England Again

OK I know, we beat Ecuador 1-0, we're through to the quarter finals, and we ungrateful England supporters should be deliriously happy. But it was another deeply depressing, frustrating, boring, uninspired, untalented, unskilled and just plain lousy performance by Sven's boys. Sven himself appears to be utterly clueless, playing a barely-fit Rooney as the sole striker in a bizarre 1-4-1-4-1 configuration.

How tedious was it? Well for much of the time the commentator was talking about anything but the game in hand: the presence of strange-looking insects in the commentary box, the excellence of the German railway system, the weather. Yawn.

I still have this fantasy that England will play Germany in the final. The score will be 2-2 after 90 minutes. And somebody will win 4-2 after extra time.