England’s Euro 2008 failure

Posted on November 23, 2007
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After a long time, English soccer fans received their dose of disappointment well before a major tournament, be it the World Cup or Euro, took place. The English national soccer team failed to qualify for the Euro 2008 finals after losing to Croatia at home for the last game of the qualification round; interestingly, England only needed a tie to advance but they could not even manage that.

Considering the level of play exhibited by the English not only during this last game but all games played this past year, they did not deserve to go to the finals. But you would think that they would admit at least this much: Our failure to qualify is the result of our poor performance on the soccer pitch. It is really that simple. If you play like shit with no heart, you don’t go very far.

Instead, the English are coming up with some of the stupidest excuses for their failure. First, they place all the blame to the recently fired coach McClaren who admittedly made some bad choices during his 2 year stint as team manager but the English forget that when they were out looking for a new manager he was the best of the bunch available to them. Don’t blame someone who probably did the best he could considering his abilities were already limited.

The most ridiculous excuse, however, must be the one recently published in The Register in an article under the title, “England flops shafted by enormous todger.” Here is why England lost according to this journalist,

Opera singing Brit Tony Henry has become a Croatian hero for mispronouncing a line in the country’s national anthem before its team consigned a lamentable England to the dustbin of footballing history on Wednesday night.
The ditty is “written in the old Croat style”, the Telegraph explains, and instead of singing Mila kuda si planina - “You know my dear how we love your mountains” - Henry thundered Mila kura si planina, or “My dear, my penis is a mountain”.
This evidently delighted Croatian players Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric, who were seen “grinning at each other” at the gaffe, and fans claim the slip helped relax the team before its 3-2 drubbing of McClaren’s lacklustre side.

You have got to be kidding me! I think the 2008 Euro tournament is going to be much better off without the loud, drinking and very rude English soccer fans spoiling it for everybody else; they were not going to win it anyways so why bother going to the finals in the first place.

Bye, bye England!

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