Pitch Invasion

And so it ended, with Steve McClaren standing inane and inert underneath what Simon Barnes aptly called an “enormous and comic umbrella”. It will symbolise his failure, just as a turnip did for Graham Taylor.
As Dave Warner satirically put it, “The Croatian victory, which effectively eliminated England from qualifying for the EURO 2008 Championship, [...]

The Booing of Frank Lampard is, according to Reuters Soccer Blog (generally a great blog, by the way), a reflection of the worst of English culture over the past several hundred years. Mr. Frank Lampard, the Victim, has been randomly selected by England fans to be the subject of bizarre and unjustified criticism.
The case against [...]