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Newspaper, 26 June 2014

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Newspaper, 26 June 2014

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At this point, nobody cared what the score was. We didn’t expect anything. The betting market illustrates this. Perhaps, as much due to Costa Rica’s excellent performances as well as England’s exit, England opened the betting at 2/5, finishing as long as 3/4. Cost Rica were as long as 7/1, going in as short as 15/4.

Don’t let anybody tell you England fans weren’t expecting anything from this World Cup.

Newspaper, 20 June 2014

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F***. And there we have it, despair. Typical bloody England. We’re all but out.

Gary Lineker @garylineker 20 June

“The whole low expectation thing didn’t help then. Getting knocked out still feels shit!”

An early England exit from a major tournament is a newspaper’s field day. All that time they’ve spent scraping around for stories has now been rewarded. It’s time to write with purpose. In enters our good friend hindsight.

 England should’ve done this, Gerrard’s not good enough, neither is Sterling, neither is Henderson, and especially Hodgson, he’s the worst of them all, he got the formation totally wrong, bloody foreigners know how to do it better than us, we should’ve got Redknapp, Mourinho, anyone.

 They wrote this with a more pressing deadline, just wait until the next edition where they can finger point more thoroughly.

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This is probably the pinnacle of individual obsession. Wayne Rooney, portrayed as the squad’s pantomime villain and having scored the goal that the media craved, is no longer the focal point. Of course though, it’s Rooney related.

Imagine taking a picture of your mate’s kid crying and then putting it on Facebook. That is what this is like. Arguably encroaching morality, I’d expect much better from one of the more respectable broadsheet newspapers.

The Sun went with a similar picture. But with this headline:

“Don’t cry, Kai. If Italy beat Costa Rica today… then Suarez and co lose to Italy.. and Daddy scores a couple (or maybe more) against Costa Rica… WE’RE THROUGH!”

Despite the omission of a crass headline, the picture speaks for itself (res ipsa loquitur).

@1jacobwalker