World Cup 2006

It is finally over...and English football fans don't know what to do with themselves!!! The premiership games rolled into the World cup, and now they have to wait for a whole month before it starts up again.

I am so glad I was over here for it. I heard that the games were only showed on Cable in the states. Over here, the final was carried on 3 different broadcast channels, and I would venture to guess that about 3/4 of all of the viewing public was actually watching the game.

As much as they love their footie over here, they also love to tear down their favorite players too. The England team didn't do so well, and were basically banished when they returned home. All of the players were apologizing in the press, over and over. It was really weird. But I guess I am just used to a team that doesn't do well, so I wasn't too bothered that they didn't make it to far. I must say, I got some pretty good teasing about the US team. But no one really expected much out of them to start with, so it was alright.