The proper football season did indeed begin last night, and it was quite good, as indeed expected. Today, a stuttering first half was improved by the second and victory won, also as expected. So the season is under way, football shorts are being bought, beer-belly or not, and money spent on PPV live coverage of the game, £10 today for Peterhead.
However, the media ignored this for the most part and concentrated on the nonsense game at Wembley tomorrow night. Twitter 'Trending' reflects the English nations desires well, they list 'Wimbledon,' 'Nazi Germany,' and 'Bobby Charlton,' as the top three! A genuine, honest insight into the English mentality! "We are superior, we won the war, we beat the Nazi's!"
All this of course from people born after 1945. Still, their History was taught to them by the 'Daily Mail,' 'Sun,' and 'Daily Express,' so you cannot expect them to understand what actually happened.
It is to be hoped, according to the Twitter discussions I have had in the last 24 hours, that Italia win by a vastly superior margin than usual. Only that way will common decency return to the media, Twitter, and English life, once they have been released from prison that is.
2 comments:
That's the unfortunate outcome of England winning is that we wont hear the end of it. The number of pages about it in the i yesterday was crazy.
Dave, Papers already proclaiming them victors and Southgate a Knight!
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