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We all say we wont get carried away but when you win or stay in a competition its only natural to hope for the best
As long as we dont lose tonight and everyone is up in arms....which again they will
Losing germany plus almost every big team not being at the races has opened this up to anyone who progresses,which we have
When the team do well, and I am casting my mind back to examples like Italia'90 and Euro '96 where we genuinely were contenders, the country experienced a feel good factor that was easy to feel. The day after we exited the tournaments, the depressing feeling was huge too.
I dont want to patronize any of the younger members who havent experienced that sort of vibe through England, but its the reason I want us to be in the lower half of the draw. I've had that many loses to the likes of Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal etc to actually want us to have a little bit of luck on our side.
I am NOT suggesting the lower half teams will fall over for us. I just believe that percentage wise how many days would we have where Brazil have an off day and we are at the top of our game? Plus the next game and game after.
Nobody is going to be a pushover, but in relative terms I just wanted us to have a better chance of progressing. I do understand the other point of view, I just want us to have the best chance that's possible.
In the top half we meet Brazil and one of France (poor), Argentina (average), Uruguay (dangerous) or Portugal (average).
In the bottom half we meet Spain (average). My comments in brackets are as I see them at this moment in the competition. I currently rate England as dangerous.
Now that is writing off all the other teams for the sake of the argument. None of them will be pushovers and there will be surprises.
So we play to win tonight with the bonus of breezing through to the semis if we don't. ;biggrin
Those line-ups for me are a bit of a joke...
Dross,
Can’t get into this
Water tomato plants
And lose the next one
what a shambles
That scenario would never have happened if the draw was made after every round rather than teams potentially mapping out a route and engineering accordingly if theres a capacity to.
Both teams have essentially has a rest that the other nations werent afforded. That doesnt particularly sit well with me but I do believe 100%, in the same circumstances, every other team wouldve rested their most important players too. The Germans for example would've probably justified it on their way to the trophy. It's not typically English but as said above, now we have to justify what was done by going deep into the tournament. Very deep...
plus what he forgot to add - I have to go to parish council meeting Monday night and now I can watch England on tuesday ;biggrin
Personally i think you just take it 1 game at a time and i think Japan is a much much easier game than columbia so im disappointed we didnt go for it more
Also surely we'd like to go up agaisnt the 'better' teams esepcially as none if them are really firing atm so nows the best time to knock em out
England v Uruguay final
I am somewhat surprised at the lack of passion, these were “fringe” players who really should have given everything, what did they have to lose?.
I am also mad at myself, I did everything possible to avoid the result during the day and on passing someone who I barely know, he said, “well England won”.... I pulled a face and he said “oh come on you know the result” I replied that truly I didn’t and walked off in bit of a huff, I actually heard him say after me that he was kidding.
It was not until the 83rd minute that I began to realize that he was kidding after all..
;doh ;weep