Quote Originally Posted by JamesMcClean View Post
The news broadcasts since yesterday have been minter-tastic. Some of the reports on Germany's exit have been akin to Funster obsession with United - i.e. celebrate someone else's demise rather than any of your own team's efforts. I'm still sticking by my original post - I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this, not because Ingerlund are in any way world class (far from it), but because our usual best bets seem to be rubbish so far and they have managed to get a draw that they couldn't improve on even if they did it themselves.
And, as per, the media is starting to get unbearable.
Totally agree and being of an ABE persuasion really beginning to worry. The smug looks on the faces of the pundits, nearly all of them, about Germany's demise is cringeworthy especially Linekar (there's a face that you'd never weary of punching) and Wright (what a tube). They are acting in exactly the same way that the Scots have regarded English defeats (I admit I enjoy little better than seeing the English media led bubble burst) but the English "could never understand our attitude towards them" and thought we would be right behind them at previous tournaments. I don't dislike the English players or their current style of football, just the hyped up media attitude that makes them unbearable. I still hope in my lifetime we will see Scotland back into a major finals tournament and performing with a liklihood of perhaps getting through a group stage. If we do then no doubt the Scottish media will hype everything up like Argentina 78 but that does not make the current antics of the English press and pundits any better. I thought this time they were all going to take a laid back, we do not expect much attitude but a scraped draw against an ordinary Tunisia and a thrashing of a totally out of their depth Panama and they are back to script of putting huge pressure on their team with their we are the best side left, we can win this attitude.