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World Cup 2010 Blog – Breaking up isn’t hard to do

by: Alex Hammond
  • 28/06/2010
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England exiting a tournament always feels a bit like a painful break-up. But at least this time it feels like a relationship you should never have been in to start with.

It’s the morning after the day before and the sense of despondency and defeat is all too familiar, but this year it is also met with a feeling of relief, like we have finally made a clean break from a bad relationship.

Whereas previous England World Cup campaigns have felt like they have been prematurely cut short by poor luck and fickle fate, this campaign thankfully provided a clean break.

Exits 1986, 1990, 1998 and 2006 were complicated. There was unfinished business, too many unanswered questions, what ifs, and what could have beens. They were the equivalent of being told: “It’s not you, it’s me.”

However, this year we have been told: “It most definitely is you, now go away.”

It’s not the easiest message to take on board straightaway. But when you look back at what we have taken from England’s flirtation with the world stage in South Africa – disappointment, disillusionment, anxiety to name but three – the negatives far outweigh the positives. We should probably count ourselves lucky it has ended so soon.

Now we are free to have a wandering eye, to enjoy the exotic beauty of the Latin Americans, the laid back flair of the Spanish and, dare I say it, the ruthless efficiency of the Germans.

We have been set free to enjoy the World Cup, so let’s do just that.

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