As disappointed as Darwin?

for better or verse
(Prior to Portugal’s victory over England in the World Cup quarter final, critics had warned coach Eriksson that he needed to solve a tactical problem and find the 'missing link”)

Eriksson, you must be a very dejected man
Something went wrong with your game plan
When England played the truth began to sink
In your mind - your plan lacked the “missing link”
With Beckham indisposed, disabled Owen out
And Rooney red carded there arose the doubt
You could not win with a plan so incomplete
(Though it was the penalties that caused the defeat!)
Eriksson erase this loss from your mind
Even Darwin the “missing link” could not find
So to self-recrimination you must not yield
This was not Galapagos, only a football field!
 
- Leonora