I didn't support Germany at last night's match in Bloemfontein, but there are plenty of reasons why I didn't want to see England win. Nor did I expect them to. As I've been telling any fool who'll listen for the past few weeks, England were never more than mediocre.
The mauling by the Germans was a blessing, saving the lads from a more humiliating 7 - 0 pasting from the likes of Argentina.
You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Rooney, Gerrard and Lampard, now they have to go home and witness on their 50" plasma screens just how ludicrous it was to imagine they ever had a prayer with players like Messi, Juan Veron, and Carlos Tevez.
The present form of English patriotism is not pretty, and encourages the worst elements. The English gutter press is a disgrace, calling the German boys Huns, and going on to accuse them of not being proper Germans because of where their parents were born. Fuckers who peddle this kind of shite deserve no success.
The abject nature of English patriotism is summed up by the singing of the shameful anthem, God Save the Queen. No one prepared to sing such a ridiculous song in public deserves any success. I'm willing to sing Jerusalem, but never that.
It's the remaining streak of imperialism that disfigures English patriotism. This is behind why Sarkozy has to appear deeply troubled by the deaths of 40 French soldiers in Afghanistan, yet there is no British outrage after more than 300 have been killed, and many more wounded. If patriotism is supporting our boys being killed at the rate of one a week, I'm not a patriot.
300 young lives lost and not a single British newspaper nor major political party is campaigning to get the troops out Afghanistan, and out of harms way.
A month ago I put a tenner on a Holland - Argentina final, and a tenner on Argentina to win. Looks like this could be a nice little earner.
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