On average, over the rest of their lives, each of these children will have to endure the spectacle of England crashing out of international football championships on penalties a further twenty-nine times. Look at those fresh, hopeful faces and imagine a football boot stamping on each one—forever.
Surely there is no God.
True
Ditto. This game should be totally forbidden in Britain under the death penalty clause. And this Back Ham guy installed in the House of Lords with the other senile characters past their shelf date.
Re existence of God (or god, as the case might be), the opposite is true – he is hinting (or, rather, frantically semaphoring) about the need to stop this self-flagellation for the last 40 (44 now) years. It is just that some people cannot take a hint…
You’re a cruel cruel man Pooter