Sven's Ogg Monster in Need of Good Day at Office
Evening Standard - London › June 05, 2006
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AND SO, with less than a week to go, a sense of uncontainable optimism exerts its familiar grip. It's like this before every big tournament, of course, but thanks to the human mind's genius for eradicating all memory of pain - that miraculous trick which enables women to face childbirth a second time - and with a nudge from that facile demolition of Jamaica, hope rages unchecked in the English breast.
I had a delirious hour on the phone with my cousin yesterday poring over the fixtures, working out the path to the semi-finals and comparing this squad with the weaker one of 2002, until we came to the inevitable conclusion. With or without Wayne Rooney (and surely it will be with), there is no one to fear.See the full content of this document
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Sven's Ogg Monster in Need of Good Day at Office
Admittedly, we then shared a reverie about Ronaldinho and an unseasonal fork of Teuton lightning, but I like to think we were being satirical about that.
The only thing that bothered us, in fact, was the perplexing creature who has become regarded, in the wake of Saturday's hat- trick, as the s...See the full content of this document
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