ENGLISH HAVE WON CUP ALREADY.There's no Argy bargy about it, folks, Gabriel Batistuta Gabriel Omar Batistuta (born 1 February, 1969), nicknamed Batigol, is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at ACF Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the eighth top scorer of all time in the Italian Serie A league, and Co might as well not turn up at St Etienne on Tuesday. You can write off the Brazilians, Germans and Italians and the best of the rest of the world, too. Because if you believe our big-headed friends in the South, the Hand of Hod is already holding football's glittering prize. Friday night's 2-0 win over Colombia Under-41s has sent the English World Cup POTTY. It started before a ball was kicked against the South Americans as a record 24.2 million TV audience tuned in to the Biased Broadcasting Company Noun 1. broadcasting company - a company that manages tv or radio stations company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" . Wasn't it a coincidence, we were told by commentator John Grotson, that England were wearing the same red shirts they won the World Cup in back in 66. Put your shirt on Glenn's lads doing it again, eh? Mibbes not. Bob Wilson (Remember him? Used to play in goals for Scotland) caught the bug too. According to Bob, the entire British nation is buzzing about England. Yeh, right, us Scots are buzzing TV stations to complain about English arrogance. Their skipper Alan Shearer warmed to the theme as he described Tuesday's showdown with Argentina as The World Cup Final. Soccer's Royal Shyness slevered: "I genuinely believe whoever wins Tuesday's game can lift the World Cup." Here were we mortals thinking the final takes place on July 12 in Paris. Even young Michael Owen was at it as he bragged: "We can win this." Hod's disciple John Gormless gorm·less adj. Chiefly British Lacking intelligence and vitality; dull. [From dialectal gawm, sense, from Middle English gome, notice, from Old Norse gaumr. fell victim to the fever, too, with a sermon calling on his fellow Scots to back England. Yet their fans sang from a different hymn book a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal. See also: Hymn while they slaughtered us non-stop in Lens. At least they're developing a sense of humour Noun 1. sense of humour - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humor, humor, humour . And the fawning fawn 1 intr.v. fawned, fawn·ing, fawns 1. To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing. 2. English media are good for a laugh too as they run out of superlatives for their supermen. Funny how one result can transform Hod the plod into a God. Then there's Jimmy Greaves who described us yesterday as a bunch of haggis- munching diddies with a second-rate team and a second-rate league. Turnip up, Jimmy. It's happening again - the English nation's superiority complex su·pe·ri·or·i·ty complex n. 1. An exaggerated feeling of being superior to others. 2. A psychological defense mechanism in which a person's feelings of superiority counter or conceal his or her feelings of inferiority. is out of control. Everyone except Hod, if you believe the Roger Ram Jet look-alike. "We're not going to go overboard to go to an extreme; to overdo; as, he went overboard at the buffet and got an upset stomach s>. See also: Overboard ," he insists. If you believe that, you'll swear blind that Maradona didn't lift a finger against the English in 86. He didn't, did he? |
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