1/4 Final: England v Sweden Sat @ 3 pm

Green Devil wrote: Fair play to Southgate and this team, a place in a World Cup Semi Final for the first time since 1990 is a brilliant achievement and anything else from here on in is very much bonus territory. I think it should be a case of "so what" if France, Belgium and Croatia are better sides than England, seeing as the majority of posters on here didn't give England a prayer of doing anything pre tournament and Southgate was called a spoofer!

Absolutely. Far from a spoofer. Some of the players are quite ordinary, but he's getting the best out of them with a progressive style. Laughable really that the majority of ybig posters were predicting the underdogs to win the last 16 game and this one. Clearly poor gamblers. I still don't think they'll win it overall but they'll have at least an even chance of making the final against either Croatia or Russia.

E2016 wrote: Sweden won the poll on here, is that a pisstake? There's not one Swedish player that would start for England.

nvidic wrote: E2016 wrote: Sweden won the poll on here, is that a pisstake? There's not one Swedish player that would start for England. And no Russian who would play for Spain, didnt stop them

Its always a poor choice to dismiss a team with isn't it. I would have giving the Swedes a bigger chance against England than Russia against most teams in the tournament. A team is always better than individuals if they play together. Its why I will always feel 2002 we should have gone further.

Het-field wrote: E2016 wrote: Sweden won the poll on here, is that a pisstake? There's not one Swedish player that would start for England. Never underestimate how anglophobia can cloud judgement.

But most lads on here follow English premier league football. They cant be Anglophobes if watch that muck surly ? Id call them English football supporters and special in some sense , unless they live in England or have some real attachment other than glory to a club

Het-field wrote: E2016 wrote: Sweden won the poll on here, is that a pisstake? There's not one Swedish player that would start for England. Never underestimate how anglophobia can cloud judgement.

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Het-field wrote: E2016 wrote: Sweden won the poll on here, is that a pisstake? There's not one Swedish player that would start for England. Never underestimate how anglophobia can cloud judgement. It was definitely based on hope! None of the swedes would get into the England team.

welcome to Tan central, crawling outta the bleeding woodwork on here so they are 

So an Ikea store, a taxi smashed up along with a London Ambulance Rapid Response Car pt out of service after being jumped on.... imagine if the c.unts had have lost. 

coyne when we reached the world cup quarter final or Euro last 16 there was no issues as far as I remember.  We are no angels but there doesn't seem to be the same level of pent up aggression with us.  It's joy.