A Few Words for the England Team

It hasn’t been easy to be an England supporter over the last, say, 40 years. Frustration is always there, from Stuart Pearce’s missed penalty, to heartbreak in the World Cup semi-final in 1990 (against Germany, of all teams!), to Ronaldinho’s goal in 2002, and missing Euro 2008 entirely. Managers have come and gone. There was the Sven experiment (which went about as well as trying to assemble Ikea furniture with a pencil), the woeful Steve McLaren period (which ended with his standing on the touchline with an umbrella), and now the Fabio Capello tenure (the jury is still out on that one).

But comedian James Corden has summed up the agony and the ecstasy of cheering on the Three Lions and, with the help of a few good sports on the team, produced this fabulous skit for Comic Relief. In the space of nine minutes, he's told the England team everything that 40 million fans have been dying to say in one of the greatest team talks this side of Henry V.