Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
One minute England were 1-0 up after about an hour and the next it's 1.00 am and I'm wide awake. All I can say is that, far from being the "nerve shredding drama" as described on the BBC website I just read, England and Colombia sent me to sleep - people are saying this is the best World Cup ever, well July 3 wasn't one of it's best days, with the mechanical Swedes boring their way past a nondescript Swiss side and the first hour of England and Colombia having little to appeal to a neutral.
Of course, I can't be a neutral while I have the commentary turned up on any England game, because the likes of Tyldesley and Hoddle just drive me naturally into the other team's camp (although, what I saw of Colombia had me wishing that England could, somehow, lose without them winning). I'm watching England with the sound turned down from now on, but then I suppose that makes it easier for them to send me to sleep again!