"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" - NOT!

There I was, filled with the joys of Spring even though it hasn't stopped raining since Christmas, my heart uplifted by the prospect of Brexit, my only slight disappointment being that last night I couldn't watch England play their 'practice match' against Iceland (prior to walloping 'les Frogs' later on) because of a prior social engagement and then - quelle horreur! - I come home to the news that we lost!

WE ACTUALLY LOST - TO ICELAND!

With a football team whose combined wages are larger than the gross domestic product of several countries - combined!  This bunch of 'tippy-tappy twerps' deserve the generic soubriquet once affectionately applied to the American army during the war - "they're over-paid, over-sexed and over here"!  The only good thing is that I was unable to watch it and all I have to do now is wipe it from my 'do-flicker-recording-thingie' - which is what I would like to do to that entire bunch of droopy, drippy flowers that masquerades as the England football team.  As for the 'manager', he should be sued for impersonation!

Comments

[The Jannie]

According to that paragon of truthful reporting Auntie Beeb, Iceland has no professional football teams and their manager is a dentist. The big question is how much the "England team" were each paid for their minor role in this fiasco. Maybe they should be paid piece work . . .

[Cuffleyburgers]

I gather there was a certain amount of ill tempered jubilation in the berlaymont last night - for wholly understandable reasons.

Wankers.

Anyway, I'm off for some fish fingers - it's the new wonder food!

[David Duff]

From your local Iceland Store, I assume, Cuffers!

[Whyaxye]

From the outset, I saw the football as being like the Labour Party: to be glanced at as a break from the news, not to be taken seriously, and soon to be over.

[AussieD]

Perhaps you should have used the English Rugby Union team. After all that is real football unlike that pansy pussyfooting ballet with a round ball.

And yes you beat the Wallabies 3 nil.

[Lord T]

It was all a mistake. These simpletons though we had to exit the Euro as per the referendum. So they did.

[Whitewall]

Fish fingers? I have got to catch a member of that species for a look see!

[TheBigHenry]

Robert,

I am quite certain that "fish fingers" is a golden repository for some very nasty off-color humor, which is likely beyond the pale for such a respectable salon as this one :)

[Whitewall]

Henry, Respectable salon as this?? I Must be in the wrong place. I thought this was Duff and Nonsense...

[TheBigHenry]

Robert,

Well, alright; I'll fess up -- I am reluctant to let my imagination run wild and woolly in a place I have only recently begun to comment ...

[Andra]

Iceland has suddenly become the flavour of the month. I see now that its all about Iceland and I never gave Iceland a moment's thought in my whole life until last week.
They make wheelchairs, they make yoghurt and they win stuff. I sort of thought there were only about 50 people in Iceland and now they seem to be in charge of everything.
How do you account for that?

[Cuffleyburgers]

Well Andra, there're not in the EU of course and they told their banks to foxtrot oscar when they went tits up. Shame about the weather, but otherwise a thoroughly splendid place.

[backofanenvelope]

What's wrong with the weather in Iceland? Compared with, for instance, down here in Cornwall. Where I have woken up to yet another grey wet end-of-June day.

[Peter Whale]

10 million people have signed the petition for a rematch to overthrow the result or was it for Brexit.

[AussieD]

Ten million signatures, one of them English.