haha not seen that
but it represents the first world cup i remember watching. It did not make me feel sad, despite my love for Gazza.
I hope this england team are good enough to achieve such a glorious failure this year :)
Edit: oh, I understand completely, just don't share that particular viewpoint. I'm a bit bicurious regarding england... I enjoy watching them play well and win, but the possibility of a more relevant trophy win than the completely irrelevant 1966 terrifies me, so I tend to be relieved when they get beaten.
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:21,
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I hope this england team are good enough to achieve such a glorious failure this year :)
Edit: oh, I understand completely, just don't share that particular viewpoint. I'm a bit bicurious regarding england... I enjoy watching them play well and win, but the possibility of a more relevant trophy win than the completely irrelevant 1966 terrifies me, so I tend to be relieved when they get beaten.
and the flip side of that Scottish coin, I fucking hate the England team and I hope they get pumped out
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:26,
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see, I don't mind your lot
and always want them to do well.
As I do with all the home nations.
And Ireland
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:31,
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As I do with all the home nations.
And Ireland
haha I don't mind your lot either, till they walk onto a pitch ;)
to be honest it's not really the team I hate..it's the hype around them.
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:33,
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I thought you'd approve of that...
given the inevitability of the associated comedown.
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:35,
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see this is how I feel
football's absolutely brilliant as long as I'm in a park and kicking the ball around with my mates, but as soon as there's any kind of professional element involved it just seems to turn people into arseholes
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:41,
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exactly, that's what i was trying to explain above
i like most of the players, I just don't like anything else about the england national team.
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:44,
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The parallels were quite striking between then and now
A press who claim to want us to do well, yet scupper us at every opportunity;
An obscenely talented youngster with a temperament problem;
Several players at the last chance saloon;
Formation uncertanties;
And heavy handed local police spoiling for a fight.
It's well worth a watch, and the book is better.
Cracking soundtrack too, and Gary Oldman narrates it, which makes the hooligan scenes a little difficult to watch, as he will alwys be Bex to me
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Fri 11 Jun 2010, 9:29,
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An obscenely talented youngster with a temperament problem;
Several players at the last chance saloon;
Formation uncertanties;
And heavy handed local police spoiling for a fight.
It's well worth a watch, and the book is better.
Cracking soundtrack too, and Gary Oldman narrates it, which makes the hooligan scenes a little difficult to watch, as he will alwys be Bex to me