Boo when we're winning?
England football fans didn't read the media's script at Wembley last night, suggests Dougal Paver.
Like pantomime villains England's finest lined up in the Wembley tunnel yesterday, anticipating the boos and cat-calls of an audience said to be "outraged" at their recent performance on the South African stage.
"They'll be booing them from the rafters," claimed (nay, exhorted) an expectant media.
"Oh no we won't!" retorted the rather polite family audience.
The script, then, didn't quite go to the media's plan and even Clive Tyldsley, ITV's urbane match summariser, was moved to comment on how the public chose not to rise to the tabloids' bait.
I suspect the FA's family pricing policy, which drew in thousands of youngsters on a Dad 'n' Lad package, had summat to do with it.
Nice middle class families just don't indulge in such vulgar antics. "Rooney, Rooney, Ra, Ra, Ra!" would be more like it, I suspect.
Either way, it was interesting to see that the British public is still capable of deciding for itself whether or not it wants to get in to a good old fashioned tizz. Maybe the media's power isn't as great as we thought?
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