Updated On: 11 July, 2010 06:43 AM IST | | Khalid A-H Ansari
So what if the England football team's performance in the current World Cup was so conspicuously pathetic that even its most loyal fans have ridiculed it
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So what if the England football team's performance in the current World Cup was so conspicuously pathetic that even its most loyal fans have ridiculed it.u00a0
For many in a former colonial power who arrogantly refuse to believe that the sun has set on their empire, it matters little that English players in this World Cup have become the favourite butt of jokes the world over, with God's gift to football, Wayne Rooney, anointed ugliest player by an international panel of fans for his raffish appearance and boorish behaviour.
u00a0All manner of excuses and scapegoatsu00a0- including the disallowed goal against Germany (as though the team would have won but for it) are being advanced as laughable reasons for the greatly-hyped team's earth-shattering (!) exit from the Cup.
Characteristically, the unfailingly chauvinistic and eternally optimistic English media has found new claims to fame to gloat over.u00a0
If the media's claims are to be believed, Paul the oracular octopus, who has become an international celebrity for his alleged soothsaying abilities, was born in British waters off Weymouth.
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