England 1, France 2
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anotherusedpageWell, that was thoroughly sickening.
Fucking fantastic first half. I mean, not perfect, but... not the kind of scrappy shite we've occasionally seen from them either. And a decent goal - at first I thought it was Mikey on the end of David's cross, which made me squee, but Lampard'll do for scoring goals. And when Scholes' shot went over, you could lip read him yelling 'one day, one day!' at the crowd. Although when he tacked Pires, my automatic reaction was to side with Pires.
And then in the second half, when Eriksson subbed off Mikey and Rooney, I immediately thought uh-oh, shades of Brazil in the World cup. And then when they were only keeping one up by having every player back, I thought uh-oh even harder.
And then that free kick went in... I said to the guy sitting next to me 'if you'd asked me at the beginning of the match I'd've been happy with one all, just as long as they don't get a second...' and before I'd got to the end of the sentence, there was David James sprawled out accross the floor, and.... gyargh. I just can't imagine what it must feel like to not being able to save the penalty which you gave away yourself. Poor fucker.
I can't quite manage to work out the maths of how hard getting any futher is going to be now.
And now I've got to get back to revision.
Fucking fantastic first half. I mean, not perfect, but... not the kind of scrappy shite we've occasionally seen from them either. And a decent goal - at first I thought it was Mikey on the end of David's cross, which made me squee, but Lampard'll do for scoring goals. And when Scholes' shot went over, you could lip read him yelling 'one day, one day!' at the crowd. Although when he tacked Pires, my automatic reaction was to side with Pires.
And then in the second half, when Eriksson subbed off Mikey and Rooney, I immediately thought uh-oh, shades of Brazil in the World cup. And then when they were only keeping one up by having every player back, I thought uh-oh even harder.
And then that free kick went in... I said to the guy sitting next to me 'if you'd asked me at the beginning of the match I'd've been happy with one all, just as long as they don't get a second...' and before I'd got to the end of the sentence, there was David James sprawled out accross the floor, and.... gyargh. I just can't imagine what it must feel like to not being able to save the penalty which you gave away yourself. Poor fucker.
I can't quite manage to work out the maths of how hard getting any futher is going to be now.
And now I've got to get back to revision.
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Date: 2004-06-14 12:51 am (UTC)Gotta hold my hands up and say King played very well, despite the not-being-Carra-ness. Stevie's probably beating himself up about the back pass but he shouldn't, he was rock solid overall. Michael didn't have his best game but I think he was heavily marked..
Oh well. Just have to beat them in the final instead, eh?
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Date: 2004-06-14 01:49 am (UTC)I do want to watch them play again. It doesn't happen nearly often enough, and made for very pretty football.