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    Bigger picture 2nd is still far better. Colombia aren't any great shakes and that half of the draw is piss.

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    That was a sack of shit.

    Out to Columbia.

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    England will spank Colombia.

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    We'll spank Colombia and then go out to Switzerland on penalties. A death that befits us.

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    Calm down you raging queens. We wanted to lose that. You don’t put that squad out and deliberately avoid subbing your best players on otherwise. We’re playing well with our first team. Columbia is a big step up, but if we can’t beat them we’d have been thoroughly de-pantsed against Brazil.

    I still believe.

    I still believe.

    I still believe.

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    Everyone needs to calm down. Only Colombia and either Sweden / Switzerland stand between us and a spot in the semi finals.

    Beat Colombia and the build up to the quarter final is going to be electric. It's going to be tough but most knock out games are going to be tough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    We’re playing well with our first team.
    Are we? We've played a team who were more interested in filth than playing football and a pub side.

    3 games in and I for one still have no idea how good we are. I hope Southgate does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Bigger picture 2nd is still far better. Colombia aren't any great shakes and that half of the draw is piss.
    That half? Spain and (to a lesser extent) Croatia are in that half you know.

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    I would have just marched on. Seven straight games with your best team, that's how you win a World Cup.

    We are clearly happy with a pikey semi-final though based on Gareth Neville's punditry.

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    The semi final berth is confirmed. From there it's two games.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    That half? Spain and (to a lesser extent) Croatia are in that half you know.
    And they're the only two. The other half that Belgium have landed themselves in is far stronger.
    Should be a canter to a semi now without playing anyone.

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    England have done better than germany, at least.
    I'm a twit

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    Fucking lol at the state of some in this thread. I expect it from Yev, because its Yev, but fucking hell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    And they're the only two. The other half that Belgium have landed themselves in is far stronger.
    Should be a canter to a semi now without playing anyone.
    Yeah, but you can only play three of the teams left in it, so talk of it being a weaker half is completely irrelevant if Spain are waiting in the semi's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Are we? We've played a team who were more interested in filth than playing football and a pub side.

    3 games in and I for one still have no idea how good we are. I hope Southgate does.
    We’ve been fine. The Red had a nightmare against Tunisia, it should have been much, much easier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Yeah, but you can only play three of the teams left in it, so talk of it being a weaker half is completely irrelevant if Spain are waiting in the semi's.
    Semi's would be an unbelievable final result.

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    All this "confidence and momentum" bollocks can fuck off. I just can't believe that a professional sportsman would suffer a lack of confidence by losing one game they weren't really trying to win, or would gain anything significant from beating someone's reserves.

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    Psychology is a massive part of sport. They're not robots.

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    At least we've learned that if Plan A (aka set pieces) isn't working then there really is no Plan B off the bench.

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    Stuck a tenner on Kane golden boot and England winning WC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Psychology is a massive part of sport. They're not robots.
    Of course it is, but as I said, it's a reserve team game we didn't need to win. It's insignificant and certainly not going to make up the difference between Brazil and Sweden.

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    In other news today, Nick Pope's doing alright for himself.

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    Limmy's winding up Crisps on Twitter.

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    Limmy is a world class tadger.

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    Limmy?

    EDIT: Oh fuck, that humourless pox.

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    I've just read it, and I still don't know who Limmy is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Browning View Post
    All this "confidence and momentum" bollocks can fuck off. I just can't believe that a professional sportsman would suffer a lack of confidence by losing one game they weren't really trying to win, or would gain anything significant from beating someone's reserves.
    As Jim said, they're humans. When they've actually lived it, a result isn't a tick or cross in a box. I can't imagine anyone, professional or not, not having doubts after they've lost their most recent match.

    I don't think that game helped us at all. The players could have had valuable practice playing against their toughest opponents yet. Instead, second choices got practice playing among players who they will never play with in the knockouts. Much better to have Delph have practice looking up and seeing Kane drop deep instead of Vardy running in behind (for example). That was an almost useless experience, considering any potential boost in confidence game time would have given to the second string would likely have been squashed by losing.

