RealClearSports: England Can't 'Wait 'Til Next Year'
By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
WIMBLEDON, England -- The pain isn't going away soon. This isn't Brooklyn in the 1940s. You can't say, "Wait ‘til next year.'' The next World Cup is four years away, four years for England to stew and grumble and wallow in the self-pity for which the English are famous.
"It's English custom,'' wrote Simon Barnes in The Times, "to seek someone to blame.''
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010
For RealClearSports.com
WIMBLEDON, England -- The pain isn't going away soon. This isn't Brooklyn in the 1940s. You can't say, "Wait ‘til next year.'' The next World Cup is four years away, four years for England to stew and grumble and wallow in the self-pity for which the English are famous.
"It's English custom,'' wrote Simon Barnes in The Times, "to seek someone to blame.''
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010