BBC news has a wonderful, if incredibly bitter, piece on the misfortunes of England in the world of sports, the Euro 2004 soccer loss to Portugal being among the recent highlights:
It takes years of practice and dedication which mere amateurs would have no idea about. Anyone can lose anonymously or unmemorably, but raising your game to lose spectacularly takes a sense of drama of which Shakespeare himself would be proud.
Cheer up, mate!
Immediately reminds me of the release on the paper “Jesus Wept but Did the Englishman?” given at “Masculinity, Patriarchy and Power” at the University of Southampton.
“Today, sport is an outlet of acceptable release for men’s emotions.”