The Official ENGLAND Thread - The Team We ALL Support
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Gun said:
After seeing Germany play, it's now imperative that we finish top of our group!
Agreed. That was the performance thus far - although I appreciate the really big boys have yet to set their stall out.Here's an interesting snippet....
Italy - who won the Cup 4 years ago (2006) - also had a disappointing opening match in Germany that year. They drew 1-1 in their first endeavour and played very poorly.
The team they drew with?
USA.
An omen?
Somehow I suspect the similarities end there
mickk said:
hornetrider said:
BBC Ticker said:
Gareth Barry to start on Friday against Algeria
Super. Only question is - instead of who? Milner? Will Gerrard be pushed to the wings? Or instead of Heskey and Gerrard to play in the 'hole'.Answers on a postcard, but unfortunately I'm going with the former.
But FFS, isn't playing with a defense-minded holding midfielder (Barry) showing the Algerians to much bleedin' respect. Christ, we should be able to play with the 2nd eleven we've taken out there and still win comfortably.
This is a must win game after all.
Castrol Craig said:
Jonny671 said:
ArtVandelay said:
Castrol Craig said:
dreamz said:
yeah crouchy should start - his stats are mostly unbeatable.
efa.20 minutes near the end of the game isn't fair on the chap.
lets weigh it up here....we need goals, we need options.....crouch can give you both.
robm3 said:
What does England actually need to qualify for next round?
Its not just about qualifying for the next round - we desperately need to win the group!!!1st place means we have a do-able route to the semi-final - Probably Ghana/Serbia in the last 16 followed by Uruguay in the Quarter Final before Brazil in the Semi.
2nd place means we have a mountain to climb as it will probably be Germany in the last 16 followed by Argentina in the Quarter Final before Spain in the Semi.
Its a no-brainer.
Skylinecrazy said:
North West Tom said:
Amazing. We've just played and won a crucial, crucial match and everyone's bringing out the negatives c
Thank you.We were hanging on against Slovenia.
Sunday (if its against Germany) will be a big problem without a massive improvement even on that dsplay.
ukwill said:
m0ssy said:
anyone who genuinely believes that we would have gone on to win the game if the goal stood is in cloud cuckoo land imo.
You're entitled to your opinion. ...who knows?
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