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Originally Posted by jofillips
omg leave your unfootball political opinions at the door will you? the anti-english hate is pathetic. Do you really want to bring up petty old squabbles like this cos in that case nobody here should support germany or japan!
You're suprised in an english speaking nation that perhaps english tabloid drivel gets repeated?? In no way can anbody claim that england were 'overated' this WC, did anyone even give them a chance?
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I did. I thought this was one of England's best teams in years. Roy set them up very poorly, and their choices at CB were very poor, but theres lots of blame to go around for that.
The media always bang England's drum going into major tournaments because its always 'their year' but this time they went the opposite way and really lowered expectations.
Its really only on the players and the manager. I had England to go through and they should have.
- Costa Rica are arguably the worst team in the tournament
- Not a vintage Italian side - could have had a result
- Uruguay were shambolic through qualifying and had a barely healed Luis Suarez
There was no reason England couldnt have made it out of this group except for the same old, same old. No goals. But hey, maybe they'll rip 10 past Costa Rica and surprise us all by going through.