Hopes dashed AGAIN!

Well, that's the World Cup over for us... on penalties... It's deja vu all over again. Excuse me while I go and eat all the junk food in the house, wipe away my tears (ish) and get a bit drunk.

It's also the only excuse for manly men to cry for another couple of years until the next Euro thingymajig. So feel liberated men of England, and cry like babies as much as you like.

But only until tomorrow.

Then you must regain composure, remove the flags from your car windows and settle back into normal life. Do some DIY, have a BBQ... at least the lush sunny weather will ease the pain a little. Maybe.

And let's not go through the 'blame so and so' train of tabloid anger that we usually do. We played badly. We had a great team. But they played badly. Lampard was bad, Beckham wasn't great and Rooney did something he'll regret. It's over. Bring on the World Cup in 2010... we'll win that for sure. No Sven to make stupid decisions about formation and who to play. And Lennon will be even better than he is now!

COME ON ENGLAND 2010!!!