Sometimes you’re the butt of the joke and sometimes you get to point fingers and laugh. Thankfully, this time around, it’s the rest of the world who are laughing at England’s misfortunes after they became the first host nation eliminated at the group stages of the Rugby World Cup.
Now we know the England press are an unforgiving bunch so let’s first see what some of their headlines looked like courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald:
Of course Twitter was even less forgiving, the meme makers out in full force and delivering some real gems. Below from the Daily Mail:
And then there were the low swinging, sweet chariot jokes that came flooding in, a few here taken from Stuff:
Look England, we took our defeat to Japan on the chin – and there were plenty of jokes coming our way from far and wide. I guess now it’s your turn, although at least you can point out the success of your cricket team at that World Cup earlier this year. Oh, wait…
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