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With the World Cup coming along, it reminds me of the old "big nation-small nation" rivalry!
To the Germans, the big game is beating the Dutch and vice versa. To the Scots, the big game is beating England (at almost anything!) To the Irish, it's north and south and beating England! To the French, it's beating England and Germany. To the Danes, it's beating Tyskland (Germany).
Everybody seems to want to beat England, perhaps because of the English press?
I'm reminded of a letter from "Disgusted of Ayrshire" or something, in the Scotsman newspaper in 1996 after Germany beat England. Now I'm paraphrasing here, but it went soemthing like,
Sir,
I was in Gretna on the evening that England were beaten by Germany and I was disgusted to see four Scottish men coming out of a pub and singing "Deutscland ?ber Alles!" Do we not teach history in school any more?
Well, yes we do and that is probably why they had the shirts on!
The arrogance of the Englsih media is only superceded by the crassness of the red tops. I, personally, will be cheering for USA when they play England and I'll be doing it to shut up the likes of "the Sun" and John Motson.
Unfortunately for England, I have a distinct feeling that without the likes of Beckham, they'll be home before their postcards....
To the Germans, the big game is beating the Dutch and vice versa. To the Scots, the big game is beating England (at almost anything!) To the Irish, it's north and south and beating England! To the French, it's beating England and Germany. To the Danes, it's beating Tyskland (Germany).
Everybody seems to want to beat England, perhaps because of the English press?
I'm reminded of a letter from "Disgusted of Ayrshire" or something, in the Scotsman newspaper in 1996 after Germany beat England. Now I'm paraphrasing here, but it went soemthing like,
Sir,
I was in Gretna on the evening that England were beaten by Germany and I was disgusted to see four Scottish men coming out of a pub and singing "Deutscland ?ber Alles!" Do we not teach history in school any more?
Well, yes we do and that is probably why they had the shirts on!
The arrogance of the Englsih media is only superceded by the crassness of the red tops. I, personally, will be cheering for USA when they play England and I'll be doing it to shut up the likes of "the Sun" and John Motson.
Unfortunately for England, I have a distinct feeling that without the likes of Beckham, they'll be home before their postcards....
Well, maybe, my limey amigos....but I'd stay away from the
don TJ and the 
Coros
Okay, so aside from the fact that the Yankee-doodle-dandees are reigning Olympic rugby champions... (okay, I suspect about two other people knew that)... Tonight (as it is now in England), you will observe England's 2nd XV pasting the USA test side across the pitch at Glendale... A suburb of Denver (and stadium) which, I have to add, I have visited whilst on a rugby referees' tour to Colorado... 
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