England's World Cup chances

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I'm starting to think Hugh's account has been hacked.
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mushy wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:00 pm You really think all Sterling offers are tap ins?
It's his pace and ball holding skills that are important in this match (same with Saka).
Having said that I don't think he will change the front three.
I do, Yes.

He had a decent goal return when playing for City and having De brunye serving him tap in after tap in every game. Funnily enough when he leaves and goes to Chelsea the goals have dried up massively

Personally I wouldn't be trusting him in such an important match, where chances are likely to be at a premium & we need to be as clinical as possible.
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I'm not Sterling's biggest fan and have always found him quite difficult to judge, as sometimes he can look a poor footballer but then you look at his stats and they are hard to argue again. However, he was clearly one of our best players in the recent Euro's and has typically done very well for England over the last 4-5 years. I'm not sure I would start him but not having him in the squad is a miss.

As for the apparent cover story, that is clearly absolute nonsense.
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Hugh Jargon wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:33 pm LOL. Sterling abandones his teammates because his house was burgled and nobody was harmed.

I though someone was dead or close to it.

Unbelievable. Southgate is as soft as ****.
Being reported as an armed robbery (armed theft from an occupied building), not a burglary (unarmed theft from an empty building). That there was no lasting physical harm will be of scant consolation, I expect it was a horrible ordeal for those involved.
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Apologies all. The media report I read made it sound like someone had nicked his lawnmower out of the shed. Obviously more serious than that 🙄
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This is my view. The highly paid billy big bucks are mostly primadonna sooks.
Look at the success of the Asian teams...Japan, South Korea and Australia. All got out of group stages embarrassing teams like spain, denmark, germany who boast a litany of highly paid superstars.
It's the gritty nobodys who are superfit athletes whose reward is simply playing for their countries.
When a superstar bigboy gets a taste of massive cash and egos it makes me wonder how hard they put in and instead wave arms and roll around on the floor.
Ha Ha... Japan just scored
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Downunderhammerfan wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:12 pm instead wave arms and roll around on the floor.
You know you've literally just described South Korea's Captain. ;)

Gritty nobodies? Maybe the Aussie team but don't over half the Japanese team play in the top euro leagues? They are not lower league plodders.
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Downunderhammerfan wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:12 pm This is my view. The highly paid billy big bucks are mostly primadonna sooks.
Look at the success of the Asian teams...Japan, South Korea and Australia. All got out of group stages embarrassing teams like spain, denmark, germany who boast a litany of highly paid superstars.
It's the gritty nobodys who are superfit athletes whose reward is simply playing for their countries.
When a superstar bigboy gets a taste of massive cash and egos it makes me wonder how hard they put in and instead wave arms and roll around on the floor.
Ha Ha... Japan just scored
Australia and Japan are already out and Korea are two down against Brazil within 15 mins. Grit and determination only get you so far.
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floydie_hammer wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:15 pm Australia and Japan are already out and Korea are two down against Brazil within 15 mins. Grit and determination only get you so far.
And Brazil have plenty of grit and determination to go with a bucket load of skill
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Hugh Jargon wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:33 pm LOL. Sterling abandones his teammates because his house was burgled and nobody was harmed.

I though someone was dead or close to it.

Unbelievable. Southgate is as soft as ****.
This is the equivalent of a daily mail comment. Cringe af.
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France will be too strong for us , i make us about 4 th likely to win Brazil, Spain and the French depending on the draw.
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61dicksey wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:41 pm France will be too strong for us , i make us about 4 th likely to win Brazil, Spain and the French depending on the draw.
Are you literally going to splurge your misery on every thread on this forum? :rofl:
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jabbaglob123 wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:47 pm Are you literally going to splurge your misery on every thread on this forum? :rofl:
He's not wrong though.
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jabbaglob123 wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:47 pm Are you literally going to splurge your misery on every thread on this forum? :rofl:
one comment is splurging is it?
I think France will have too much for us , it is my opinion , love to be wrong.
oh! and Three Lions is a **** song and every pissed up prick coming out of the pub after England winning a game spouts it, so no apology there . :grin:
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Id be interested to see what the French are all saying about their chances vs England right now.

After all, they have a long history of getting their derrières handed to them by England.
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sendô wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:22 pm Id be interested to see what the French are all saying about their chances vs England right now.

After all, they have a long history of getting their derrières handed to them by England.
I can try to make a press review tomorrow, if you want.

I just scanned L'Équipe website headlines, but they don't talk much about England.
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We like you here Misko, could you at least lie a little bit?
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Jonah wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:53 pm We like you here Misko, could you at least lie a little bit?
Well, I'll wrap it with a nice ribbon. I need to get access to the paid content to see what they really say, the headlines are just click baits, and no English player is good material for that at the moment. I reckon it is actually a good thing.
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If we can overcome France on Saturday then why not go all the way.
There's obviously some very good teams still in the competition, but we are good aswell.

I'm not a fan of Brazil
Far to showy for me, and I can see a very good team beating them.
Remember the Brazil of 1982, they were also very "showbiz" but they got found out by the eventual winners italy.

So beat France and I see us going all the way.
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Ultimately we will beat ourselves.

It's the English way.
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