England Supporters Thread - World Cup 2014

In fairness there is a lot less buzz around tournaments when they aren't there, that being said it's always great to see them make their customary exits at the last 16/quarter final stage after losing a penalty shootout.

They have picked two very tough games against Chile and Germany for their next two friendlies.

They could get a group with both of those teams in it as well. A group I wouldn't expect them to qualify from.

Best of luck to them and their true fans

Wouldn't say they definitely won't win it but they are around my 13th favourites with the likes of Russia and the Ivory Coast.

Brazil
Argentina
Spain
Italy
Germany
Netherlands
Colombia
Uruguay
Chile
Belgium
Portugal
France

 In fairness to you sid, some of your sh*te talk is very well constructed sh*te talk!

England have not lost a World Cup finals match in a year ending in 4 since the quarter-final defeat to Uruguay in 1954. 

Gary McKay wrote: sid waddell wrote: England have not lost a World Cup finals match in a year ending in 4 since the quarter-final defeat to Uruguay in 1954.  60 years unbeaten, an incredible record. The weight of history is on our side.  Considering they didnt qualify in 74 and 94 you're talking sh*te

irishmufc wrote: FrankosHereNow wrote: Don't think anybody, even the English, are expecting England to win the world Cup and I certainly didn't hear anybody last summer saying they'd win the Euros. +1 Met a few last year and in Vienna last month.Every one of them was down to earth and completely realistic about their team.As sound and friendly as any fans I ever met.The Irish tabloid media are nearly as bad as the British for expectations. Id imagine most down to earth english fans don't get lost in the hysteria surrounding their team.I think as usual they'll be shagged out after a long season and will underperform.People then will make out they're a worse team than they actually are if they have a poor showing in Brazil I'd like to see the United players do well with them but apart from that I'm not too fussed how well they do.I'm indifferent.

Always find this funny. Post up some examples there
And not Dunphy

The GerK wrote: irishmufc wrote: FrankosHereNow wrote: Don't think anybody, even the English, are expecting England to win the world Cup and I certainly didn't hear anybody last summer saying they'd win the Euros. +1 Met a few last year and in Vienna last month.Every one of them was down to earth and completely realistic about their team.As sound and friendly as any fans I ever met.The Irish tabloid media are nearly as bad as the British for expectations. Id imagine most down to earth english fans don't get lost in the hysteria surrounding their team.I think as usual they'll be shagged out after a long season and will underperform.People then will make out they're a worse team than they actually are if they have a poor showing in Brazil I'd like to see the United players do well with them but apart from that I'm not too fussed how well they do.I'm indifferent. Always find this funny. Post up some examples there And not Dunphy

To be fair I should've posted in a general media sense rather than focusing just on the tabloids but the Russia game away in 02.Because we done well at the world cup considering Saipan and Russia were poor we were cock sure driven by the media that we were gonna do well against a team with a fantastic qualifying record. The backlash from the Macedonia game 97 was another one.They may have been considered a minnow but if you look we've always had a so-so record against these types of eastern europe teams.
We've had raised expectations since the Charlton era and I do find the media plays it's role in hyping us up and forgetting we're a small country usually punching above our weight.

After this disastrous campaign they'll be a lot more low key