KKTV - Blogs - Blog with Don  World Cupdate (Don Ward)  By: Don
Ward  Some thoughts on what's happened so far.  Lots Of Drama In
South Africa  Why can't the English.......?   In the old show
"My Fair Lady" that song goes,"Why can't the English teach their
children how to speak."  It's all about taking someone a bit
rough and cleaning them up, making them more presentable and
polite.  Team England at the World Cup needs to do just the
opposite.  This team of perennial potential, and chronic
underperformance needs its stars to stop being so nice to one
another. A player gets the ball into the opposing penalty area
and then seems to say to a teammate, "Oh please, after you" then
passes the ball.  "No you first!" might as well be the reply, as
they overpass themselves right out of the scoring opportunity.
Shoot the bloomin' ball!  Blimey!  Goal scorers shoot, they
don't try to avoid being the guy who missed the opportunity by
passing it off to someone else.  Put Wayne Rooney in a
Manchester United jersey and he c