by sussexpob » Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:17 pm
Its a bit foolish to say England have performed badly at World Cups. Iceland match aside, we have often not lost game, simply drew them and lost on penalties. In the normal scope of football, were Germany better than us in 1990 because they won a round of Russian Roulette in a close game? Where they better than us in 1996 when in injury time we were inches away from scoring twice in a game we played them off the park? The Argentina game we were the better team until Simeone went down like he was shot and bought a red card, and they still couldnt beat us in normal time. We beat Argentina in the next world cup, and beat Germany in a competitive tournament inbetween. 2006- penalites. 2010, we scored a goal that crossed 2 meters over the line as was adjudged not to have, which would have made it 2-2. Lost to Italy on pens in 2012. Gave one of the best Brazilian teams ever a good run in 2002 but lost. These arent disgraces. We lost them, but mostly on lottery of penalties. And we have had some horrendous ref decisions. Last time out we got drawn in a group with 3 of the top 6 ranked teams in the world didnt we. Not getting much luck.
Not that this means I expect to win the world cup or do well. You seem to confuse the point, Yuppie.
There is clearly a difference between beating Germany in a World Cup, and playing a home leg against an island nation of 50000 people with no talent, and scrapping to a 2-0 win. Yes, we should be hammering teams like Malta. Belgium scored over 20 goals vs Gibraltar without trying.
Arsenal fans may not expect to win the Premier League, but if they turned up with a full team away to Mansfield in the cup and forced a replay after Cech kept them in the tie, they would be right for criticising the performance
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