England World Cup Warm Up Match #1

England 3 - 1 Mexico @ Wembley Stadium, London, England.

If Peter Crouch was scolded by Fabio for wearing slippers in that Austrian Hotel, you can tell how big a Taskmaster he is. Mexico are no mugs, unless Sven is in charge of course! Been there and done that, my condolonses to Ivory Coast.
ITVhd and Peruvian beer again, and I can guess that the only thing bigger than the smug smile of Adrian Chiles is his paycheque. No amount of money could tear me away from the lovely legs of Christine Bleakley. Mmmmmmmm nice.

Not much mention of the pitch during the game but plenty beforehand. I put it down to building the wrong design of stadium in the wrong geographical place. You might have thought bells would have started to ring, when they had to replace the red seats with a different kind of red seat, BEFORE the thing had opened in the first place. This thing called the Sun had been shining and pink became the new red.

Ten minutes into the coverage and Bittersweet Symphony is already niggling away and wanting me to reach for the mute button, as if Andy Townsend and Gareth Southgate weren't bad enough! Sky Sports News in the post season isn't even that tedious.

Well done to Wembley for the England T-shirts flag thingy. Quite corny, but it worked and even the Corporates joined in, so why was it that we were playing with corner flags emblazaned with a Wembley logo and not the National flag? Get it sorted FA. World Cup 2018 my arse!
Another well done to the England fans for staying quiet during the Mexican Anthem, a big thumbs down to Milner, King and Rooney for not even making the effort to move their lips to sing their National Anthem. Any player who can't be arsed to sing it, should be dropped. Its not as if its that hard to learn the bloomin words.

We also had what looked like a Japanese Teenager as a Ref, who got away with wearing the same colour shirt as the England Keeper. Lets hope he doesn't get a Brazilian game in South Africa! He had quite a good game actually and lets hope thats the quality we will see over the next few weeks. Martin Atkinson seems to be clocking up the Air Miles and likes seeing himself get a game as 4th Official as much as possible. I would rather continue to see him hold the subs board in the air though, as opposed to see him in the middle with a whistle in his mouth.

Now onto the game. lol. Young Theo started off gliding down the wing like a porpoise in a Scottish Loch, but then his nemesis took over and his final ball let him down. The whole team played rather too deep and rather worringly indicated an intention to play on the counter-attack. Carrick looked worried and I didn't even know Leighton Baines was playing until he forgot to clear Franco's goaline misskick.
King and Crouch scored after the Mexican's forgot to defend and Johnson scored with his wrong foot. Peter Drury's over enthusiastic commentary left a lot to be desired and made the game more exciting than it actually was.

A good win against a decent team, who will probably get no further than the Second Round. I have learned nothing from that game and the four Chelsea lads who were rested after playing 12 days ago, will have to play 3 games in that same time period in South Africa. Fabio knows what he is doing though doesn't he?