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Or is he just another joker?
Thank you to Scott who posted a link to this article from "The Daily Mash". It was so good I've cut and pasted it!
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TRIBUTES are being paid to Scotland this morning after the entire country laughed itself to death.
Most would have been dead within minutes Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north just after midnight only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets. By dawn, as RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture. Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of 70 shilling. They seemed to be at peace." He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a man face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees."It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over." Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 9.50pm. "He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, everything suddenly went very quiet." Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers. |
As I have stated elsewhere on this blog, I love England and the English. However this does not prevent me from taking childish, nay puerile delight in our large neighbour's sporting misfortune. It's the media you see. Now I know that the Scottish media got their collective knickers in a twist over our game with Italy. However I would contend that they were simply capturing the mood of the nation i.e. renewed optimism in our football team and a growing confidence in our small country. With one exception (Berti Vogts) I cannot remember one Scotland manager getting a particularly hard time from the media.
Then there's England. It really is time for the English media and the English football fans in general to grow up. Last night's defeat by Croatia was predictable and really only saved them from further humiliation in Euro 2008. It is fair to say that Steve McClaren has not been a resounding success in the job but really he was on to a loser from day one. His appointment was greeted with a combination of underwhelment and hostility but things have deteriorated since then. Every England manager since Sir Alf Ramsay has suffered the same treatment at some stage. The FA usually go for a top club manager with a record of success. In recent times they tried hiring a man who was regarded as one of the finest coaches in the world, Sven Goran Eriksson. Sven's reputation and managerial record was no protection for what awaited him, he didn't stand a chance with the Saxon press reptiles and the growing collection of ex England inernationalists who seem eager to queue up to put the boot in to the England boss whoever he may be. England only have one more crack at a major trophy before it'll be "Fifty years of hurt". Good luck to the new boss whoever he may be. I hope you enjoy your two year (maximum) tenure and are able to endure the criticism, nastiness and downright venom of the fourth estate. Good luck too to Steve McClaren he seems a decent man and I'm sure he'll do a good job for someone back in club management.
