Well if you'd gone up you wouldn't have criticised everyone to **** for not qualifying automatically. Nor would you have ignored your perfectly good success and continued to bore the world incessantly by droning on and on and on about something Tranmere did in the 60s before you were born.
Not true, they sang the same songs way before 2005.
Ah, lectures in crowd behaviour from Australians whose chosen way of communicating is to raise "a giant middle finger". Nice one. Ranks up there with Ricky Ponting sermonising about the Spirit of Cricket.
Nah, it's just not true. The tabloids do whip up the nationliastic fervour, but there's no way we can be happy with what our national team has done. How many of the really big teams have we beaten in finals tournaments? I can think of about three going back to '66: Holland in '96 (who qualified anyway), Germany in 2000 (when neither of us qualified) & Argentina in 2002 thanks to a Mickey Owen dive.
Success for England is being number 1. It is all relative and England are not Albania, they are whether you like it or not, 'powerhouses' in cricket, rugby and football.
Well yes, that's the attitude that a fair weather fan might adopt.
Mediocrity? Since when is being the fifth best country in a world of 200 mediocrity? Losing a quarter-final to Brazil by the odd flukey goal, being knocked out on penalties by a world-class Portugal side, that's competing with the best and it's so, so far from mediocrity.
It is when your players are the best paid in the world.
I am not Aussie, I in fact support England. But could not help that one out. I think some of the fans just went overboard by the likes of booing Ponting etc. That section truly deserved this slapping.
How many times since 1990 have we gone out to a team (in the football anyway) to a team of lesser ability than our own, barring the fiasco in 1992 and a dreadful display in 2000 I would say none. Like it or not, there comes a time when you just have to admit, that your team, good as they may be, are just not quite good enough, as has been the case on pretty much every occasion I can think of. It's not a case of being a horrible failure, it's just being beaten by a team who are generally better. You say that England should have beaten big teams, but why is that? The national team have done nothing to suggest that they are capable of doing so, so why get upset when they fail? I agree that it's frustrating, but to harp out on about "Major dissapointments" after being edged out by a better team in a number of very close games just irks me. You really do get the feeling that there is a sense of "we have a divine right to win tournaments" amongst a lot of fans, somewhat illogically.
Check out Portugal's population. Why are they world class and us not? & ****ing Greece won in 2002. Greece! It's relative, we are one of the biggest footballing nations in the world, but as I keep saying we're comfortably the worst of them. We should be beating the likes of Portugal and Croatia with plenty to spare.
Ouch! sore losers do tend to get a bit prickly.
See my response to Uppercut. We should be beating Portugal with plenty to spare. & it can't be accidental we keep losing on penalties, taking them is a skill that can be worked on.
I would never settle for it, but I think it's naive to expect more, simply because "we are England".
Haha, welcome to 2006.I blame teams like Arsenal not giving English youth enough of a chance
