Monday, June the 12th, 2006
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I said that I would not babble on about the World Cup, but that was merely a rash promise, easily broken. And how can I not mention the superb comment by Santiago Segurola in El Pais regarding England's opening performance against Paraguay?
“It's hard to say what England were,” he wrote, “A flat team, grotesque and contaminating.”
You can almost hear the chewy disgust in that exquisite choice of words (albeit in translation). Why can't the inarticulate has-beens slumped in their TV studio chairs talk like that?
“What did you think of the first half, Brian?”
“It was grotesque, it was contaminating, it filled my belly with disgust. Such a display of depravity have I ne'er seen in all my days in the dugout.”
I have also been toying with the idea of noting down some of the more baffling comments from the commentary box, so watch this space…