I was reading Soccernomics last night (Thanks for the recommendation guys) and I just loved the part about England's pattern of World Cups! Hilarious stuff.
Forgive me for listing this but it's just too uncanny not to. The authors must have loved seeing this:
Phase 1: Pretournament: England will win the World Cup (Check)
England were one of the pre-tourny favourites.
Phase 2: England meets a former wartime enemy (Check)
The Germans!
Phase 3: The English conclude that the game turned on one freakish piece of bad luck that could only happen to them (Check)
I think that we can all safely say that the Frank Lampard goal was that freakish thing!
Phase 4: Everyone else cheated (Check)
They always do.
Phase 5: England is knocked out without getting anywhere near the cup (Check)
Phase 6: The day after, normal life resumes (Check kinda)
The English press slated the team and rightly so but the missed call was brought up a lot.
Phase 7: A scapegoat is found (Check)
The entire team, mainly Rooney, and one South American ref linesman are in focus here!
Phase 8: England enters the next World Cup thinking they will win it. (Almost certainly check!)
That was just too funny. The authors certainly nailed this one and then some.
I'm really enjoying the book so far and would certainly recommend it to anyone.
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