JM14
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Germany included, they are miles off being a top side. Should be a game we will win comfortablySo we beat Germany then. Sod it, must have slept in and missed it.
Germany included, they are miles off being a top side. Should be a game we will win comfortablySo we beat Germany then. Sod it, must have slept in and missed it.
Southgate has to go if we dont make the final as a minimum. Has any side ever had an easier run to a world cup and euro final than this?
The last time we beat a big nation in a knockout stage in 90 minutes was Spain in the 1968 European championships.Don't be daft man. I'm confident we can beat Germany but we've not knocked out a top national side in the knockout stages since 1966, I'll repeat that since 1966, 55 years ago!
It'll hardly be an unprecedented and unforgivable failure if we don't get past Germany.
And the nonsense about it being an easy route to the semis of the World Cup is rubbish too. Czech Republic showed today there are no easy games in the latter stages of tournaments. England beat exactly the sort of teams England sides had been losing to and failing against for generations.
Edit-I forgot we knocked out Spain in 96.
What about Spain in 96? Anyway looks like I forgot two victories so my credibility is gone.The last time we beat a big nation in a knockout stage in 90 minutes was Spain in the 1968 European championships.
It is a game we are capable of winning and certainly Germany are not the force they were but "a game we will win comfortably"?? I hope you're right.Germany included, they are miles off being a top side. Should be a game we will win comfortably
Watched highlights of England 4 Holland 1 a few days ago,I honestly don't think a single 1 of the current team would get into that side.Watched highlights of England 4
Watched highlights of England 4 Holland 1 a few days ago,I honestly don't think a single 1 of the current team would get into that side.
And to add to that, we have only ever won one knockout game at the Euro’s. How depressing of a stat is thatThe last time we beat a big nation in a knockout stage in 90 minutes was Spain in the 1968 European championships.
We should have won the fa cup in 2006. Dean Ashton should have been sent off.That, and the fact they were quite a lot better than us that season. The league table doesn't lie.
Had we beaten Cardiff, we would still have had a less than 50/50 chance of lifting the cup.
Pompey would have been favourites for the final, and there's always a thin chance we'd have lost in the semi.
It may still be the best chance we get in my life time. Yes, it still hurts, but we exaggerate how close we were. We love to pity ourselves over this, and it's sometimes just used as an excuse to beat GS.
It is when you think of how big a footballing nation we are, the huge successes we've had in club football over the decades and the quality of players we produce. Our international record is really quite poor outside of 1966.And to add to that, we have only ever won one knockout game at the Euro’s. How depressing of a stat is that
I'd also probably take any of our right backs over Gary Neville.
Surely you've got to be joking?
Gary Neville was one of the best RBs in the world and arguably the greatest RB ever to play in the Premier League.
Trippier Walker & James aren't fit to lace his boots.
I think at one time we had the best FBs in the world. Ashley Cole & Gary Neville.
or get dumped out at the group stage despite being favourites (2002)