Sualdam
11-25-2003, 05:56 AM
You'd think we never won anything before.
This morning on breakfast TV the stations were falling over each other to get the squad as they returned from Australia.
The players looked exhausted, and not very happy at the press conference.
The organiser was repeatedly yelling at reporters to sit down so other people could see (they were like excited little children).
The reporter allowed to ask the first question was the envy of the rest. He asked the deepest, most soul-searching question - that was also on the lips of every other 2-bit reporter present. That question was ....
"What was it like to win the World Cup?"
Of course, everyone in the room laughed at this, because it was clearly a very good question, not to mention very witty in all kinds of ways.
We then had 20 minutes of variations on the same question from every other reporter in the room, accompanied by repeated shouts to sit down so others could see.
For the fourth day in a row the newspapers are carrying front-page, back-page, centre spreads, and four or six page spreads inside about the team members. Like there's no other news.
For the second time in four days I think I saw the players being rated out of 10 - and they all got 11 (sigh).
The Sun had a poster you could stick up in your window. Again.
When you think that us winning the Football World Cup in 1966 lasted an interminable 50 years near enough, what on earth have we got to look forward to here...?
The only good thing is that the Aussie press is eating humble pie big time :)
Now, if THEY had to suffer for the next 50 years until we win something else it wouldn't be so bad...
This morning on breakfast TV the stations were falling over each other to get the squad as they returned from Australia.
The players looked exhausted, and not very happy at the press conference.
The organiser was repeatedly yelling at reporters to sit down so other people could see (they were like excited little children).
The reporter allowed to ask the first question was the envy of the rest. He asked the deepest, most soul-searching question - that was also on the lips of every other 2-bit reporter present. That question was ....
"What was it like to win the World Cup?"
Of course, everyone in the room laughed at this, because it was clearly a very good question, not to mention very witty in all kinds of ways.
We then had 20 minutes of variations on the same question from every other reporter in the room, accompanied by repeated shouts to sit down so others could see.
For the fourth day in a row the newspapers are carrying front-page, back-page, centre spreads, and four or six page spreads inside about the team members. Like there's no other news.
For the second time in four days I think I saw the players being rated out of 10 - and they all got 11 (sigh).
The Sun had a poster you could stick up in your window. Again.
When you think that us winning the Football World Cup in 1966 lasted an interminable 50 years near enough, what on earth have we got to look forward to here...?
The only good thing is that the Aussie press is eating humble pie big time :)
Now, if THEY had to suffer for the next 50 years until we win something else it wouldn't be so bad...