World Cup Fever.

Heather, Nathan, Auri, and I made it out this evening to our favorite British pub, the George and Dragon, for England's second World Cup match. They won the game 2-0, but you'd never know it from the headlines on The Guardian: "Witless England Dig Their Way Out". Hilarious!

Some highlights:
"At the close England's players departed to cheers, but the scorn at the interval is the sound they should replay in their minds."

In reference to injured star striker Wayne Rooney: "Talisman he may be, but after the metatarsal injury that has educated the nation in one tiny area of orthopaedics, Rooney is also a forward dulled by seven weeks on the sidelines." This line is just too funny--one can only imagine the diagrams of gnarly feet that the country had pounded into their heads over the past several weeks.

And, on embattled forward Peter Crouch: "Crouch had been even more extravagant when England were not riddled with fear."

Gotta love those descriptions.

The Guardian did give a smartassed nod to one of their stars, Michael Owen, in a related article with the immortal headline: "Crouching lion, hidden Owen".

Don't miss the next match on Tues, June 20...