Oh Dear: Mediocrity yet again

[voron]

Perhaps not so bad after all...

Looking through the last round of results, to give England their due, mediocre results have affected all the big nations:

Italy 1 - 0 Slovenia
Portugal 2 - 1 Liechtenstein
Switzerland 1- 1 France

[wendigo100]

if you care so much about results, then you need to care about HOW these results were achieved -- if success is due to professionalism and great play, then you can be sure that future results will be assured, where as if CURRENT even positive result is luck or what not, then you can't really hope that this will persist.

Am I correct that Austria is pretty crap in football department?

You are correct about Austria, but England's form now is unlikely to have much bearing on a team's chances in the final tournament.

For example, ever since I can remember, Spain have crushed all opposition in their qualifying groups (until this year anyway), then they go to the finals tournament and get eliminated early.