Celebrate World Cup failure with £66 off a British Airways long-haul flight

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• KBuffett says:

  12 Jul12 July 06:31

  It’s BA that are STILLRUBBISH.
  Not the England Football team.

  • Johnny Tabasco jt@nme.com says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:05

    Yep. Very poor choice of words.

    This group of young sportsmen deserve so much better. They gave the country some hope when t needed it most and played way above expectations.

    Poor show. Though I think it’s simply a lack of understanding of the sport and what they have done.

    • Rob says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:17

      They didn’t. They beat everyone above them in the world rankings which is exactly what should have been expected.

      • Wivus says:

        12 Jul12 July 08:49

        Above them?

• Volker says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:02

  Clearly yet another topic Britain is divided on…

  • Callum says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:20

    If you ignore the people who hate England because it’s England, I don’t think there’s much division in this regard!

    While I don’t expect people uninterested in football to care, making disparaging remarks about a group of people who put in tonnes of effort (far more than it takes to write a blog post…) and brought joy to millions of people all for no monetary gain (yes I know the amounts they receive from their clubs more than makes up for that!) is uncalled for and spiteful.

    • Peter K says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:13

      Players do get paid for intentional matches. Most donate it to charity though because they earn so much anyway they do not need it.

      • Callum says:

        12 Jul12 July 08:28

        They all donate 100% of it to charity as far as I knew?

      • Sussex Bantam says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:15

        The England team have all donated their match fees to charity for many, many years. Although I would agree this isn’t exactly a measure of their altruism gven their other income !

• Andrew says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:18

  And on the HFP home page the strikeout doesn’t show so it says to enter promo code STILLRUBBISH STILLPROUD – which even BA might take offence to as it suggests that the promo code they are using. Only when clicking on the full article does it show the strikeout.

• Chuckstar says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:19

  STILLRUBBISH … Rob, that is pathetic.

• Sussex bantam says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:24

  Rob – one team wins the World Cup. Literally every other team in the world loses. To describe those as ‘rubbish’ is pathetic. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the sport and whilst I understand you might not care very much some of us really do. You should change this and apologise

  • the real harry1 says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:43

    yep let’s make Raffles take the blame for being personally responsible for England getting booted out of the World Cup, we’ve been looking for a scapegoat since last night and now somebody’s volunteered! 🙂

    • Sussex Bantam says:

      12 Jul12 July 07:58

      I’m not looking for a scapegoat. I thought we did great and far ahead of expectations. We should celebrate that not take the mickey. Not even the tabloids are looking for a scapegoat this morning.

  • JayG says:

    12 Jul12 July 07:55

    Really! Why are people like this. Apologise, why, because you don’t agree or didn’t like the comment or and have a different view. Pathetic.

    • Sussex Bantam says:

      12 Jul12 July 07:59

      Why feel the need to insult our sports team after their most successful tournament in 28 years ?

    • Callum says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:35

      It has nothing to do with “not liking” a comment. Its an insult and incredibly rude. Rob is normally perfectly pleasant (except the odd occasion when some snobbery shows through!) which makes it all the more jarring.

      Look at the reaction the “in crowd” here give if anyone dare says anything even slightly uncomplimentary about the site or Rob… If you insult something people care about then you irritate or annoy them.

  • Rob says:

    12 Jul12 July 08:16

    When you’re my age you will take it less seriously ….. very unlikely I will live long enough to see England win a World Cup, I accepted that when I hit 40 🙂

    • Sussex bantam says:

      12 Jul12 July 08:49

      I’m exactly the same age as you Rob and support Bradford city. I long ago realised it was very unlikely that either of my teams would win anything.

      In some ways that makes this tournament even more of a success. We performed well, played with pride, won and lost with dignity. For a while we gave the country a chance to dream until the reality of a decent Croatia side with a couple of world class players hit home

      Branded that as a ‘failure’ and ‘runnish’ is pretty unfair

      • Rob says:

        12 Jul12 July 08:53

        I agree with your sentiments but the idea that beating Panama and scraping past Colombia is somehow up there with the 1978 Dutch team for example …..

      • Sussex Bantam says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:17

        I know the media (and the country) got excitied but I’m not sure anyone was comparing Jesse Lingard with Johan Cryuff…

      • Dougie Forde says:

        12 Jul12 July 09:33

        The 1978 Dutch team that Scotland beat (and no-one else beat over 90 minutes)

• Tilly71 says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:28

  STILLRUBBISH – thought this was BA’s new slogan! ????

• Mike says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:37

  Its only a game !

• Nick G says:

  12 Jul12 July 07:40

  Maybe rob is referring to BA not the England team

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