Oh well. I hope they give a fair assessment to a team that got much further than they were expected to. I know we dared to dream but they have had a solid tournament.
Disappointing for England to go out to Croatia tonight but still a good achievement for them to reach their first World Cup Semi Final in 28 years and room to build on in the future
Kane and Alli both didn’t turn up today. We were outclassed in midfield and in the end they had far more chances. But it is better than we had any right to expect.
Death knell for Brexit. Pretty good as silver linings go.
And G is going to win the Tour.
What an absurd statement, England AND Wales voted for Brexit and before this tournament had even begun. The correlation between sport and politics is greatly exaggerated
Croatia controlled match from 46th minute. Pickford best England player. Croatian coach deserves credit for unpicking England, and working out how to control the game after a poor first half.
England 'crash' out at the semi final stage for the first time since 1990, 2 years later the Tories won a historic 4th term against a Labour leader expecting to win on his second attempt. Just sayin'!
England 'crash' out at the semi final stage for the first time since 1990, 2 years later the Tories won a historic 4th term against a Labour leader expecting to win on his second attempt. Just sayin'!
England 'crash' out at the semi final stage for the first time since 1990, 2 years later the Tories won a historic 4th term against a Labour leader expecting to win on his second attempt. Just sayin'!
England 'crash' out at the semi final stage for the first time since 1990, 2 years later the Tories won a historic 4th term against a Labour leader expecting to win on his second attempt. Just sayin'!
And what happened between the crashing out and election win?
Croatia controlled match from 46th minute. Pickford best England player. Croatian coach deserves credit for unpicking England, and working out how to control the game after a poor first half.
He's never managed outside of small teams in the Balkans or the Middle East.
After the WC he's going to get some very nice offers.
Death knell for Brexit. Pretty good as silver linings go.
And G is going to win the Tour.
Hm, don't you think you are overstating it a touch?
Oh, absolutely. Froome has a chance too.
More seriously, I do think a World Cup win, lovely though it might have been, would have revived the sense of English exceptionalism; and that would have inflated people's belief that we could thrive as a buccaneering island nation divorced from the world. Reality always bites in the end.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
wonderful , England humped and 3 winning bets , what more can you ask for.
Scotland to get to a quarter final of a major tournament maybe, never mind a semi final?
Scotland to qualify for one?
That would be a start, Wales and NI at least got to the 2016 Euros even if not this World Cup
24 countries will make it out of 55 so there is a good chance. It will be an odd tournament though with no host country - albeit Wembley hosts the final 3 matches. Each of the 12 host nations if they qualify are guaranteed 2 group matches at home.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
wonderful , England humped and 3 winning bets , what more can you ask for.
Scotland to get to a quarter final of a major tournament maybe, never mind a semi final?
Scotland to qualify for one?
That would be a start, Wales and NI at least got to the 2016 Euros even if not this World Cup
24 countries will make it out of 55 so there is a good chance. It will be an odd tournament though with no host country - albeit Wembley hosts the final 3 matches. You could in theory have Russia playing a group match in Glasgow and England one in Azerbaijan?
No, the cities have been allocated already and any hosts which qualify will automatically be placed in those groups. Wembley and Hampden are in one group, so should England and Scotland qualify, they will be in the same group and will draw lots to see who will be at home when they play each other.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
I agree with most of that but it still hurts that this was our best chance of getting to a world cup final.
Next time we will have a great french team,Italy back,maybe the netherlands,a improved German side and the two great teams from south america Brazil and Argentina.
And for the English player in the premier league ,dwindling all the time.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
All true.
But I can't help feeling it will be a while before a tournament opens up for England as this one did.
That doesn't mean they can't win but its likely to be harder next time.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
I agree with most of that but it still hurts that this was our best chance of getting to a world cup final.
Next time we will have a great french team,Italy back,maybe the netherlands,a improved German side and the two great teams from south america Brazil and Argentina.
And for the English player in the premier league ,dwindling all the time.
And a finals held in November and early December - no light sultry evenings sitting outside but huddled together inside the pub in the dark. Whose stupid idea was that!?
It's going to clash with I'm a celebrity so perhaps ITV won't broadcast it as well as the Xmas party season.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
All true.
But I can't help feeling it will be a while before a tournament opens up for England as this one did.
That doesn't mean they can't win but its likely to be harder next time.
No. And my words shouldn't be interpreted as anything other than absolutely gutted.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
Up to a point. Yes, we were lucky to get this far but tonight we really should have beaten Croatia.
The big 'what-if' will be what if Rashford had been chosen instead of Sterling.
Sterling was a lot better than Rashford today.
Sterling runs about a lot but there's little end product.
Don't quite understand the game do you.
No shame in that but stop embarrassing yourself.
