Now that I am no longer living in the cauldron of T.V - slash - Radio - slash - Tabloid Journalism - slash - Media over-hype that is the British footballing world I actually don’t mind the England football team. Now-a-days all I get are the goal highlights, and of late with England racking up the goals I only get a selection of the best in a 30 second clip. You know, I can live with that right now — it is as much England as a non-Englishman needs and it actually allows you to like the team for the players and not hate them for everything that surrounds them.

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What can I say, it is definitely me. Or at least I was beginning to think it was up until yesterday evening when the Blue Jay’s finally lost a game snapping a ten-game winning streak. The winning streak stretched all the way back to August 31 when I arrived in the country and having been here and watching most of the games in the evening through the winning streak I was beginning to believe I had brought the team some good vibes. I wasn’t quite sure where from because it certainly wasn’t from supporting Liverpool back at home, but none-the less I was here and an average Blue Jay’s team were now invincible.

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