Loading ...Englands Cunning World Cup Plan
It’s a plan so cunning that even master planner Baldrick would be proud of it. A plan so cunning that if the mayor of Cunnington in the county of Cunningshire announced that he had come up with it everybody would believe him. The plan is simple, to play in such a way in their first game that it fools every other team in the World Cup into believing that the English players are a bunch of ill disciplined, sluggish, sideways running, tackle missing amateurs. It worked.
Have you ever seen a team look so lethargic in their World Cup opening game? I’m thinking hard but to be honest I can’t, that had to be one of the worst performances by an English team at any world level championships…in any sport. It was dire to watch and I pity the fools at ITV who had the job of convincing us different. I’m not even going to start on what the players did wrong, frankly I don’t have the time nor the fingers for it. Besides I’m 100% sure they know in themselves that the performance levels were nowehere near good enough, they don’t need the insights of yet ANOTHER internet warrior to disect a crap performance.
It’s not all bad news though, England did actually win! Christ only knows how and for my money more through an inspired substitution, plenty of luck, a slightly dodgy (not) late tackle call and some wayward kicking by the Argentinians than anything else. But a win is win is a win, the points are the same whether you scrape by with a 4 point victory or are 50 points up. This game will leave Argentina more than likely needing a victory over Scotland to progress. Hopefully for the England fans sakes the second part of their cunning plan involves the players turning up with their game heads on for the next match and showing what they are really capable off, that would be tackling and breaking the line for a start!
I don’t think too many people imagined a group comprised of England, Scotland, Argentina and Romania earning the title “the group of death” before these first round games but right now that’s just about where we stand. Scotland were far from convincing, England were dire, Argentina looked very good for 65 minutes and Romania are not out of it. Could be a real crap shoot of a group with the runners up joyful in the knowledge that they’ll likely have to play New Zealand in the quarter finals, now that’s something to look forward to!
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