The Fiver | Their unique kind of gallows hubris
In today’s Fiver: Gareth Southgate stroking his beard, Zlatan v Pep, Premier League one-appearance wonders, Ronnie Moran RIP
The phrase “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” could have been invented for the England football team, if only it hadn’t been coined by some bloody foreigner. Every few years they and their followers restart the same pattern of hope, expectation, arrogance, insecurity, despair, failure and BBC montages. We know how tournament football works: when the going gets tough, England get going on the first available flight back home. Holland gave us Total Football; Spain introduced tiki-taka to the world; England bring their unique kind of gallows hubris.
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