Categorized | 1946-1985, Scotland, Uruguay, World Cup

5 Comments For This Post

1. dearieme Says:
   July 10th, 2010 at 10:11 pm

   Needless cruelty there.

2. dearieme Says:
   July 11th, 2010 at 12:08 am

   What’s been your worst thing in the World Cup coverage, James?
   For me it’s been a toss up between
   (1) The BBC commentary on England v Algeria: it was at the hysterical level of one-eyed ignorance that I’ve previously seen only in Australia.
   (2) The stomach-curdling poltrooney involved in the clips we’ve been shown of what I’ve come to think of as Plonkers Patronising Picaninnies.

3. dearieme Says:
   July 11th, 2010 at 9:56 am

   Even disgust doesn’t excuse bad spelling: “poltroonery”.

4. dearieme Says:
   July 11th, 2010 at 3:44 pm

   Though come to think of it, it may be a happy invention. “Poltrooney plays as striker for England”: ah!

5. dearieme Says:
   July 11th, 2010 at 11:05 pm

   The Final: the better team won. But they no more knew how to use a speed merchant than Arsenal do.

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