I have been given seven different newspaper articles to analyse. All the articles are from the weekend after the Friday's disappointing 2-1 defeat against Brazil.

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                 English Coursework                       Media Assignment                Scott Pearce 10A

I have been given seven different newspaper articles to analyse. All the articles are from the weekend after the Friday’s disappointing 2-1 defeat against Brazil. They are also about England’s success in the World Cup 2002. I have to write and explain about how the writers puts across the message to the readers.

The first article I read was out of The Sun and was written by a reporter named Martin Phillips. The reporter puts across the message that English football has been reborn. He writes about how the Japanese were expecting violence and hooliganism but instead they got confident and passionate fans that were there for the beauty of football.

The headline “Has this World Cup seen the rebirth of England?” is telling the readers that it is now safe to fly the St.George flag with pride, without people complaining about racism. I think there has been a big change in the English supporters, as at every World Cup they always choose someone to blame. This time David Beckham told the fans that “Seaman is not to blame” and the English fans didn’t blame him, instead they stood proud of what our team have done.

Next I moved on to the Leaders comment written by the editor of The Sun. This was all based on English pride. It starts off by saying how fans have changed towards Sven Goran Eriksson from thinking he would get us nowhere to loving him for the success he had with England. It ends on a confident note by saying how we will win Euro 2004.

The next article I read was taken from The Star and was written by a reporter named Tony Leonard. This article is about the feelings and emotions of the royal family and Tony Blair. The reporter puts across the message that everyone was watching the match, even the Royals. It quotes that the Queen was said to be “sharing the nation’s disappointment”. As well as Prince William, who was celebrating he’s 20th birthday, Prince Harry who’s an Arsenal fan, felt bad for gooner David Seaman.

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This articles also shows Tony Blair’s thoughts as he “took time out from the EU summit in Seville, Spain to make a five minute phone call” He phoned Sven personally congratulating him on his success with England. This tells everyone that no matter what happens everyone is still proud.

It also says that “a million kettles were switched on at half time” just short of England’s 1990 defeat against Germany. This also proves that everyone was watching the game, with pride of course apart from Sir Bobby Robson who said “the players just didn’t perform.

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