unclesox:
Tremendous failures in front of your home supporters such as those is enough to keep anyone from appearing - let alone gloating - on a message board.
Oh, man!!! Ouch!!! That one alone is a perfect good example of what I meant! Sadly, you didn't mention Benfica kicking Manchester United and Liverpool out of Champions League. Strange memory...
unclesox:
Still, this thread is 98 pages long. Since you've been participating in this thread from the start, how about giving us some reminders of this supposed "English arrogance" you enjoy ridiculing by providing a few quotes before I decide whether I should take you seriously or not?
Now I'm being serious with the following advice: never take a discussion about football seriously! It's impossible for a football discussion to achieve such a status. Anyway, I wasn't mentioning this thread in particular, I was referring to the blogsphere. Go to technorati.com and do a search on terms like "Rooney", "World Cup", "Portugal", "England", etc... If you do it open minded, I'm sure you'll find a lot of examples to illustrate the English arrogance. And then, maybe not!
unclesox:
Btw, you might want to r?mind your Portug?$? buddy ov?r th?r? that Mourinho may hav? b??n th? manag?r of th? t?am that ha$ won th? £a$t two Pr?mi?r$hip tit£?$, but h?'$ NOT th? main r?a$on why th? "Roman ?mpir?" i$ what it i$.
Again, your memory is playing tricks... You forgot to mention that in the two previous years before going to Chelsea, Mourinh won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League with FC Porto, a team with a modest budget when compared to the traditional European giants, English included. One final note: I think it's so sad that SOME England supporters spend most of their energies blaming the ref or their own coach for their results. After all, England reached the quarters and it's my conviction that any team that reaches the quarters can become World Champs. The teams at that stage are simply so balanced that it's the luck of a single game that decides everything. If the quarters matches were to be repeated tomorrow, I'm sure we would have diferent results. Also, England played better with only 10, after Rooney saw the (deserved) red card. That shows brilliantism from their players. England supporters don't seem to care about that, unfortunately!