Euro 2012

Old Jun 5th 2012, 3:57 pm
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Originally Posted by co durham boy
England will beat France
Yes and Ireland will reach the final.
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Old Jun 5th 2012, 4:02 pm
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So I take it Sol Campbell will not be attending...
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 9:58 am
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FIFA World Rankings are out............... England move up to 6th, just behind Brazil and still ahead of Argentina ...... Uruguay second, behind Spain........ Portugal fall from 5th to 10th........ blimey.........
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 10:03 am
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FIFA World Rankings are out............... England move up to 6th, just behind Brazil and still ahead of Argentina ...... Uruguay second, behind Spain........ Portugal fall from 5th to 10th........ blimey.........
An absolute joke. I could name you at least 12 countries better than England right now, but I won't.
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 10:05 am
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Originally Posted by co durham boy
England will beat France
After their annihilation of Estonia last night, I expect France to beat England comfortably with only Joe Hart standing in the way of a cricket score.
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 10:14 am
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After their annihilation of Estonia last night, I expect France to beat England comfortably with only Joe Hart standing in the way of a cricket score.
Everyone beats Estonia....... of all the runners-up in qualifying who were in six-team pools, they finished with the fewest points......... the Boggies beat them 4-0 away in the play-off.
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 11:18 am
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After their annihilation of Estonia last night, I expect France to beat England comfortably with only Joe Hart standing in the way of a cricket score.
Ive got England down as the dark horses , no expectation this time and nothing to lose.

Nobody wants to play England in a major tournament
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 11:19 am
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An absolute joke. I could name you at least 12 countries better than England right now, but I won't.
Why not ?
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 11:21 am
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Originally Posted by co durham boy
Ive got England down as the dark horses , no expectation this time and nothing to lose.

Nobody wants to play England in a major tournament
I agree with that logic. So let's see, what other examples do we have of teams with zero expectations up front going all the way? Denmark and Greece for sure...
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The Euro's is arguably a tougher competition to win than the World Cup as there's not so many duff teams and the formats more intense so you really can't cruise through the group stage , so your basically playing knockout football from the outset .

You need to win from the start because the groups are so tough , i see that working in England's favour , it will not be pretty but it could be effective.

Tournament football is a mindset , it's never about your best eleven .

Well , that's what i'm believing
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 11:47 am
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Originally Posted by co durham boy
Why not ?
Would set off too much inane debate...Spain, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay immediately spring to mind.

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Would set off too much inane debate...Spain, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay immediately spring to mind.
Debatable............ but as Durham Boy says, how many of those (a) heave a sigh of relief when they know they have to play England next, and (b) how many of those would England find it impossible, under any circumstances, to beat? None and nil.

Hodgson has more European international experience than English club experience - we might just spring a surprise.

In The Times, Tony Cascarino thinks England will win the pool on goal diff (he's done a match-by-match score prediction jobby, and added them all up). But he's got Portugal beating England in the Semi, then losing to Spain in the Final.
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Old Jun 6th 2012, 1:45 pm
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Would set off too much inane debate...Spain, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay immediately spring to mind.
I agree with the usual suspects but Mexico , Chile , Russia and Uruguay no way and i'd rank England just as good as Italy , France and Portugal .
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Reasons why inviting Poland/Ukraine to host this thing was a mistake:

No 1: Neo-Nazi racist thugs masquerading as fans.

No 2: 13 of top 18 nations in FIFA's global rankings will be at Euro 2012. Only Czech Rep (27) Ukraine (52) and Poland (62) are higher.
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Where's a good place to watch the footy near west bay/diplomatic area? I've been the Irish bar before but it was way too smoky for my liking.
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