Sunday, July 02, 2006

The wisdom of football

Talking about a Portugese player, John Motson said, 'We're not mispronouncing his name when we call him Va-len-te, it's just that, in Portugal they call him Va-lent.'
So, the Portugese are wrong then John?

After Rooney was sent off everyone said the best thing now would be to just hold on and play for penalties. So the best thing wouldn't have been to score a goal before the end of full/extra time and win the game outright?

The first English player to take a penalty was Lampard. As the commentators kept telling us, he had had more shots at goal than anyone in the tournament; and how many of those resulted in a goal?

It's all very well playing with grit and determination when you're down to 10 men but it's not much use if you've been playing like nincompoops throughout the rest of the tournament.

But I could have hugged Beckham or Ferdinand, bless 'em.

Hey ho, rugby world cup next year. Come on, Wales!

1 comment:

Liz Hinds said...

That's (ex)footballers for you!