When Will They Ever Learn?

[lucie_p]

Oh, England!

That's what happens when you forget all about rule #1 for playing in international championships.

*sigh*

Comments

[lucie_p]

Ja, das hätte ihnen möglicherweise genutzt.

Rule #1 für die Engländer ist allerdings, Elfmeterschießen um jeden Preis zu vermeiden.

[shiv5468]

You're not wrong there.

And we'd even been practising them this time. Usually we don't bother for some strange reason.

Not that it made any difference.

[lucie_p]

Practising might have been what was wrong in the first place - it sees to have given the team a horribly wrong confidence in their abilities.

Now we will have to kick those sneaky Italians out of the tournament.

[muridae_x]

No, I think that you've got Rule #1 wrong. ;-)

It's not "Avoid penalties at all costs". It's "If it's not 1966, England will go out of the tournament on penalties. It can't be avoided."

[lucie_p]

You actually do have a point there. ;)

The good thing is that it means England will always go past the group stage.