Because the players, collectively and as a team, are not fit to wear their shirts. Because to wear that shirt, you eat the grass. To wear that shirt, you feel the glory of Mother Russia, you feel the immenseness of Russia’s steppe, you hear the magnitude of Russia’s music, you sense the greatness and nobility of its tremendous culture which has defeated the most evil hordes history has known at a terrible sacrifice.
To wear that shirt, you raise your head, you raise your game. To wear that shirt, you breathe fire and fury. To wear that shirt, you run, you sweat, you bleed. You give your heart, your soul, your all.
Yesterday Russia’s boys did not eat the grass. They did not feel the weight of their shirt and they did not feel the honour of representing their country, because they were more concerned with not getting injured, playing at half-steam because they give more importance to their clubs than their country. Yesterday was not Russia playing. It was Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal.
There are far, far, far more Russian boys out there who would represent their country with pride and for free. And who would defeat Slovenia over two games any day. Guus Hiddink must be very, very disappointed with them because they neither played with their hearts, nor with their heads.
One can only hope that Hiddink stays and next time fields football players and not the overpaid prima donnas climbing out of their golden Bentleys dripping with gold making a mockery out of the working citizens who pay their absurd wages. If they had an iota of shame in them, they would retire. Now!
Konstantin KARPOV
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