Lillian Thomson
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I enjoyed 2014. My enjoyment wasn’t impaired by England’s performance as it was exactly what I was expecting.
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Road to Russia 2018
- Thread starter Furball
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
In fairness wasn't 2012 when Hodgson was parachuted into the job at very short notice?
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
That was against us.
Forgot about that blatant handball not being given. The penalty just makes me hate football.
They were the better team tbf.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yeah and we weren’t too bad in the circumstances. We were decent against France, edged past Sweden in a great game that was somewhat devoid of quality and then we were lucky to beat Ukraine. We stank the joint out in the quarters though
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
We weren’t too bad because the old fool hadn’t yet had time for his full influence to be inflicted on the players.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Probably. Seem to recall Gerrard having a blinder too, which probably helped
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Draw tomorrow. I tried the simulator and England got Poland, Iran and Panama.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Would snatch your arm off for that.
Quite fancy getting Jerry in the group, weirdly enough. It'd at least mean they couldn't knock us out until the final and the chances of us progressing that far are about as likely as Ched Evans being awarded feminist of the year.
Plus it means we dodge Serbia, who are clearly ticking this year's "dangerous floaters" box.
Quite fancy getting Jerry in the group, weirdly enough. It'd at least mean they couldn't knock us out until the final and the chances of us progressing that far are about as likely as Ched Evans being awarded feminist of the year.
Plus it means we dodge Serbia, who are clearly ticking this year's "dangerous floaters" box.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Gropu E looks as close as we got. Wherever Serbia ended up would always look the stiffest one though.
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Aye, though having been in Serbia’s qualifying group they’re pretty terrible in practice. Group D is alright too if Nigeria get a decent side together. A and H are tight-but-shite.
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Yeah and a quarter final exit would keep everyone happy and Southgate would get time to bring more youngsters in in the next campaign.
Scaly piscine
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England always go on about bringing youngsters in, then gets to the World Cup and there'll be Joe Hart, Cahill, Henderson etc. stinking up the place. Although to be fair there'll be young players in the team by default.
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Yeah it’s not the worst to have a decent third team because it means your rivals can take points off each other. If France beat everyone then one win and a decent goal difference might see you over the line. Whereas if you’re stuck with something like Spain, Portugal, Iran then there’s a decent chance you end up needing 7 points.
Though really the big difference is whether you get Russia/Poland or anyone else as the first seed.