Lycra Over Your Sloggis

Our England Football Team seems, at last, to be discovering how to play football. Yesterday, they defeated Croatia 5 - 1, giving them a 100% track record in all their 8 qualifiers so fare for the World Cup. They can lose their last two matches and still end up at the top of the table. This is an extraordinary achievement; all too often we are struggling at the end.
It may be that their improved performance is down to keeping warm. More and more of our footballers are wearing Lycra bike shorts under their home and away football shorts and I assume that under these they will be wearing their Sloggi pants as well. The style of these pants is quite comprehensive - there is not much risk of anything slipping out - so what is it about all these layers of pants? Are they afraid of being interfered with? Or are they just, as I thought, feeling the cold. Perhaps they spend too much time standing about. It often seem like that when they are playing the more excitable teams from South America.
Football shorts have, for starters, gone back to the all enclosing Sanders of the River designs of the 1950s and yet they need all this stuff underneath. Back in the eighties, players wore much briefer stuff - see Gary Lineker [above] - and I don't remember them wearing double underpants. Of course there was no Lycra then. In these days when footballers have such glamorous images I would have expected them to have wanted to show off their legs. Or perhaps it is the higher profile now given to rugby, where the players have rather better legs to show off and the footballers may be feeling the pressure.
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