The Murray Syndrome
What’s with English, or to be more exact, British heads? You see it in tennis, you see it in football. No British player has won a Grand Slam event in God knows how many years. No British team has won the World Cup in about the same amount of years. Take Murray, for instance. I may not like the guy but sometimes he plays very good tennis. Even if he is not at the level of Federer or Rafa, he surely matches Safin. This year, Down Under he played some really good stuff. Until the final, that is. He was simply demolished by Federer. One couldn’t but wonder how he got there in the first place. And it was not the first time. Remember the battle of Andy-s at Wimbledon last year? He tried and tried but went down in the end. The same with football. They massacred the competition in the qualifying phase of the World Cup. Beating everyone they met along the way. When they got to South Africa, it was all gone. Green put the ball in his own net. Rooney was afraid of the ball; he was hiding somewhere all the time. Even when he eventually got it, he didn’t know how to get rid of it soon enough. No goals, no shots at goal, nothing. Terry was more preoccupied with his ego after the ‘captaincy’ issue. Three of Germany’s four goals were of his doing. Gerrard and Lampard were the only ones to at least try and play the game. The rest were having stone feet. It would be better for them to have stone heads too; at least they could be used as ornaments at Wembley. You know, like gargoyles.
Attila Andrasy
28/06/2010
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Good point! The English are once again unable to fight the good fight. Incapable of fighting at all, as a matter of fact. What a shame!