God Save the Queen

I can't believe England was just knocked out of the World Cup. I was skeptical of the English team and I'll admit I wasn't really ready to root hard for them at all. So it took a lot for me as a fierce Irish guy to root hard for England. But England deserved to win this game. I never really got to see any of their other games in the World Cup, but I got to see this one and I saw a great team.
England is definately the team that Americans can pull for. They don't take dives at every oppurtunity like all the other teams - a reason many people say they don't like soccer. They play hard, they have very lively fans, and they have some great superstars. Should that have played a little more aggresive today and worked towards the goal more, yes definately. But Wayne Rooney being red carded out the match was one the worst instant red cards I have ever seen. There was no reason for a red card there. Did the ref realize that he was taking their best offensive player out of the game for accidental step in a rough challenge involving three players or maybe he took him out for a light shove against the best player on the Portugese team. The stepping incident was a foul, but not a card, not a card at all. The push was immature but I liked, he did deserve a yellow for that. I think the ref gave him the red for the push.

Now for the next game I don't really like the French and its not like anyone can root for Brazil, they don't need it and who can root for the favorite. So I'm just looking forward to Brazil winning and Thierry Henry scoring a bunch of goals and making some great players and making a great game out of it.