all the 'I told you so' now.
Well of all the emailed responses I got to alerting everyone of the bet I lost and the resulting treat for everyone else, this had to be the best "I wish we'd had those doughnuts in defence on Sunday! They would have done a better job!" this run a close second "all I can say is that if we defended like that in 1939-45 the whole country would be speaking German now!"
...a few of my friends are out in SA, it made me so angry when I see Rooney ranting down the TV at the booers after the Algeria game! How dare he. He's been the biggest let down all tournament. The most passion & performance shown from an Englishman on tour was our Mr Pavlos Joseph!
Anyway, until Germany all the defence looked solid, but the fact is we just hadn't been tested by a decent team!
I went bananas when Lampards 'goal' went in against the Germans :-( who knows, that was our best spell in the match and at 2-2 maybe things would of been different - I just hate it that the players have always got some excuse and we're left with the what ifs.
Boring rigid old school 442 tactics :-( Although Germany were amazing.
I mean they made us look like amateurs the way they attacked us then the clinical finishing when they got there!! My god, we couldn't compete. I heard the German coach say he did his homework, hit England on the break cause Lampard and Gerrard are always supporting the attack...the fullbacks are wide, Klose to pull Terry out of position and through they go. AND boy were they true to their word and it worked a treat...oh well only another boring qualification to look forward to now and then get our hopes up again in 2yrs time for the euros.
