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07-04-2006 10:35


Justin Chancellor, bassist of Tool

For ten years, this great football enthusiast was a member of Peach, a rock group which he founded with his school-mates at the age of 14. In 1995, when Paul D’Amour left the group Tool, Justin was called into the American band to replace him. These days, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife Shelee.

Read Justin Chancellor's column on the England-Ecuador clash in the Round of 16

I watched it in an Irish pub in Copenhagen. We are playing at a festival called Roskilde tonight. I was with a bunch of English people. I’m gutted. It’s almost like déjà vu. I’ve seen it happen time and time before. I felt like my whole life was flashing before my eyes. I’ve all these memories of seeing England lose on a penalty shootout. It’s a bit tragic really, but c’est la vie.

It’s over. Now I don’t have to worry about it anymore. I was pretty upset, but I’m alright now. Every time, we seem to be cursed when it comes to a penalty shootout. We can never figure it out, how to do that, and other teams seem to be much more confident with it.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo at the end; he kissed the ball and had this little swagger to him. I think you need to be a little bit cocky and confident when it comes to penalties, and we were just scared and bottled it. It’s rough losing in exactly the same way – to Portugal as well – because this happened two years ago in the European Championship. They’ve must be chuckling to themselves right now.

If Rooney hadn’t have pushed Ronaldo, I don’t think he would have given him a red card, because it looked somewhat of an accident when he stood on (Carvalho).

He’s just a kid and he’s got a really bad temper. It’s happened a bunch of times to him where he just loses his temper. That’s just immaturity. It hurt the team. Basically, we played great, I thought. That was the best defensive performance from the team I’ve seen so far in the World Cup. But it was no good without a striker who could actually score a goal.

We lost him, we lost Beckham, and all of a sudden we were just defending. And any chances we did have, we kept fluffing. Nobody hit a clean strike at the goal. It was frustrating being down to ten men and having nobody who could really finish. I haven’t got any nails left on my fingers!

I’m gutted, bummed out. I get to play rock n’ roll and forget all about it for at least an hour and a half. But after I kind of got over being upset about it, I remembered there’s still lots of good football to watch. Even watching France was awesome. It lifted my spirits again, just to know that there’s a good few games left and there’s going to be lots of exciting football.

I’m a fan of football and I didn’t expect England to win the World Cup. I thought they would do a little better, maybe get to through to the semis. Especially when we got Portugal – I thought we were in with a good shout. In the end, it’s football that I want to watch. I’m quite happy watching other teams, too.

The football season’s starting in England in September, so I’m quite excited about that, too. It’s just in the moment when you lose like that, everything seems to be so dismal, it’s like the end of the world. But you get over it in a few hours.

 

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