Originally Posted by
Optimistic Nick
Agree.the wheels came off around the 70 Min mark where it became clear that Italy were not going to stick to the script. The build up was embarrassing as it assumed England would win. But awful commentary. Awful. It needed impartiality and detachment and, lets face it, criticism of what was England bottling it as the game went on.
Almost certainly better than matterface tho, although nobody will know as presumably nobody subjected themselves to that very peculiar torture