The World Cup is in full motion and I'm euphoric with football fever. I haven't missed a game so far regardless of the fact that besides Germany's performance yesterday the play has been very VERY boring. I find it funny that the media have spurned a football pundit in absolutely everybody, even the saps who have never been into football before talk pitch technique... badly I might add. The swarms of girls/women coming into work with tight-fitting England slogan shirts (not actually England strips) is comical, a few slogans to take note of being 'want to score with me?', 'I'm a team player' and 'I'm a top shot'.... there aren't enough emot-icon winks in the World to satisfy those.
I feel so unpatriotic to say however that I don't have much faith in our team. It just isn't the sum of its parts. Individually the players fit in their premiership teams, but there is no cohesion as a national unit, too many big egos in my opinion. Prominent players of the past 15 years have been those that stay away from the media and paparazzi, who don't dwell in fast cars and promiscuity. Take Owen, Shearer, Gerrard and Sheringham (who bizarrely only became a media rat post retirement). I just think as the England squad they forget what playing the beautiful game is all about, the glory and hype of the keen English fans has completely gone to their heads. Rooney went on that pitch knowing the entire country thought he was the big daddy, I forgot he was even there on Saturday....
Football jargon aside, I wish more people would have a lion's confidence to be themselves, instead of succumbing to the headlights that are peer-pressure and trend, and becoming a fake entity that is not only completely obvious but dangerously vulnerable.
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