Despite being Scottish, i do find myself supporting England when it comes to the World Cup. But 2010 has already proved a difficult year, even for an arm’s-length England fan. The warm up matches before the World Cup saw a fairly lucky win over Mexico (who dominated the game for the most part), followed by a even luckier win against the Japanese.

 

England’s arrival in South Africa for the tournament itself didn’t quite go to plan either, with a pretty average display against the renowned footballing country that is USA. The man who suffered most, perhaps fairly, was goalkeeper Robert Green, failing to collect a mediocre attempt on goal and instead allowing it to trundle across the line for the USA to equalise.

 

It would be fair to say it was a calamitous mistake and will no doubt have upset the man himself. So if you were (or are) a member of Robert Green’s family, now might be a good time to get him an early Christmas present to cheer him up. If England are to move forward in the tournament with Robert Green in goal, then he will undoubtedly need the rest of his team to rally around him and give him some kind of confidence boost before the kick off against Algeria. Ideally we need to send the perfect Xmas gift for him, so perhaps a giant inflatable ball … you know, for training purposes. Not the one that Liverpool so love, but Wayne Rooney could fire it at him all day long and not even Green could drop that one, thus restoring a little confidence.

 

Maybe the gift should be a table football game, (maybe an unusual gift for him perhaps), complete with no goalkeepers, just to replicate how England fans felt against the USA. If we are even smarter, perhaps we can persuade the next referee that the Kickster Goal Pro 2000 goalposts are actually standard size, but then England didn’t seem all that clever at scoring unless the posts were placed in row Z.

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