The Backlash Against England Flops Begins

Today the Daily Mail and Sun both reveal that Wayne Rooney booked a holiday to Barbados two days before England were knocked out of the World Cup by Germany.

I'm prepared to give Rooney the benefit of the doubt (after all he can afford the cancellation fee) but the timing of this holiday doesn't demonstrate much ambition or belief on his part, and many fans will begrudge him the holiday at his £5M Barbados mansion that is beyond most of our wildest dreams.

I am reminded of the quote from BBC Radio 5 Live's Alan Green that I published a couple of days ago:

"I hope the players are embarrassed and slink away in misery. And in economy class. But I fear they'll just jet off to Barbados, and it will all be a vague memory to them in a few weeks - unless the English public remind them. They should be booed onto the pitch at the friendly against Hungary in August."

Rooney's lack of tact is nothing compared to what the Sun and Mail are reporting that Ashley Cole has done. For this Ashley Cole should never again don an England shirt.

Ashley Cole launched a foul-mouthed rant about England and its 'people' days before flying out to the World Cup to play football for his country.

The message - which read 'I hate England and the f***ing people - was sent to friends from the Chelsea defender's Blackberry shortly before he boarded a flight to England's pre-World Cup training camp in Austria.

The 29-year-old posted it as his status message - alongside a picture of him sunbathing topless - allowing all those designated as his friends to see it.

Now I accept that the Sun and Mail aren't always the most reputable of journals, but if this is true then - as a Chelsea supporter - I don't even want this maggot of a man in a Chelsea shirt bearing one lion, let alone an England shirt bearing three.