Derland beating Watford winning 2018 World Cup
disgraceful.
If you think the previous paragraph was not entirely serious: you’re wrong.
But it’s in games against Germany that the England fans reach their zenith of cringiness. To compensate for perpetual footballing inferiority, it is deemed necessary to refer to the Second World War.
This is because it is 72 years since this country was truly important.
During Germany’s stroll past England in the 2010 World Cup, television cameras occasionally panned away from the humiliation on the pitch to give the world another opportunity to snigger at miserable half-wits in Spitfire pilot costumes.
It may have been for the wrong reasons, but at least they got a laugh by doing something that in itself was about as funny as Ant and Dec.
And so to last Wednesday in Dortmund. As every country has a better national anthem than England, it has become a matter of course to make idiotic chants while the opposition’s tune is played.
So this was duly done prior to the latest defeat to a country that can’t even be bothered to reciprocate the hatred.
We can be grateful that there was no repeat performance when Lithuania came to Wembley on Sunday.
However, this is probably attributable to the Spitfire brigade not knowing the first thing about Lithuania.
It should be stressed that, as always, cretinous behaviour is confined to a minority. Yet it still adds to the increasing ambivalence towards the national team. In fact it is only ambivalence at best.
Put it another way. I have already said I prefer the national side to do well; but presented with the hypothetical choice of either England winning the 2018 World Cup, or Sunderland beating Watford on Saturday; then what?
It’s three points at Vicarage Road every time for me.