The Colchester United season has drawn to a close with a dull disappointing thud but for those of you with nerves of steel and an insatiable appetite for disappointment we’ve still got the World Cup to look forward to!
Before I tell you about the World Cup warm up event at the Colchester Arts Centre on 10 June can I set you a challenge? What links have our Mighty Us got with the greatest sporting competition on earth. With a little help from Laitty’s excellent website I have come up with the following:
- Teddy Sheringham played 51 times for England appearing at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups although perhaps he was past his peak when he joined our boys on the field.
- Richard Garcia played for Australia in the 2014 World Cup. Embracing the traditions of his England hosts close to his heart his national team were hammered by Germany.
- Matthew Briggs would have played for Guyana in a World Cup Qualifier in 2015 but he couldn’t get his passport sorted out.
- Bongani Khumalo (he was only with us in the Spring of 2015) represented South Africa in the 2010 World Cup scoring a winner against no less than France!
- Dean Morgan played for Montserrat in a 2015 World Cup qualifier.
- Ian Stewart who played for the Us in the early 1990s represented Ireland in the 1986 World Cup Finals.
- Most shocking of all is the continuing role of Aidy “Hoofroyd” in the England set up as the England U21 Manager. Just take that in slowly the man who produced the most embarrassing and awful Us football ever to be seen at the Community Stadium is part of the England set up!
Hopefully with all these glorious Col U World Cup links I have wet your appetites and you will be desperate to join our World Cup Warm up at the Colchester Arts Centre on the 10th June.
WHY ENGLAND LOSE?
COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE
Sunday 10th June 2018
Tickets £8 / £5 concessions.
Doors open 7pm, show starts 7.30pm.
Tickets from the Arts Centre or http://www.colchesterartscentre.com
With days to go before the football World Cup, England fans will be full of hope. After 52 years of hurt could football be coming home? The answer, of course, is no. With very little hope in their hearts local football fans Anthony Clavane and Bryn Griffiths aka @ColUBryn — and football writer Carrie Dunn - ask you to join them to grapple with the painful question: “Why do England lose?”.
Wear your football shirt of choice and join us to discuss England’s prospects. Expect singing of England football songs, film clips of those terrible England moments, World Cup images, Subbuteo penalty shoot outs and poetry.
Anthony Clavane was a Sunday Mirror football writer in the press pack for four World Cups so he knows what he’s talking about.
Carrie Dunn wrote The Roar of the Lionesses which chronicled women's football in England following the national team's bronze medal at the 2015 Women's World Cup. During the 2014 men’s World Cup, she blogged for Kick It Out, the anti-discrimination organisation.
Cultural anthropologist Charlie Davison is our musical director and Mike Harwood, the Il Presidente of Poetry Wivenhoe, will lead the England poetry slam.
If we have wet your appetite and you want a pre show taster click here for our preview on Colne Radio
https://www.mixcloud.com/Box39/power-listen-bryn-remembers-italia-90/
See you there maybe we will win it this time! |  |
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