06-26-2010, 06:39 AM
Would just like to say that I, and most people in England, are bloody delighted we get to play the Germans. Might not make a lot of sense as Ghana and then Uruguay/S Korea looks like an easier route to the Semis on paper, but it's the Germans. Plus I reckon we'd lose to Ghana (even though I think you guys will beat them). Big, strong, African teams are not our speciality. Neither are small, weak African teams like Algeria it seems, but there you go.
Tomorrow is going to be a special special day, and I can honestly see us buggering the Germans every which way. We started to play like we should against Slovenia (true it was only Slovenia, but there was a shit load of pressure), and we're going to do what we always, ALWAYS do. We start slow, scrape through the group, stuff someone decent in the 2nd round, then play really well but lose narrowly in the Quarters. As it appears we'll be playing the Argies there (assuming we beat the Krauts), that would make perfect sense. They knocked us out in the '98 World Cup on penalties when we played really really well against them, but Beckham got himself sent off and fucked us. If we somehow get through to the final it *could* be the perfect World Cup run for English fans, as we may have to beat every team who has knocked us out of recent World Cups on the way.
USA pipped us to top of the group, we didn't even reach your World Cup in '94.
Germans in the 2nd round, they beat us on penalties in the Semi Final in 1990.
Argies in the Quarters, they beat us on penalties in the 2nd round in 1998.
Possibly Portugal in the Semis, they beat us on, yep, you guessed it, penalties in the Quarters in 2006 (They also knocked us out of the European Championships 2004, in the Quarter Finals, ON PENALTIES. We hate penalties).
Then Brazil in the Final, they beat us, amazingly not on penalties, in the Quarters in 2002.
So that's the last 5 World Cups in one amazing run to the final this time round. Will never happen, but if it does, how perfect would that be?
Good luck to the US today, I'll be inanely chanting U-S-A, U-S-A at the TV this evening. You guys really need to learn some proper football songs, there's some pretty funny ones. And on that note, I'd like to say how proud I am of the England fans at this World Cup, our games are the only ones in the whole tournament where you can here the crowd singing rather than those bloody vuvuzelas. Every game must feel like a home game to our players, it's unbelievable.
Tomorrow is going to be a special special day, and I can honestly see us buggering the Germans every which way. We started to play like we should against Slovenia (true it was only Slovenia, but there was a shit load of pressure), and we're going to do what we always, ALWAYS do. We start slow, scrape through the group, stuff someone decent in the 2nd round, then play really well but lose narrowly in the Quarters. As it appears we'll be playing the Argies there (assuming we beat the Krauts), that would make perfect sense. They knocked us out in the '98 World Cup on penalties when we played really really well against them, but Beckham got himself sent off and fucked us. If we somehow get through to the final it *could* be the perfect World Cup run for English fans, as we may have to beat every team who has knocked us out of recent World Cups on the way.
USA pipped us to top of the group, we didn't even reach your World Cup in '94.
Germans in the 2nd round, they beat us on penalties in the Semi Final in 1990.
Argies in the Quarters, they beat us on penalties in the 2nd round in 1998.
Possibly Portugal in the Semis, they beat us on, yep, you guessed it, penalties in the Quarters in 2006 (They also knocked us out of the European Championships 2004, in the Quarter Finals, ON PENALTIES. We hate penalties).
Then Brazil in the Final, they beat us, amazingly not on penalties, in the Quarters in 2002.
So that's the last 5 World Cups in one amazing run to the final this time round. Will never happen, but if it does, how perfect would that be?
Good luck to the US today, I'll be inanely chanting U-S-A, U-S-A at the TV this evening. You guys really need to learn some proper football songs, there's some pretty funny ones. And on that note, I'd like to say how proud I am of the England fans at this World Cup, our games are the only ones in the whole tournament where you can here the crowd singing rather than those bloody vuvuzelas. Every game must feel like a home game to our players, it's unbelievable.