Sunday, 5. September 2004

James's latest mistake causes England to let another lead slip


Just as David James thought he was watching a goalkeeper even more calamitous than his old blunder-riddled persona, an dreadful attack of the butterfingers cost England two points in Vienna. In the opposite goal, Alex Manninger, the ex-Arsenal goalkeeper who was known for a neurotic intensity which made Woody Allen look calm, had contrived to help England into a lead which was doubled by Steven Gerrard's wonderful strike.

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