OH SHUT UP! ITS ENOUGH ALREADY!
recently, the "ancient" and "old" and "retired" fuddy duddies of england football have caught the best traits of singaporean's culture - COMPLAIN-ism. since the whole world cup thing started, there have been endless talks abt how beckham ought not to be playing in the top eleven. well..although i am a personally big fan of becks which makes me stand in a bias light no matter how much i wish to prove to u guys that i will be impartial, here is my two cents worth.
in the first place, how can u ever expect anyone to be excellent in everything he does? try figuring Einstein designing a dress for victoria secret models...i admit becks aint exactly good at tackling the ball or defending...but he is good at aiming the ball directly towards his players..and that is IMPORTANT...thats wad won him the MAN of the Match against trinidad! and who dare say his free kicks aint deadly?
and the old fuddy duddies mentioned that the players are not at their top form. my gawd. under a temp. of 31 C. , whoever can play under the sun for that long a time...pls step up and show me how u do that for 90 ++ mins. running up and down ..i wanna watch a miracle. the only reason why these ancient footballers dun understand the pain is becoz they used to play their ancient football at night...football has changed to day time now in case ur failing eyesights cudn't capture the sunlight. grrr
also, if u are playing for ur country under the eyes of the world, wudn't u be sufficiently stressed up by the constant media coverage on u and everything u do on and off the pitch? but the senior citizens had apparently too forgot how it felt like to play like that under billions of watchful eyes and they had to add comments that beckham aint doin well. right. he aint in his top form. i can see that from the many performances i watched him play. but alas, u cannot expect him to show u his skill if the ball constantly travels on the left hand side of the pitch and he is suppose to guard the right hand side..make sense? i noe i do. and he is tryin his best. the only reason he aint doing as well as he like...is becoz of these additional stress added on him. i think in such trying time, they shud have given their full support regardless of wadeva.
but i guess all these is coming to a stop now since england lost to portugal thru penalty kicks. during the match, becks got subst by lennon due to leg injury. he cried not becoz the leg hurt. he cried coz he didn't wanted to be subst. he even motioned to the england coach dat he was fine and gave a thumbs up. but he got subst anw. he cried. i sobbed...okay...i wailed. happy? den christiano ronaldo played dirty. he knew rooney had a bad temper and purposely when to agitate him when rooney accidentally fouled a player. rooney on the other hand was dumb enuff to fall for such a non-idiot proof trap. got sent out of the pitch with a red card. hence i hereby conclude an equation i have been long dying to proof to the world, that is,

stupidity kills

actually, the ref is darn bias la...coz he is an argentinian. and england went to war once with argentina. ugh. politics in sports. but thats not the pt. the pt is it was also this ref that sent beckham out with a red card last tournament. i knew it was gonna happen before the game begun. i dunno whether to feel happy or sad i am right...i might gleefully added one more point. so far, the reason why rooney hasn't been gettin into trouble is becoz beckham has been there to pull him away from the disaster he is abt to get himself into. so did i unintentionally increased an extra point for the usefulness of beckham's presence? wait. there will be more to come.
it all ended with the penalty kicks of 1/5 penalty scored for england and 3/5 for portugal. 1/5? 1 out of 5? this wud not have happened if rooney had not been sent out and beckham had been playing. which MAY have levelled it to 3/5. but well...wads done cannot be undone. let the ancient monuments of england footballers mourn for the loss of england. or maybe shud reflect, if they have any brain left in them, if they had played a part in the loss. nah...dey wudn't do such a intelligent thing. they wud probably prepare their speech now on how sven (england coach) shud not have put becks in in the first place. actually, i dunno why i am feeling so upset for. this is the exact ending i wanted. i wanted england to take beck out. see how the rest made perfect clowns outta themselves with aiming the ball towards their opponents and scoring 1/5 goals. i want the world to noe..its not time for becks to step down yet. he may not be in his top form. but his talent is still indispensable. so in the end, ferdinand cried as well and beckham comforted him. two of my fav. players crying. sigh. even victoria becks was cryin. though i didn't noe she knew abt football. hmmmmz..hey juz tot of something. victoria is close buds with rooney's gf and in this match, when victoria's husband gets off the pitch, so does rooney. both of reluctant cases. haha...guess this is called "standing together thru thick and thin".
to be honest, i like christiano ronaldo (dos santo aveiro) alot. but i am really dissapointed with him in this tactical play against his own club teammate - rooney. it aint right. worst of all is that rooney is an england boy and christiano aint. but both are playing for man utd, a british club. i fear he may get thrashed like a pulp in the locker room by rooney and perhaps others when he return back from germany. wad else can i say apart from "may God have pity on you"?