World Cup Fiver | Even idiots have had to stop referring to them as the hipster team
If history teaches us anything, it is that teams lumbered with the ‘Golden Generation’ tag can usually be expected to indulge in pre-tournament hubris, lose their best player to serious knack before a ball’s been kicked, take a work experience kid along as one of their strikers, forget to put the right people in the right positions, chop and change systems from one match to the next, grind out a couple of miserable wins, stink the place out, lose on penalties and end up praying that a foreigner can take some of the blame. It could be an opposition player, it could be a referee. All that matters is that the poor sod does something nefarious enough to attract heat from $exually Repressed Morris Dancing Fiver, who only usually reaches such levels of anger when someone points out that St George’s Day isn’t a national holiday.
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