Butterflies in your
stomach, can’t concentrate? Jittery? Off to the toilet every five minutes?
Yes, England are playing again.
The pressure is off England because we have no expectations about
their chances and so we all expect England to do well because we don’t expect
them to do well. So the pressure is
actually double the normal pot boiling, heart attack inducing stress. The
papers even have a supplement just for this game with all manner of trivial
statistics: number of time England and France have met in Euros...how many French
players speak English...how many times England has invaded France.
For a brief moment Roy Higson, on his annual holidays from
his Cheam dry cleaning business, had thought, hopefully, that everyone had forgotten we were in the Euros having
been distracted by the Jubilee and the daft torch but, no, we are all back,
ready and waiting, for the same old same old. Game on.
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