Manc

I fell off my chair laughing though.

Lord Lionheart

And England will still barely scrape through the group stages, after the usual big build up, we can do it this year, we mean business this time etc. etc. etc.

Manc

draw against Paraguay
give Trinidad a bit of a twatting
draw against Sweden.

finish second in the group.
get beat by the Jerries in the second round.

Patrick

With your eyes

Lord Lionheart

Don't forget about the thousands of references to 1966 in the newspapers and TV, and Rooney will blow a gasket and get sent off in a game - Sweden probably, after getting frustrated by their shite performances in the 2 previous games.

Manc

with this piece of paper, 5-1 in Munich, blah blah blah.
General Daily Mirror Jingoism.

Still I thought they had a good chance in Italy in 1990, I have the same strange feeling this time out.

still....

Lord Lionheart

The daily Mirror will discover Sven has never attended an England game, he is in bed shagging and has been using a cardboard cut-out in his place at the games, he shamefully attends England's last group game, but the cardboard cut-out is found to have superior tactics.
Michael Owen falls over a record 297 times in a game, but still manages to score 4 goals.

Manc

but begins the next game on the bench and Peter Crouch gets his place.

Lord Lionheart

England play in their red shirts, which on closer examination are actually found to be a Liverpool NOT England shirts, in the hope of getting Stevie Gerrard to play a decent game for his country

cutina

My fella seems to think that his Italy are in the 'group of death'. Am i alone in thinking he's overdoing it a bit?

He says England have it easy, and he asked if i'll still love him if italy beat us in the final.... i think he's loosing it

Lord Lionheart

Italy the 1-0 experts of Europe. Haven't done anything interesting since Schillaci played, apart from Baggio's silly haircut while missing penalties.

cutina

what he wrote was

germany 1-3 italy
brazil 2-3 england


italy 2-1 england


thinks he's funny... doesn't even know the half of it!

Lord Lionheart

Well the Brazil 2 England 3 bit is pretty funny

Bob

Penalties to boot

Circus-of-Power

face it .. England will get to the semi final play Upper Volta (yes I already know) lose 5-4 om penalties and we can dream once again