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This IS brilliant: "Ok, so I know the fashionable thing for us journalists is to overreact to what we see..."
That's the kick-off, by Mike Adamson in Guardian's World Cup blog. He carries on well into the opening minutes: "...and thus assume Argentina are certain to win the World Cup - having probably overcome the mighty Spain in the final - and that England are going to crash out in ignominy sooner rather than later after a good walloping by a team "we should be beating". But can we try and keep a bit of perspective here please - we're only 10 days into the tournament for crying out loud."
Guess we journalists need to take a leaf or three from that; cut the crap and hit the deck, as they say in cricket lingo.

By the way here's the whole, and nothing but the whole, link:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/worldcup06/2006/06/19/in_defence_of_england.html

The blog's quite good, just by the way.