Times journalist Andrew Pierce makes no secret of his hatred of football, so he decided to go on holiday during the World Cup to get away from it. So where did he book his holiday? Wait for it... Brazil! He would have done better to have visited his old mucker from the late lamented 5 Live Sunday Service Charlie Whelan in Inverness. For some odd reason there isn't much mention of football in bonnie Scotland at the moment, I hear. Can't think why. There I go upsetting my kinsmen again...
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for one moment I thought you were going to say he went to Germany.
Reminder, never have a hot beverage in your mouth when you are reading a line that says "wait for it..."
As Ronald Reagan would have said, there you go again, another cheap jibe....what a pity the large BBC screens were not sent to Edinburgh or Glasgow we could have shown the thugs at Canary Wharf and Liverpool how to sit nicely and behave. A friend of mine had children at Canary Wharf and a bottle missed his daughter by inches, all English, what is wrong with your kinsmen Iain?
As someone who's watched every match so far, I can only say those who didn't watch the France-Switzerland game haven't missed anything. Les Bleus were merde. As an Ireland fan who has as much time for Switzerland as England fans have for Argentina (particularly given the way the Swiss needle us as gracelessly as the Argentines often do to England), I find myself wanting (against all history and instinct) them to win - the French were that bad.
At least England were good in their first half against Paraguay. France were awful in both halves.
Truly a puzzle - Henry is one of the best players in the world (if only Man Utd had signed him from Monaco when he was offered), as is Makelele (and Vieria used to be one of the best, before he came to look so painfully out of sorts at Juventus).
But, as Alf Ramsey once said, sometimes the best players don't amount to the best team.
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