    All that said, we're through to the knockouts, and we're England. So woo!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reg View Post
    As Jim said, they're humans. When they've actually lived it, a result isn't a tick or cross in a box. I can't imagine anyone, professional or not, not having doubts after they've lost their most recent match.
    Especially seeing as you've only beaten 2 irrelevant teams prior to that. You come up against the first proper team, and surely the result is less important and the two teams are fielding their second XI's, but you still lose with a bad performance. There's no way that can be good for morale even if it was pre-agreed that you'd be fine with 2nd place.

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    As someone said on twitter, if Roberto Martinez is doing something, should you be doing it too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Browning View Post
    I've just read it, and I still don't know who Limmy is.
    God.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    As someone said on twitter, if Roberto Martinez is doing something, should you be doing it too?
    That's FA Cup winner Roberto Martinez. What has Southgate won as a manager?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Browning View Post
    I've just read it, and I still don't know who Limmy is.
    Count that blessing and never look any further.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adramelch View Post
    That's FA Cup winner Roberto Martinez. What has Southgate won as a manager?
    Our hearts.

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    Is it still coming home boys? I say YES.

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    Not that American sports matter to you guys but if the city of Cleveland can finally win a championship after 50 some years and if the Chicago Cubs can win the World Series after like 100 than the damn THREE LIONS can certainly win the World Cup

    You all should know I want nothing more than to correct everyone who says "Ashley Young" to say "World Cup Winner Ashley Young, MBE" cause surely they'd give him one of those initial-y thingy's you guys do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Our hearts.


    I was so close to posting this.

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    Hang your head in shame Bruh.

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    If we won the World Cup it would be genuinely amazing. It would be the best thing to happen to the country in my lifetime. And this is probably our best chance since 1990.

    Which is why it's so frustrating watching that shite earlier.

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    As for the game itself, nobody on the pitch did anything to force their way into the first team, which is a real shame as I'd rather have Rose, Cahill and Rashford in the team than Young, Walker and Sterling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    If we won the World Cup it would be genuinely amazing. It would be the best thing to happen to the country in my lifetime. And this is probably our best chance since 1990.

    Which is why it's so frustrating watching that shite earlier.
    Irrespective of the draw I don't give us any chance of winning it. I think Colombia could turn us over and all the bunting will have been based on smashing a pub team.

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    I think we'll beat Colombia. Their centre backs are a bit of a mess and their goalkeeper is as dodgy as it gets.

    The famously easy quarter-final will not be easy at all though, especially when Switzerden manager Nils Parsnip shows his team a video of the England v Belgium game and says look boys, this is how easy they think we are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Hang your head in shame Bruh.
    I'm just trying to be supportive :'(

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    I know.

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    On the “confidence” front, what if we had picked our strongest side and got turned over by the Belgium B team? Wouldn’t that have knocked it?

    You can spin this shit from any angle. First or second, momentum or squad rotation. I think we’ll beat Colombia, especially with no James Rodriguez and go into a quarter final where we will be favourites and that’s pretty good.

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    You're slowly all coming round to the idea. It's beautiful.

    Jimmy's on board, but I fear Yevrah needs two or three more rounds.

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    We'd do Spain in the semi as well, far too physical for them (where has the idea that Croatia are contenders come from? They're absolute spastics) and then it's just how to get past Ronaldo's Portugal in the final.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    As for the game itself, nobody on the pitch did anything to force their way into the first team, which is a real shame as I'd rather have Rose, Cahill and Rashford in the team than Young, Walker and Sterling.
    You need to have Walker in the back three for his pace, even if he is a bit of a bombscare (not as if Cahill isn't). The latter would be a boon at set pieces though

    Rashford is just wank. He'll biff one in every now and then without thinking (as per Lewis' point about him) but the overall quality of his play is poor. Sterling probably meshes better with Lingard and 'Dele' even if he struggles to be able to kick a ball. Rashford can at least make an impact off the bench which is more than can be said of any of our other attacking options.

    Rose still looks a bit rusty, which is a shame as having a left-footed player there would be better.

    Set pieces and Kane, that's our hope.

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    No use of VAR tonight

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    This is hilarious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    We'd do Spain in the semi as well, far too physical for them (where has the idea that Croatia are contenders come from? They're absolute spastics) and then it's just how to get past Ronaldo's Portugal in the final.
    Get Dier to Ramos him early doors.

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