English commentators go Eurovision with the warming-up of old stereotypes whose mantric repetition borders racism being caught between an arrogant "We are so much better then tyey - they can't sing over there anyway" to a bitter and hurt "Why don't we ever win?"
The answer to the last question is already supplied in advance by the same columnists - it's all a big conspiracy against the English. 
Or several actually.
They reach from the theory that the Spanish dictator Franco had bribed some juries to ensure that Cliff Richard did not make it to the top in 1968, to Britain being punished for entering the Iraq war alongside the US ( in 2004, when the British entry failed to get even one point)regardless failing to take into account that there were actually other members of the "coalition of the willing" (ie. Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine) taking part in the Song contest and what would their motivation be to punish their fellow coalition member?)
No, England, just face it, the song and the artists were crap and that
is why you got "Nul points".
And this year? Its the "voting blocks" that would prevent England
winning, 3 so far, the Balkan bloc (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Greece, Cyprus,
Bulgaria, Hungary), the Eastern bloc (Russia, Ukraine, Armenia,
Georgia, Poland, Belarus, Moldova, Romania) and the Viking Empire
(Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia).
Of course it is not explained why with the recent political development
of the breaking up former Yougoslavia any of the Balcan countries would
vote for each other having been involved in bitter wars against each
others populations; why Turkey would ever want to vote for Greece and
vice versa given their political and military opposition over the past
decades; why eastern European contries would want to faviour their
former master Russia, and how anyway those bloc votes would not cancel
each other out (either within each group if they vote for different
contries within the group) or as indeed group-voting.
All these bitter accusations make it hard to wish for England to do well.
As Scotish football supporter answered when the question was asked in the media why Scottish would not cheer for England: "If you (England) loose, there is violence and riots, and if you win you never hear the end of it (like with 1966). And you ask why we have difficulty cheering for you?"
Yes, well argued. Which makes makes me almost wish that,like so frequently in previous years, the British entry gets less points than the German one...
But wait, that is the same misanthropic spirit as so many English comentators have... that is terrible, I have become like them. I have been staying too long, time to move on....
No, as for the Songcontest, let's enjoy the party, even if it gets silly sometimes, or cringeworthy, may the best liked song win, and should it be the British entry, so be it and I am sure we can put up with the triumphalism and as we did before on similar occasions.
