Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
the world cup, aside from the unfortunate Tottenhamness of the thing, is to consider the amount of pĂ*ss that would be boiled by the Jockanese, Irishers and Jorge-like self-hating lefties.

Come on Ingerlund!

England won’t win the World Cup and from the outside the enjoyable thing is to sit back and watch as you slowly but surely, both fans and media, perversely convince yourself more and more that it is actually ON and indeed that it is “coming home”.

By all means be a little patriotic and go for it but with a sense of realism. By the way our media is as bad, and we are proper shĂ*te.

Consider the facts, and then question from where this almost ridiculous sense of optimism has come – Tunisia (W), Panama (W), Belgium (L) – yet somehow based on this sequence of results, the absolutely bizarre and borderline idiotic English media have changed tack from being reasonably calm pre-tournament to doing the same as they have always done and building it all up again.

Yes I know Colombia and then Switzerland/Sweden is not the most difficult run of matches but as winnable as they are they are also as easy to lose. I have no idea really why Colombia are being dismissed int he way they are, well I do, they have Ospina in goal. Then there is Croatia and then there is France or Brazil.

Pickford. Walker. Maguire. Henderson. Jordan FĂşcking Henderson. Lingaard. Alli.

It just won’t happen. Would there ever in the history of football been a more average collective of players to have won the World Cup?