World Cup 2010 Smack down in the Chicken Wing Battle

The above image snapped on the BBC Front Page website displays a simple comment promoting Radio 4's Today programme.  

'Is USA on track to beat UK again in the World Cup?'

Hmmm as far as I can recall the UK have never had a representative team play at the World Cup. Also the USA have never played either Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales in the World Cup. I presume the reference is to England, I know that the USA played them in Brazil at the 1950 World Cup and defeated them 1-0. Scotland played its part in the Yank team with the manager Bill Jeffrey and captain Ed McIlvenny both being Scots.


Perhaps this is just another example of the BBC's interchangable use of 'England' and the 'UK'. Too often when Scots pick the BBC up on this wilful one-size-fits-all usage, we're accused of being chippy, much like the Labour MP's that shout 'who cares' across the floor at SNP MP's whenever an attempt is made to redress a Westminster imbalance, we're expected to just shut up and get on with it. Shout out and we're accused of Anglophobia...even racism! Our self loathing tabloids will soon be in full on dribbling mentalism, looking for real or imagined incidents when one drunken twat hits another, who happens to be wearing an England top...

Well come Saturday 12th of June at 7.30pm, there's only one team I'll be supporting...





and if that doesn't whet your appetite for the underdog...

"Vi er best i verden! Vi er best i verden! Vi har slått England 2-1 i fotball!! Det er aldeles utrolig! Vi har slått England! England, kjempers fødeland. Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana--vi har slått dem alle sammen. Vi har slått dem alle sammen. Maggie Thatcher can you hear me?

"Maggie Thatcher, jeg har et budskap til deg midt under valgkampen. Jeg har et budskap til deg: Vi har slått England ut av Verdensmesterskapet i fotball. Maggie Thatcher, som de sier på ditt språk i boksebarene rundt Madison Square Garden i New York: Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!"