Monday night’s 2-1 defeat by Iceland will go down as one of the sunless days in the history of the English national team.
And so it has demonstrated again, possibly understandably, as a country best appreciated for its volcanos and Vikings in Iceland has given the latest pitiful defeat.
As one English commentator said it at the end of the match, “anyone in the England camp this night correlated with that should hang his head in embarrassment. That was a mess. That was English”.
England is now out of Euro 2016, managerless and, like the country on the whole, in a position of darkness and shock. And Twitter has delivered.
And while drinking in the malicious joy of it all, even the ‘Crazy Icelandic Commentator’ has turned up for a profound sequence.
Roy Hodgson stood down in the critical outcome of defeat in Nice, a lack which is arguably the nation’s critical ever.
England being dropped out of a major international tournament without creating a real impression is nothing new, and as ever the Three Lions’ exit provoke a comprehensive mixture of despair and malicious joy.
Here is how Twitter reacted on a nerve-racking night for England:-
My petition to have the game replayed: pic.twitter.com/YSBJHk3MlY
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 27, 2016
The worst defeat in our history. England beaten by a country with more volcanoes than professional footballers. Well played Iceland.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) June 27, 2016
Oh we are getting Glenn Hoddle’s reaction now. Next up the reaction of a paving stone in Blackpool.
— Danny Baker (@prodnose) June 27, 2016
Joe hart is like a cat flap
— paul linwood (@lindog83) June 27, 2016
It’s times like this that Twitter is actually amusing…or maybe I’ve just been really bored all evening!!!
— AP McCoy (@AP_McCoy) June 27, 2016
Fans in Reykjavik react to the second Iceland goal against England https://t.co/VJjryVCjM9 pic.twitter.com/ZnSp6REWCv
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) June 28, 2016
The worst defeat in our history. England beaten by a country with more volcanoes than professional footballers. Well played Iceland.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) June 27, 2016
“You can leave Europe! You can go wherever the hell you want!”
Icelandic commentator after win. Voice of #Euro2016 pic.twitter.com/7EaLD3kV3t
— Gissur Simonarson CN (@GissiSim) June 27, 2016
Hodgson, the only man in England with a coherent plan for leaving Europe.
— Christian Bennett (@christianobeno) June 27, 2016
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