Today's World Cup Menu
Costa Rican coffee, Gruyere and Bacon flan, Pizza, French Corbieres
England sent packing
You know I even thought it wasn't all over last night. I thought Costa Rica's win over Uruguay was a fluke; that Italy would win their two matches and it would come down to if England could beat the South Americans and Uruguay could get something off of Italy... but this World Cup isn't like that. Either Italy or Uruguay will now go out and who could have seen that?
There's nothing of any surprise here, I never saw a single blog nor spoke to anyone who thought England were going to progress in this tournament. Where I'm currently working, I've barely heard anyone talking about the football or if they watched the matches or not. The fact is most people have fallen out of love with English football and it would take an awful lot for that to change.
Nevertheless, the manner in which England have been sent home is desperately disappointing. I've been doing a World Cup diary blog for the last five World Cups but really my heart isn't in this any more. As I write this, Daniel Sturridge is on TV advertising Subway sandwiches while David Beckham is surely only five minutes away advertising Sky or something. Nothing changes. It's profoundly depressing.
I had plenty of World Cup heroes to do - many of them not English - and I've still got some food and drink to finish but really, like the English players, I may need to go away and hide for a few weeks.
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