I see you're looking in the mirror again Toppo.
What a zinger. You're on fire.
Masks to a slight extent your ignorance of the game.
Yet you know I'm right.
Hopefully your newly discovered interest in football will last longer than this weekend.
Look at the performances today. If anyone deserves comment perhaps it's Kane who seemed to have peaked before the game kicked off and seemed to go missing for the second half. There were misses all over the park. There was too much play in our own half back to Pickford, Lingard should have scored, Trippier's distribution was poor and Sterling didn't get into the game at all..
But by all means if you want to narrow it down to Sterling vs Rashford because you're arguing with someone on the internet, then knock yourself out.
Death knell for Brexit. Pretty good as silver linings go.
And G is going to win the Tour.
Hm, don't you think you are overstating it a touch?
Oh, absolutely. Froome has a chance too.
More seriously, I do think a World Cup win, lovely though it might have been, would have revived the sense of English exceptionalism; and that would have inflated people's belief that we could thrive as a buccaneering island nation divorced from the world. Reality always bites in the end.
This "English exceptionalism" bollocks is beautifully self-torpedoing, in that the claim seems to be that we do national exceptionalism better, or at least more, than anyone else does. Do you see any problem with that?
The big 'what-if' will be what if Rashford had been chosen instead of Sterling.
Sterling was a lot better than Rashford today.
Sterling runs about a lot but there's little end product.
Don't quite understand the game do you.
No shame in that but stop embarrassing yourself.
I see you're looking in the mirror again Toppo.
What a zinger; you're on fire.
Masks to a slight extent your ignorance of the game.
What he knows about football is only matched by his knowledge about the number of generals in the army.
Yes my fault for believing what I read on PB without checking myself.
Did you bother finding out if the British Army could field a full strength Division for its generals to command or what the ratio of Admirals to warships is in the RN.
If anyone had said we'd lose in extra time in the semi before the comp. They'd have said you needed help. Rejoice that for once we over achieved. And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation. Not often that can be said.
I agree with most of that but it still hurts that this was our best chance of getting to a world cup final.
Next time we will have a great french team,Italy back,maybe the netherlands,a improved German side and the two great teams from south america Brazil and Argentina.
And for the English player in the premier league ,dwindling all the time.
Again true. But we are not a great England side either. Just a young and promising one. We can't control how good anyone else is. And yes it hurts because it was a chance. But we have the nucleus of a good side for the next one. The others have to start finding one.
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And G is going to win the Tour.
Same old same old.
At least once a generation we have to go through a World Cup let-down with England.
Oh dear...not on the menu....
(Just getting ahead of the curve!)
When you're so on top as England were then you have to make it pay.
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Still I am cheering for Croatia and England at the weekend - it's time to give the Eurozone a good thrashing!
They conceded the first goal against Denmark, Russia and now England but fought back each time.
Literally nobody cares about the losers match anyway though.
We went out to a quality team, it happens. Team did amazingly to get this far, it is a very young team they have a chance in future tournaments.
Gutted to go out but its been a great experience that I didn't expect.
There's a reason I'm off to Frankfurt for the 6th time this year next week.
Just sayin.
After the WC he's going to get some very nice offers.
More seriously, I do think a World Cup win, lovely though it might have been, would have revived the sense of English exceptionalism; and that would have inflated people's belief that we could thrive as a buccaneering island nation divorced from the world. Reality always bites in the end.
No shame in that but stop embarrassing yourself.
Rejoice that for once we over achieved.
And behaved ourselves. This team is a credit to the nation.
Not often that can be said.
1990 WC
1996 EC
2018 WC
Next time we will have a great french team,Italy back,maybe the netherlands,a improved German side and the two great teams from south america Brazil and Argentina.
And for the English player in the premier league ,dwindling all the time.
But I can't help feeling it will be a while before a tournament opens up for England as this one did.
That doesn't mean they can't win but its likely to be harder next time.
Masks to a slight extent your ignorance of the game.
It's going to clash with I'm a celebrity so perhaps ITV won't broadcast it as well as the Xmas party season.
It too a while for CfB to wade through the treacle that’s Common Council.
Hopefully your newly discovered interest in football will last longer than this weekend.
Joy of joys.
It was a great achievement by a rather limited team.
Nobody remembers the defeated finalist never-mind who came third.
Third place is for losers.
But by all means if you want to narrow it down to Sterling vs Rashford because you're arguing with someone on the internet, then knock yourself out.
Fortunately this is now a profitable world cup for me.
'Mrs May said England got most of what it wanted
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Did you bother finding out if the British Army could field a full strength Division for its generals to command or what the ratio of Admirals to warships is in the RN.
And yes it hurts because it was a chance.
But we have the nucleus of a good side for the next one. The others have to start finding one.
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