The Simon Barnes award for journalistic hyperbole, this week goes to James Lawton of The Independent.
“This is not to devalue the scale of England's triumph in the exquisite Oval ground that was as silent as a mausoleum the morning after the most crushing of defeats, one that has provoked a burst of countrywide introspection so deep it might even be linked to a loss of national identity.”
Countrywide introspection? So deep? Loss of national identity?
Mate, wet your terry toweling hat to soothe that fevered brow. Or try cooling off in an art gallery or concert hall.
What an excitable tosser.
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