It could only be the Daily Mail

[culloty82]

Wouldn't it be great if TV coverage of the World Cup was limited to England's games, those of hosts South Africa and of the tournaments 'big guns'.

Then we would be spared the ordeal of having to sit through a match between Bongo Bongoland and the Former Soviet Republic of Bulimia and other meaningless events.

Mike Phelps
Yeovil, Somerset

Apparently, this isn't a wind-up, can't be long before we hear from Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells.

Needless to say, there's already a Facebook group in response:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123986370972296#!/group.php?gid=123986370972296

[Dodge]

defo real (well as real as letters to newspapers get);
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/06/10/the-daily-mail-and-bongo-bongoland/

[tetsujin1979]

Julie Burchill, one of the "journalists" from the mail had an appalling article in the paper recently about how she wanted the World Cup to not happen, and couldn't wait for England to get knocked out to end some of the behavious she's seeing around her
Read it here if you need a laugh: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1285739/WORLD-CUP-2010l-Sorry-I-wait-England-knocked-out.html

[Sullivinho]

Julie Burchill, one of the "journalists" from the mail had an appalling article in the paper recently about how she wanted the World Cup to not happen, and couldn't wait for England to get knocked out to end some of the behavious she's seeing around her
Read it here if you need a laugh: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1285739/WORLD-CUP-2010l-Sorry-I-wait-England-knocked-out.html

What a miserable fu**in' killjoy. Almost* makes me want to see England win it just to spite her!



* But hey, let's not get crazy now.

[seand]

Or the Daily Heil as it's referred to in some quarters.

[DaveyCakes]

Julie Burchill looking for controversy...there's a surprise!

[bennocelt]

Julie Burchill looking for controversy...there's a surprise!

Remember her joke of a show on chavs a few years ago - "the Beatles, the king of Chavs" - FFS!!!

[superfrank]

The author's name tells me it's a wind-up.

[Ciprian Marica]

What's wrong with his name? Slightly off topic but my blood boiled reading some of the "Reader's Comments" around the Bloody Sunday findings. Some of the people that wrote in were as IGNORANT as one could be.

[Predator]

I think that on reflection, 'Mike Phelps' might be wondering whether he'd like to be 'spared the ordeal' of watching England painfully choke and splutter their way to draws and defeats in, well, almost every World Cup.

For most of the rest of the world, it's a joy to behold.

On a similar note, I flicked to ITV's coverage of the game yesterday for a while and heard Clive Tyldesley talk about Gerrard 'threading through a precise pass that was intercepted'. What's precise about an intercepted pass?

[John83]

On a similar note, I flicked to ITV's coverage of the game yesterday for a while and heard Clive Tyldesley talk about Gerrard 'threading through a precise pass that was intercepted'. What's precise about an intercepted pass?
What's on target about a saved shot?