Footy silver linings

• McClaren is gone. Thi-i-i-i-ings can only get better.
• Angry bigoted hooligans looking for extra scapegoats can’t possibly blame the Jews.
• We’re still better than Andorra!
• The Scots didn’t qualify either, after their humiliating defeat by, er, Italy.
• We won’t be subjected to weeks of painfully tenuously football-themed ads on TV next summer.
• We won’t have to watch David ‘I’m An Ordinary Bloke’ Cameron and Gordon ‘I Love Ingerland’ Brown trying to out-fan each other.
• We’ll be able to go to a pub on a Saturday afternoon and actually have a conversation.