How nice it was, dear blog reader, to see those odious shite-scum Little Englander lice at the Sun - still clearly sore and bitter that their bestest chum in all the land Hapless Harry Redknapp didn't get the England job ahead of Roy Hodgson - trying hard to put a brave face on it when damning the England team with faint praise over yesterday's battling draw against the French. The prose might have been grudgingly positive in Shaun Curtis's match report ('Don't you feel just that little bit happier about the England football team this morning? There's no need to hide under a paper bag — you can have some pride in being a Three Lions supporter') but the odious right-wing scum newspaper - with its regular doses of bigotry, racism, big tits and homophobia - still nailed its colours firmly to the mast with its front-page splash.
Watch out, Roy, another draw against the Swedes on Friday and the honeymoon (such as it is) will most definitely be over. Still, it could be worse. We could be Ireland fans. Here's RTE's excellent Apres Match: Where It All Went Wrong!
England's opening Euro 2012 clash versus France brought in strong ratings on Monday overnight data reveals. Starting at 4pm, ITV's full coverage averaged 8.9m, peaking with over fifteen million at around 6.30pm as the match ended in a reasonably entertaining 1-1 draw. BBC1's screening of the other Group D game, Sweden v Ukraine, scored 5.27m from 7pm.
Sponsors Pukka Pies are to make an official protest to UEFA after The England Band was refused entry into last night's Euro 2012 encounter in Donetsk. The band travelled two and a half thousand miles by road to get to Ukraine for the game. But despite prior assurances from the Football Association and from UEFA, the band were not allowed to bring their instruments into the Donbass Arena. The band have been a feature of England games for the past two decades and estimate they have been present for over three hundred consecutive matches. Last night was the first time they have been refused entry to a game and no reason was given for the decision.
The band were allowed entry once their instruments had been confiscated and the authorities said they would be returned after the final whistle. 'We are going to make an official protest about this matter,' said a spokesman for Pukka Pies. 'There were no grounds for taking this disgraceful action, which is over-zealous in the extreme. Needless to say, we intend the band to be back in its rightful place by the time we get to Kiev for the Sweden game on Friday.' And UEFA had better have some pretty good excuses lined up because the Daily Scum Mail are on their case. Mind you, they should get on pretty well with UEFA, those well-known appeasers of right-wing scumbags and despots, despite the fact that, they're all, you know, foreigners. After all, the Scum Mail was a big fan of Herr Hitler.
England's opening Euro 2012 clash versus France brought in strong ratings on Monday overnight data reveals. Starting at 4pm, ITV's full coverage averaged 8.9m, peaking with over fifteen million at around 6.30pm as the match ended in a reasonably entertaining 1-1 draw. BBC1's screening of the other Group D game, Sweden v Ukraine, scored 5.27m from 7pm.
Sponsors Pukka Pies are to make an official protest to UEFA after The England Band was refused entry into last night's Euro 2012 encounter in Donetsk. The band travelled two and a half thousand miles by road to get to Ukraine for the game. But despite prior assurances from the Football Association and from UEFA, the band were not allowed to bring their instruments into the Donbass Arena. The band have been a feature of England games for the past two decades and estimate they have been present for over three hundred consecutive matches. Last night was the first time they have been refused entry to a game and no reason was given for the decision.
The band were allowed entry once their instruments had been confiscated and the authorities said they would be returned after the final whistle. 'We are going to make an official protest about this matter,' said a spokesman for Pukka Pies. 'There were no grounds for taking this disgraceful action, which is over-zealous in the extreme. Needless to say, we intend the band to be back in its rightful place by the time we get to Kiev for the Sweden game on Friday.' And UEFA had better have some pretty good excuses lined up because the Daily Scum Mail are on their case. Mind you, they should get on pretty well with UEFA, those well-known appeasers of right-wing scumbags and despots, despite the fact that, they're all, you know, foreigners. After all, the Scum Mail was a big fan of Herr Hitler.
