It's all over now - What did we think about it?

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Name: Daniel W.O. Mfon                Form: 10E

It’s All Over Now

What Did We Think About It?

For The Past Five Weeks the world has been permeate by The ‘Great’ World Cup. The World Cup is probably the most prevalent global event today. It’s an event of precision, skill, talent, desire and passion. It’s a joyful event for both fans and competitors but sometimes violence rears it’s ugly head due to desired victory for your countries team.

During the World Cup Period there has also been a sub era that was just as strong if not stronger and that was that of ‘Sven’s Men’. Yes, The England side. the exact side that was in doubt of making it into the tournament let alone making it out of ‘The Group of Death’ Which also featured the likes of Nigeria, Argentina and Sweden. But ‘The Lions’ Did it, even beating Denmark three goals to nil. With most of the favoured teams to win the tournament out, England were without a doubt one of the favourites. Two Games away from the Final, and three from the World Cup – Could England defeat Brazil?

I have accumulated about seven different articles each talking about England’s World Cup Campaign, it’s my assignment to analyse and compare them. I am looking into the media’s coverage on England’s World Cup Endeavour.

Has This World Cup Seen The Re-Birth Of England?

Was the name of an article presented in the Sun written by Martin Phillips. The article reflects on not the performance of England’s Football Team on the pitch but on the acquiescent behaviour both the players and their supporters showed throughout England’s World Cup. The Name of the article also shows this.

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“Cross of St George has been reclaimed”

Is a quote taken from the article, It’s a line used by the reporter expressing the gratification; The Pride of being able to wave the Country colours around with no shame at all. Shame that was brought to the country by ‘racist bigots’ referred to by the reporter was all diminished by the newly found maturity coming from England as a whole. This article is not talking about England’s performance but talking about how well the country reacted to Brazil knocking England out. Instead of the usual bitterness we all expected ...

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