Yes, in spite of what the late Bill Shankly said, a game of football is simply that, a game. I have always understood that a game of football is a game between two sides of nominally eleven players at any one time and the better team on the day wins. Now forgive me if I have missed something yesterday, but isn’t that what happened?
There were, of course, other sporting events taking place over the last couple of days. One Andy Murray won a gripping tennis match against Gilles Simon, Jorge Lorenzo won an excellent Dutch MotoGP at Assen, Sebastian Vettel led two British drivers home at the European Formula 1 Grand Prix at Valencia, even an “England” team won a cricket match against Australia and thereby clinched a series win against an old enemy.
The superb and exciting sporting performances are being ignored by an outrageously biased and irresponsible media who only want a re-run of WWII for the umpteenth time on a football pitch.
Let’s be absolutely clear, an over-hyped game of football between two teams, one representing England and one representing Germany, is still ONLY A GAME! It is NOT that important.
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dont forget welshman geraint thomas winning the british cycling road race champion and nicole cooke runner up in the ladies event.
Perhaps mentioned in the western mail.
And you are right about the se of england media machine including the Bbc who are the biggest culprits at this jingoistic nonesense.
However at a time of PC madness there is an argument that the working class can only show nationalistic pride at such a game as it's largely offensive at all other times.
And the hype is generated largely by the murdoch media who have alienated not only the genuine supporters but allowed those blessed enough to play professional and international football to seemingly determine whether they put much worth or effort into representing their country in such an event.
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