I get a lot of stick for my negative tweets toward our beloved England football team. This does not mean I don't support them. Quite the opposite, in fact. I am a very patriotic person and would like nothing more than to watch England win something.
The thing is, I am English. Being English, means I have to suffer the torment of watching some of our greatest sporting talent struggle and limp their way to victory/near victory.
"Oh, you should be more supportive toward them".
No, these are some of the highest/overpaid people on the planet. Their ONLY job in life is to get a ball into the back of a net.
Watching England play is painful. I can't relax. I have no faith in them. I sit there, knowing they will do something utterly retarded and lose the match.
It's not just football. We can't even win convincingly in Formula One. In 2008, Lewis Hamilton wins the Championship by one point. The one point he gained on the final corner of the final lap of the final race. I spent the whole race, sitting there, my heart sinking, knowing he'd lost it.
In 2009, Jenson Button spends the first half of the year dominating. "Yes!!" I thought, he's won this. Then, in true British form, he then forgets how to drive and his team forgets how to make a winning car, meaning the rest of the season was spent watching him slowly lose grasp on the championship. Then on the final race, he wakes up and manages to win the title.
Being British isn't easy, but it just means when we do win something big, the whole country has an orgasm.
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