Why should I Support the England Football Team?

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

2010 World Cup, World News

I would like to say well done to the England football team for qualifying to next years FIFA World Cup in South Africa. And boy! didn’t they do it in spectacular fashion. Europe’s top scorers, the best ever goal tally for an England team and qualifying with two games to play….lol! Is this England’s best chance of winning the World Cup since….1966? Expectations are high.

But should I support England just because I now live in England?

My workmate from Sri Lankan reckons I’m not being patriotic by not supporting the England sporting teams….I admit most of the times I support the team which plays against England. For years it has been like that, so should I change now because I now live in England. To show a bit of loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen of England?

To me this is sport and I have the right to support whoever I feel like supporting, nothing about being patriotic or un-patriotic.

Besides that, England always disappoints. The best they will ever get to in football is the Quarter-Finals, anything better than that will be expecting too much from the over-rated English players.

I must admit right now they have a bit of quality in the team. But they always say this, don’t they?

Besides winning the World Cup in 1966, what else has England achieved in football? Like I said before, Quarter-Finals is the best England can achieve. The exception being the World Cup 1990, when the world of football conspired to cheat Africa, and the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon. That was bad for football.

So, South Africa better get well prepared to deal with drunk England’s football supporters. We like them they have passion, they always expect their team to win all the time. But when drunk they can spectacularly show the bad side of England football.

I hope this time the England team will give me a reason to cheer them on. South Africa here we come! But does it matter who I will be supporting?

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