Shock! Horror!

So, nil-nil after ninety minutes, nil-nil after extra time; is anyone seriously surprised that England are out of the World Cup after a penalty shootout? Was there really any liklihood that England's World Cup campaign would end any differently? It happens every time, every time, and ever it shall be thus.

Still, far be it for me to point and laugh at my fellow football-obssessed countrymen who must be at this moment wailing like banshees, their England shirts drenched with a cascade of tears, as their pitiful dream of World Cup glory is once again utterly (and predictably) demolished.

I'm bigger than that. Really I am.