Every penalty has pressure on it. Kane hammered two cracking pens in. Superb. If the keeper makes a save then fair play to him If you do a Siggurdsson and miss the target...bottler..
Perhaps you missed the last 20-odd years. If you hadn't been laid in that long, you'd be spunking your pants, too. That doesn't mean you don't have a sense that you're never going to get laid again but being a misery about it is only going to spoil the shag you're getting. But then some people like to be hurt during sex. You must've been very sad that Panama wasn't another Iceland. Go stand in the corridor with the press gimps.
I just don't get carried away with an expected victory. I am on record as saying not getting out of this group would be an absolute disaster. It was that easy. I am on record as saying england should get to QF due to draw. Lets not put words in my mouth with iceland which was an unmitigated disaster. Getting all carried away with an easy win and then getting all morose when belgium spank us is not my thing. I take a nice middle road. I expect england to win easy v panama, I don't expect an easy game at all v belgium. WIlling to predict right now a "sky falling in" scenario in some quarters if england **** it v belgium. Equally i could see both teams playing a draw is good enough here attitude and it being a boring 0-0. btw last 20 years? that goes do back to 1998 no? Michael owen spunkfest? Erikson telling us we'd win it and beckham redeeming himself v argies in 2002 then the brazil disaster by seaman? Or 2004 rooney broken toe? and the list goes on and on.
Back in the '86 WC I had Denmark in the office sweep. They beat Uruguay 6-1 in the group stage. Think they were knocked out in the next round by Spain. Just saying.
the second one. Much higher pressure. The first one was an early tap in... where i assume england had their tails up and would have thought 3 or 4 goals coming here. the second one was last gasp saving our hides and as such was a match winner.
This World Cup seems to be doing more for the prospect of another Scottish independence referendum than if Nicola Sturgeon were sat in Lineker's seat. The Jockanese are up in arms about the biased TV coverage and it's not just Danny Murphy's use of "we" upsetting the ABE Army. There's too much positivity. #bbcbias They're getting carried away. #stopsingingwhenyouwin This from the nation that had a helicopter send-off from Hampden for the team gong to Argentina in 1978. As Hugh McDonald wrote in the Glasgow Herald: "The holding of a parade at Hampden before the national team headed for Argentina in 1978 now seems like an unnecessary invitation for humiliation to stride through the door marked Scottish Football History." And Scotland RSVP'd the invite with more humiliation than England have mustered in 52 years of hurt. Gubbed by Peru and drawing with Iran to place them firmly in the third world of football, they still cling diligently to one Archie Gemmill goal, repeated ad nauseum on Scottish TV, against the Dutch in a match that the "greatest team never to win the World Cup" had to lose by one goal to avoid Brazil in the next round. Result? Holland lost by one goal. What the tartan glasses of nostalgia comfortingly edit out is their defenders didn't want to tackle Gemmill for fear of getting a card and missing a game but once that goal went in, Holland were an inconvenient two behind, so they stepped up to third gear and two minutes later Johnny Rep hit a screamer to make it 3-2, a goal an entire nation has had collective amnesia about ever since. The Dutch returned to strolling around in second gear and Jock heads went down in the helpless realisation that they were being toyed with, like a cat with a dying third world mouse. Alan Rough takes up the memory, still so fondly held round out way: "We flew to Argentina in a big Jumbo, sitting in that bubble at the top of the plane. On the way home, we were all stuck up the back. The plane stopped off at Heathrow and I was sitting with my pals Derek [Johnstone] and Joe [Harper] and saw all these players getting off who never left a plane in London. They were obviously ducking out of landing in Glasgow. We had received the phone calls, there was to be a reception committee." By reception committee he means some Weegie neds on the airport tarmac with very hostile banners. The wife of Scottish football commentator, Arthur "It's a stramash" Montford said he was never the same on his return and spent his time standing in his garden mumbling and kicking rocks. Their carefree "we dinnae take oorsels seriously" jocularity is as fake as Trump's tan. Carried away, my arse. And yet, perversely, they're still more positive about England than MITO.
