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We're Going Down Down, In An Earlier Round - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 9:57 PM

Yes, it's official. England sucks.

All the talent available, and nothing to show for it. Same old, same old.

To think i stayed up all the way to 6 in the morning just to watch a comeback in the works from 2-0 down. It almost did happen, not that England deserved the short-lived comeback, but it seemed fairytale-like especially with the equaliser provided by Becks, who was incidentally the hero a couple of years back with that famous "save-England's-blushes" free-kick against Greece. But some things are never meant to be, innit? Aside from Scott Carson, Wayne Bridge's mistakes at left-back, Micah Richard's consistent fouling... basically, the entire back 4 and the keeper's incompetency, i thought everyone else did pretty well. It's just Steve Mclaren who did a rotten job at formulating the winning strategy. Ok, so he did in the past few games prior to the Russian crash-and-burn disaster a week ago, but that was really against lesser teams. The real test was against Russia and Croatia, who turned out to be top 2 of the group, and Mclaren failed TERRIBLY. The obviously glaring mistake was fielding Scott Carson. So maybe nobody would have thought he would have made his blunders, but unlucky for Mclaren, the blame has to rest on him for his high-profile replacement of Robinson. Lanlan. And after claiming to show no favouritism whatsoever, he reverted back to his old ways of trying to fit Lampard and Gerrard in central midfield. The second goal was exposed by this combination, if i didn't remember wrongly, the attack went past Barry with Lampard and Gerrard positioned further up the fail, leaving a foolish-looking Lescott and the blistering snail pace of Campbell to protect Carson's goal. Tactics? Rubbish i tell you. Croatia was away from home, had absolutely nothing to play for, other than the satisfaction of knocking out one of the world's "soccer greats" nation.

It's seriously a pain to be an England fan. Currently, the consolation i can think of is to see Mclaren's head roll (metophorically. i'm not psycho or sadistic) in a couple of hours' time. The bugger still can say "I should remain as Enlgand coach". What rubbish. Sack him and exile him from the football world i say. Or better yet, let him succeed Fergie's throne. After what he did to England and Middlesborough, i'm convinced he has the death touch, i.e. that goth-looking, decay-loving, vampire-like chick from Elektra.

On other news, the writers of america are still on strike, effectively cutting short the heroes and prison break season. Now, personally i don't really know how much these people are earning and want to earn, neither do i care. All i know is that the countdown to the next prison break episode stands at 53 days, and the last episode was a cliff-hanger too. That's an absolute kick in the nuts. The next thing you know, the lighting crew and the makeup artistes will follow suit, and we'll have to content with darker sets and ghastly-looking actors on tv.

Downloading re-runs looks to be the trend for the Christmas season. Ah.. the ironies of piracy.

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