How could I possibly get this far through the day without passing comment on England's heroic failure in the Euro qualifier they played last night on the artificial pitch (blah, blah) in Moscow against Gus Hiddinck's slavic battlers.
The heroic element in this defeat for the benefit of those unfamiliar the the ebb and flow of the match derives from the fact that England actually led for a long period of the match through a goal scored by that total glamour puss Wayne Rooney. And then they gave it all away in a manner all to familiar to those who understand the quality and nature as well as litteral meaning of the expression 'England Batting Collapse'. All the finest quality EBCs have followed a period of a match wherein England's workhorse bowlers and jelly fingered fielders have somehow negotiated the team into a position of relative strength.
So hats off to Steve Maclaren and the lads. Well done. And a commendation too, to the Jocks who succeeded in tripping over their own bootlaces in Georgia.
Finally, I'm getting a bit anxious about the RWC final this weekend. Short of actually shooting him or hamstringing him I'd take it as a kindness if someone could bring Bryan Habana down: say with a really, really bad flu he can't recover from before Sunday night. I fear this is the only way of putting England in with a chance.
And finally I am very proud of myself for eschewing a nicety so nice as to be beyond pedantic and out in the extremes of linguistic pomposity. I left out an apostrophe so 'no longer required' as to be wrong in its use rather than its absence. I know this because someone told 'me' this on the radio yesterday.
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