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2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA 14th June - 15th July

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SausageVince said:
It's nights like this that I wish I was in a mock Tudor beer garden in the home counties. Surrounded. Jubilant.
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You just don’t get what it means to be English. A parallel if I may - it’s like sitting in Shugs Bar waiting for the result of a referendum that you desperately want to win, but you know, deep down, it’s never going to happen. Group stage matches are like that - an extremely unreliable indicator of popular trends, but until the overall result is known it isn’t cause for jubilation. We’re all guilty of it mate.
 
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Finally we get the rub of the green! Well-deserved win, despite the 2nd-half flat shitshow.
Some of the other guys have got to chip in with some goals though and stop relying on Kane.
Lingard was doing his best Sterling impression all night. Speaking of which, Sterling was very poor. Very over-rated in my eyes. Not good having a right-footer at LB.
Mix it up for the Panama game: Rose and Rashford have to start for me.
Onwards and upwards. So weird having a positive start to a tournament.
 
Joe Clash said:
You just don’t get what it means to be English. A parallel if I may - it’s like sitting in Shugs Bar waiting for the result of a referendum that you desperately want to win, but you know, deep down, it’s never going to happen. Group stage matches are like that - an extremely unreliable indicator of popular trends, but until the overall result is known it isn’t cause for jubilation. We’re all guilty of it mate.
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Even in their referendum Scotland didn’t make it out of the group.
 
I don’t think we can make the semis, but there are echoes of 1990 for me. That was the year I became a Spurs fan after constantly seeing Lineker, Gazza, and Waddle listed as Tottenham Hotspur players.

I can imagine there will be many children across the country watching this tournament for the first time and becoming Kane (and possibly Dele) fans by the end of it.
 
Jerry said:
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but England haven’t exactly been great in international tournaments over the last couple of decades or so.

If a team (of very young players) can’t go wild after scoring a late winner in a World Cup match, when can they? I think we played superbly up until the penalty, but kept going and got a deserved winner.

It’s not really painting over the cracks. It’s working with them and being pleased when despite the cracks you get to hang a great big fuck off painting of Kane winning the game in dramatic circumstances.

Oddly enough this game will probably do more to fire up the players and fans than a textbook 2-0 stroll in the park.
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I was referring to the first goal-over the top, Anyway just waiting for England to be knocked out , read all the aftermath nonsense and enjoy the fall out. Please enjoy the WC and support your team. Italy are not even there so I have to put up it and stomach any England sucess. Ill always watch.
 
Mr S Pippo said:
I was referring to the first goal-over the top, Anyway just waiting for England to be knocked out , read all the aftermath nonsense and enjoy the fall out. Please enjoy the WC and support your team. Italy are not even there so I have to put up it and stomach any England sucess. Ill always watch.
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How sad. Why would an Italian hate England?

Juve fan hating Liverpool? Fair enough but don't get it.

Not many English people hate Italy or Italians. We generally prefer you to a number of other European countries.

Weird.
 
Mr S Pippo said:
I was referring to the first goal-over the top, Anyway just waiting for England to be knocked out , read all the aftermath nonsense and enjoy the fall out. Please enjoy the WC and support your team. Italy are not even there so I have to put up it and stomach any England sucess. Ill always watch.
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Ah, let us have our fun. It’s short-lived!

All I ever ask from England is that we give it our best shot. If we fall short or fall foul of Lady Luck, so be it, but don’t just plod around looking utterly disinterested like we have in most international competitions. I have a feeling this team will buck the trend and actually be appreciated by the fans when we come home.

Shame about Italy. Doesn’t seem like a proper World Cup without them. Still...happy to see Sweden in it.
 
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