Gem - your starter for ten...

History has taught us
That the World Cup’s full of woe;
So no surprise at Owen’s knee
And Rooney’s broken toe.

For doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?
Well....that’s what we all are told.
Yet the glory team of sixty six
Must be seventy plus years old!

Jan Tomaszewski’s Poland team
our boys just couldn’t beat
Jan used his arms, he used his hands,
He even used his feet.

Old Maradonna’s Argentines
We nearly put to bed...
He used his feet - and he used his hand!
(But he didn’t use his head).

Now we have Goran Erickson
To save us from defeat
Though now it seems for thirty years
The Swedes we’ve yet to beat!

So how many teams remain out there
That England dare not face?
Thank God for Ecuador, I say
(At least ‘I hope’, in any case).

Over-paid and under-worked;
That’s sums our players up.
Without a team of nondescripts
We’ll never win this cup!