World Cup - and Englands sporting demise

Well, it's all over - the World Cup has been won by Italy and whilst it's a shame England weren't playing in the final it's been a good spectacle. Zidane's head-butt will, I think cast a black cloud over the event for some time to come as will Rooney's stamp and Ronaldo's (Christiano) cheating.

FIFA must take action against players diving as it's getting ridiculous now. It's always been part of the game but some teams seem to be taking it to extremes.

As for English sport, man it's bad. Just over 6 months since we were on a high now our sports are in the doldrums.

Cricket - what happened? Admitedly we have had lots of injuries but even so, the high of winning the Ashes has gone and I fully expect normal service to resume in the winter with a drubbing by the Aussies.

Rugby - what can i say? We have the players but the management isn't so great and there just seems to be no will to win anymore. Johnny being injured hasn't helped but there are other players who should be able to step into the role.

Football - I was an Eriksson supporter early on but now he's gone i think he was not so great. Our players should have been brilliant, on paper most of the team could play for any side in the world. Again we were struck by injury and again there seemed to be no will to win. Hopefully McLaren can get them to play together properly but i'm not convinced - Scolari would be better, maybe in the future.