The Football Cup 2010

Here is an excerpt from the final chapter of "The Football Cup 2010. A look back from 2042" by Sir Wayne Rooney, who as we all know underwent the first brain enhancement in 2027 increasing his overall intelligence by 50%, thus allowing him to to obtain his Class 3 History degree in 2030.

"...and at 90 minutes the football had been won! The victors had won a big gold chalice of football pride; the losers, an even bigger cup filled with pure shame. The burden of the second place cup of shame weighed them down, and their country, for years to come. The crushing defeat wounded them so deeply they started rolling around on the floor clutching various body parts except their chests, where the pain in their hearts, must surely have be the strongest of them all.

The victors celebrated by running around the field and performing ever increasingly complex feats of acrobatics. After seeing the losers writhing around on the floor, they immediately appealed to the ref, who awarded a penalty for every team member on the floor and booked the whole of the losing team, filling them with yet more shame and dishonour, whilst the victors gained yet more goals and pride. Of course this did not go over well with the losers' manager, who upon seeing the red cards immediately started shouting and balling. Many fans had the same reaction, but most were too full of shame and remained silent.

As both teams started to leave the pitch; the losers limping and the victors prancing; the marching vuvuzela band were playing, which some say was formed in the fires of hell out of the worst musicians in history; their tuneless dirge echoing around the stadium. Unfortunately this cannot be confirmed as many of the records were destroyed by the various puppet masters controlling the football leaders.

In the following days, weeks and months there were many inquiries, inquests and injunctions around the outcome of this football match; which has now cost the world football consortium of football, but mostly various tax payers around the world, billions of dollars. There are still some legal battles going on to this day.

This match will go down in History as the flashpoint that started the downward spiral of the game of football. Eventually causing it to be banned in most parts of the world, thus driving this once great game underground to illegal 'football dens'. These dens were the beginnings of the football wars that..."

Gripping stuff I think you'll agree.