Reply to: World Cup Draw

[eek]

Yep. at the first England game is on at 11pm in the UK!

So the match will be played in extreme humidity and heat to please the BBC/ITV....

[Archangel]

The game has been brought forward to 11pm bst

[sasguru]

Heat and humidity will play a part in the 1st game. The younger and fitter team will prevail, not necessarily the better skilled one.

[stek]

Disagree. England have some good players up front, the back's a bit iffy.
And people underestimate the element of luck in poof-ball.
It will be interesting psychologically to have to play 2 hard games to start with, a bit of luck in the first one and some momentum may be generated.
Especially if they feel they have nothing to lose, which, as you note, is true for change.

Agree. How many times have England been drawn in an 'easy group' only to struggle with 0-0 draws against Tunisia or whoever first game and the doubts set in.

Even a 0-0 vs Italy would set the ball rolling, Uruguay aren't that good and the players are used to Suarez, the cheating twunt. Costa Rica will do us tho!

[sasguru]

England will never win a tournament because they don't have good players.
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Disagree. England have some good players up front, the back's a bit iffy.
And people underestimate the element of luck in poof-ball.
It will be interesting psychologically to have to play 2 hard games to start with, a bit of luck in the first one and some momentum may be generated.
Especially if they feel they have nothing to lose, which, as you note, is true for change.

[minestrone]

England will never win a tournament because they don't have good players.

Sadly this is now realised, the 'we might just do it this time' followed by the car crash when it went wrong was always the most entertaining thing about the competitions.

[Doggy Styles]

England will never win a tournament while the players are owned by the premier league, instead of owned by England.

[darmstadt]

C'mon, where's your patriotism? England are going to win, and win with ease...Who invented the bloody game in the first place? If it wasn't for us then johnny foreigner would still be doing Trotting, Petanque (I actually enjoy that), Bandy, Korfball, etc.

[russell]

England will go through, they have to fulfil their manifest destiny to go out or pens to Portugal after Rooney is sent off for biting Ronaldo's ballsack.

[Doggy Styles]

England won't get out the group.

(what I have been saying for a year)

What would you know about getting out of a group? Scotland have never done it.

[stek]

Who have Scotland drawn?

They've got repeats of Hamish McBeth instead of World Cup Match of the Day...

Can't wait!!

We're better than the Costa Rican's, we're better than the Costa Rican's...

[MarillionFan]

Bye bye ya English *****

Who have Scotland drawn?

[Cliphead]

Bye bye ya English *****

[AtW]

Yep. at the first England game is on at 2am in the UK!

With Italy.

So you would not want to watch it really ...

[AtW]

they will get it fierce when it goes bad.

They know they'd get it anyway, once every 4 years - not bad going for a lot of money