The World Cup is finally here!
Posted on June 11th, 2010 | 83 Comments |
This is great news as the world’s premier football competition becomes the focus of football fans across the country, and indeed the world.
As revealed yesterday, and perhaps in hindsight it was the worst kept secret ever, but I am backing England for the tournament for as long as we are in it. It also offers us Newcastle fans a welcome distraction from the apparent media blackout surrounding our club and gives them the opportunity to get along with things quietly. No change there then.
I can exclusively reveal that even before the first game has finished, them Vuvuzela horns are a massive irritation and should be forcibly removed from any fans who have one inside the ground. Culture schmulture, any thing that sounds like a fly stuck in your ear will eventually become annoying after a while, or in my case, a very short while.
These tournaments only come around once every four years, and as an England fan I have been somewhat starved from major international tournament action, mostly thanks to that wally with the brolly, Shteve McClaren. Yes that was a deliberate typing error, and it was aimed at poking fun at McClaren’s comedy use of a Dutch accent.
I wont be the only one sitting here with a theoretical sheepskin jacket on and a notepad in hand looking for the next big star, or for a player that Newcastle should go after. In fact I reckon I already have a headstart on most – we should try to sign the Spanish team. There you go, get to it Ashley!
Who will be the first top team to falter? Which team will be the surprise package? Those are just two among many questions that will be answered over the coming month. The most important thing from my perspective is to see some good football, any football in fact. Thank god there is a World Cup!
Right now I can sit back and watch the worlds top players battle it out against each other as a neutral. However, my competetive nature will come into the frame on Saturday evening as I switch roles from being a neutral to becoming an England fan as we, hopefully, go about the business of dismantling those dooleys from the US of A.
Referring back to my scouting mission, how about Giovani dos Santos of Mexico? Surely we could tempt sackface Harry Redknapp into letting us have him on loan? Ah well, we can hope eh?
I can only imagine what it would have been like without a World Cup as I was starting to get bored already. The good new is that Newcastle will know what fixtures they have in less than a weeks time, but unfortunately that is about all we know in advance, which isn’t great to ‘blog about.
Thank god for the World Cup, and come on England!
South African President looked like Morpheus.