Beaten Argentinians return home as heroes

[Lady Whistledown]

Maradona's team are greeted by 15,000 flag waving Argentinians on their return to Buenos Aires after being thrashed by Germany. And here I was imagining they'd be pelted with rotten veg and booed out of town.

This kind of reception would never happen to England after a 4-0 defeat, even by some miracle if we'd made the quarter finals

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[The Wizard]

What the f***?

 

[BeepBeepImaJeep]

damn I was looking forward to seeing the fans set their plane on fire. this has got to be some kindof mistake.

did they bring back a fake Cup and tell everybody they won?

 

[patchamalbion]

il second that 'what the f***':US: holding your baby up to the moving coach so the poor sod can look into the eyes of the players who have let down the country

 

[Willow]

They flew home economy class, apparently, the first flight they could get. There were only 40 random spare seats available so they scattered the squad througout the cabin. Very humbling.

 

[Marc]

could be a publicity stunt!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

A few of the players seem to be pleasantly surprised. A few of the others- Messi, Mascherano in particular- look rather more embarrassed or ashamed.

If our fans had turned out like this you could imagine John Terry would be leaning out the sunroof smoking a fat cigar

 

[Durlston]

damn I was looking forward to seeing the fans set their plane on fire. this has got to be some kindof mistake.

did they bring back a fake Cup and tell everybody they won?

The fake Cup from Colombia was passed round to the crowd by the looks of it.

 

[vegster]

"you can fool some of the people some of the time, but, you can't......" obviously, Argentinians don't count

 

[Sheebo]

It's called being PROUD of your country and who you are...

 

[BadFish]

They played some great football in the world cup, they have every right to be proud.

If England played football like them and got knocked out in the quarters I would be delighted!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It's called being PROUD of your country and who you are...

Well they may have lost but at least their attacking SKILLS and FLAIR manager gave them a few things to be proud of.

Whereas England...our defence was shocking, our midfield anonymous, our forward line a waste of space, and don't even get me started on the goalkeeper. I'm struggling to find anything to be proud of there.

 

[Taybha]

Meanwhile the paraguay back four try out their new kit

 

[twickers]

Maradona's team are greeted by 15,000 flag waving Argentinians on their return to Buenos Aires after being thrashed by Germany. And here I was imagining they'd be pelted with rotten veg and booed out of town.

This kind of reception would never happen to England after a 4-0 defeat, even by some miracle if we'd made the quarter finals

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Argentina actually played football in the World Cup. They were well and truly owned by Germany, but none the less they have no reason to go home shrouded in shame. England on the other hand...

 

[twickers]

They played some great football in the world cup, they have every right to be proud.

If England played football like them and got knocked out in the quarters I would be delighted!

Sorry, just spotted this post. I agree.

 

[Cecil]

It's called being PROUD of your country and who you are...

As said by others they did actually play well in the games before the Germany game.

The same can not be said of us.

 

[Icy Gull]

They played some great football in the world cup, they have every right to be proud.

If England played football like them and got knocked out in the quarters I would be delighted!

Exactly, there was a world of difference between the attitude and spirit of the wankers who represented England and the way Argentina played. They played some good football and gave their fans something to cheer, England were dire from the 1st kick of the ball to the tail between the legs exit

They should be cheered, in the same way as our players should be jeered.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

That's our problem though we either hold the team is a position that is unacheiveable or unsustainable to they are the lowest of the low.

We need to accept that our system is wrong, this is what makes them the people they are.

Start looking at The Championship for the England players, get the best of English players playing the traditional English way and attract the true English players to this league letting the overly paid and commercialised Premiershite do there bit but if you want to play for England you get to the Championship ... NOT as crazy as it sounds or is it?

Tim

 

[Sheebo]

Well they may have lost but at least their attacking SKILLS and FLAIR manager gave them a few things to be proud of.

Whereas England...our defence was shocking, our midfield anonymous, our forward line a waste of space, and don't even get me started on the goalkeeper. I'm struggling to find anything to be proud of there.

Again you're missing the point completely. I wasn't talking about the 2010 WC, I was talking about the mentality of some people and lack of patriotic people these days. I'm always proud of my country.

 

[Sheebo]

As said by others they did actually play well in the games before the Germany game.

The same can not be said of us.

But we drew 2-2 with Germany and Germany beat the argies 4-0