O/T England World Cup thread

[marky No.1]

As we came second in the group, we're classed as the AWAY team and as such Germany wear their Home strip, which is predominately white hence we wear our alternate strip.

O.K. good answer, I can go with that..... so in the knockout stages when there is'nt a "group" winner who is home and away then??

Although Germany wear white shirts and socks they normally wear black shorts, in which case I would have expected us to stick to white shorts

[outsider]

It then goes to game numbers, ours is second round game 3, The winner of that goes to the away section of QF 3, winner of that to semi 2 as home team......see clear as mud, just look on your wall chart

[mrpotatohead]

Well done , a well organised and deserved boost for Africa as a whole

[Keith]

Well done , a well organised and deserved boost for Africa as a whole

Glad we came second in our group!

[Opinionated]

Nice to see the end of the Clinton circus

[Keith]

If you can't get prima-donas to play football, here's a thought, tell them to f* off and go on holiday and take players who want it. Rooney, Gerrard et-al, have been abysmal, not just today but for the whole tournament. World class? Heroes in their own minds.

Rooney wants to know why 'his own fans' booed? Well, it's 'cause you've been crap.

[P/T Indie]

They only look good for their clubs because they are playing with world class foreigners who make them look good for example Gerrard plays next to the Argentina captain at Liverpool.

I await the excuses like we were tired etc Byern Munich got to the champions league final and schweinsteiger doesn't look tired to me.

Then there is to much pressue on them, only the same as anyother country and imagine playing for Brazil your expected to win every game 6v0!

[Keith]

"we played well but the referee made a big mistake"

Was he watching the same game as the rest of us?

Gabby Logan says 'why did so many big players not preform at this World Cup?'

and he blames the ref???

If his English is so poor, he shouldn't be looking after a national team that speak English...

...or he's talking b****cks.

[P/T Indie]

He only struggles with his english when he is getting asked hard questions.

If that had been an English manager he would have got hammered with questions and the media would have demanded an explanation there and then.

[Moose]

I blame that bloody octopus! The team must have seen it's prediction and thought that 'resistance is futile'.....
Damn cephalopod!

[Blackpool Shrimp]

Totally agree pt indie .... if we took all the foreign players out of the premiership the league would be average at best ...heskey crouch cole etc can't even get starts in club teams

[Plain Peter]

Anyway, Peter, I'm not 100% wrong yet - unlike someone I could mention.

Sorted

[shrimper]

Anyway, Peter, I'm not 100% wrong yet - unlike someone I could mention.

Sorted

My I remind the honourable member of our respective predictions:

Peter - England won't get out of the group stage. Result - 100% wrong.


Shrimper -
The Golden Boot will go to someone who hadn't scored prior to Monday of this week.
Spain will go out on penalties.
Brazil won't win it.
England will top our group but not before more panics tomorrow.
Robert Green will come back in to replace the injured James sometime and will save a crucial penalty.
There won't be an African team left in it after the group stage.

Still got three to go!

[Keith]

Anyway, Peter, I'm not 100% wrong yet - unlike someone I could mention.

Sorted

My I remind the honourable member of our respective predictions:

Peter - England won't get out of the group stage. Result - 100% wrong.


Shrimper -
The Golden Boot will go to someone who hadn't scored prior to Monday of this week.
Spain will go out on penalties.
Brazil won't win it.
England will top our group but not before more panics tomorrow.
Robert Green will come back in to replace the injured James sometime and will save a crucial penalty.
There won't be an African team left in it after the group stage.

Still got three to go!

So Peter 100% wrong, Shrimper 50% wrong... so far!

[shrimper]

Aye - but whatever happens, I can only be just as wrong as Peter, I had more of a run for my money and he only had one prediction.

I'm claiming a moral victory.

[Keith]

[Plain Peter]

Back from Turkey now.
I'm glad I was wrong, cos it's only right that I was wrong, cos I'm nearly always wrong, and I would have hated to be right on that one.
I recall scribing that by the time me and Doris got home from Turkey that England's interest in the World Cup would be history. I got that right.

I just could not believe that 'goal' not being given.
We were in a busy bar in Istanbul.
A Finnish Spurs supporter behind me had 10 minutes earlier muttered that Upson was a waste of space, and then up he pops.
Then that 'goal', and everyone of loads of languages were just gob-smacked.

And now we've got an excuse that we don't deserve.

I think it's about time the goals were made a yard wider, and a foot higher. At least we'd see more goals then.

[marky No.1]

I think it's about time the goals were made a yard wider, and a foot higher. At least we'd see more goals then.

Yeah but most of em would no doubt end up in our net!

[scar]

I think it's about time the goals were made a yard wider, and a foot higher. At least we'd see more goals then.

Heskey still wouldn't be able to score!

[shrimpnsave]

I think it's about time the goals were made a yard wider, and a foot higher. At least we'd see more goals then.

Heskey still wouldn't be able to score!

neither would mullins......

[Harry]

I think it's about time the goals were made a yard wider, and a foot higher. At least we'd see more goals then.

Heskey still wouldn't be able to score!

neither would mullins......

Who's this Mullins

[shrimper]

Last four. Us v Brazil, Argentina v Italy.

Can anyone find me some odds please.

I was going to post some predictions on here earlier this week so I will now.

The Golden Boot will go to someone who hadn't scored prior to Monday of this week.
Spain will go out on penalties.
Brazil won't win it.
England will top our group but not before more panics tomorrow.
Robert Green will come back in to replace the injured James sometime and will save a crucial penalty.
There won't be an African team left in it after the group stage.

Ner ner! That makes me more clevererer than old Donkey Bollocks!!

[Plain Peter]

Ner ner! That makes me more clevererer than old Donkey Bollocks!!

Stop it, they're burning