England’s trouncing in the Round of 16 at the feet of Germany will send the footy-first nation into a period of introspection. Bitter and Blue’s Danny Pugsley takes inventory of the English landscape in the wake of Sunday’s loss
World Cup Perspectives: The Cold Realization About England’s Soccer
England fans are often a myopic bunch, cosseted with the belief from the Sky Sports propaganda that the Premier League is the best league in the world, so naturally the eleven who wear the Three Lions by rights should have a legitimate claim on winning tournaments, despite the weight of history that proves otherwise.
And admittedly, whilst the dust has not even settled on England’s exit let alone decisions been taken as to where England’s ‘golden generation’ now go, there is a palpable sense that the manner of the defeat has managed to extinguish the one emotion that England could cling to – hope. The one commodity that seemingly sustains a nation throughout failure upon failure.
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