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

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paddygspur said:
Croydon flip in mental

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It’s what it all comes down to. Not just entertainment but memories, joy, raw emotions.

We’re the least likely of the last four to actually go on to win the bloody thing, but for now it’s a party atmosphere across England and I’m loving it. I think a lot of people underestimate just how much a World Cup win would lift this country. Christ...there’d be a national holiday just to celebrate never having to harp on about ‘66 ever again.

The UK and England does pretty well in sporting events generally (Olympics, F1, Tennis, erm...darts?), but football is the national sport. For too long it’s been a case of having a great league but mediocre or underperforming home grown players.

This team isn’t full of egotistical racists and adulterers; it’s a likeable group of young guys who seem genuinely passionate about playing for their country. Their attitude and Southgate’s management has helped take them to the Semi-Finals of the World Cup, and it feels like a reward and excuse for national pride in and of itself.

I think we have a chance against Croatia, but that France or Belgium have too much quality and depth to really believe we’ll win it. Whatever happens, the English (and the less partisan Spurs fans) have reason to be enjoying the party. Happy days!
 
Joe Clash said:
Ha ha. It’s not going to be like Italia 90. The team will get crucified for anything less than winning it and crucified on here by the likes of Ossie Wembley for not winning it with style. In fact winning it would only cause more argument. ‘Worst World Cup ever - worst golden boot ever’. You know it mate.
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Gaaaaaaaaaah.

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But fuck it, if we manage to beat Croatia then at least we'll have four days of the Scots absolutely shitting themselves on the off-chance we somehow pull it off.

Before France smash us and they act as if that makes us shit.
:pochbye:
 
Joe Clash said:
Ha ha. It’s not going to be like Italia 90. The team will get crucified for anything less than winning it and crucified on here by the likes of Ossie Wembley for not winning it with style. In fact winning it would only cause more argument. ‘Worst World Cup ever - worst golden boot ever’. You know it mate.
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Maybe I’m being naive, but I think for this tournament at least the tide has turned, and the English media will celebrate our achievements.

Not that their illiterate collectives of old boy network journalists would actually want to praise the team, but all rat bastard journalists know to head where the wind is blowing, and the national mood is one of optimism and confusion in experiencing a proper summer for the first time since the late 1800s. I honestly expect the team to be cheered as heroes when they return to England, regardless of what happens next week.
 
SausageVince said:
I cannot fucken wait for tomorrow. No matter what happens it’s going to be great.

If England crashes out then the normal service of a broken, impotent English nation will resume.
If England manages to go through then the hysteria will be fucken comic as they hurtle head long towards semi final heart break.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
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Please keep doing what you're doing. It's a key ingredient of this epic world cup
 
Joe Clash said:
The bloke is a joke. Every single post in the ‘annoy you’ thread is about his ‘wife’ not making him a cup of tea, or not mowing the lawn, or not chivvying up his fragile Scottish ego, or not devoting her entire life to stroking his enormous Scottish backside. Backward cunt.
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Not ‘Scottish’. It’s ‘Scotch’. The Scotch prefer to be known as the Scotch. Like the tape. Or the weird eggs. Or their cheap knockoff version of whiskey.

I’m a big fan of the Scotch. Liberal enough to wear dresses and hate the Tories, but with little quirks like believing in prehistoric self-breeding sea monsters, battered Mars Bars, and anthropomorphised national dishes made of lamb intestines and hard drugs. They also invented gingers and The Krankies, as depicted on a series of murals carved by Robert the Bruce Burns on Adrian’s Wall.

Seriously though, this is a country that created bagpipes for no other reason than to irritate people. Being bitter WUMs is in their northern Geordie blood.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
You know what, funny as that is - aside from being fucking amazing in general, England winning the WC would do wonders for the mentality of the Spurs players in the squad.
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It would go a long way towards alleviating the pressure on going elsewhere to win something. If Kane wins the World Cup he’ll be a demigod.

We’ve got a 3/4 chance of having a World Cup winning player in our team next season anyway. Either way, I think having so many players in the last 4 will do wonders for our mentality.
 
Jerry said:
It would go a long way towards alleviating the pressure on going elsewhere to win something. If Kane wins the World Cup he’ll be a demigod.

We’ve got a 3/4 chance of having a World Cup winning player in our team next season anyway. Either way, I think having so many players in the last 4 will do wonders for our mentality.
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You see 'demigod', I see the press insisting that our World-Cup-winning captain deserves to win the league elsewhere.
:pocheyes:

Anyway. What a wonderful problem to have that would be. Let's say no more, lest the scots think we're saying we're actually gonna win it.
 
Jerry said:
It’s what it all comes down to. Not just entertainment but memories, joy, raw emotions.

We’re the least likely of the last four to actually go on to win the bloody thing, but for now it’s a party atmosphere across England and I’m loving it. I think a lot of people underestimate just how much a World Cup win would lift this country. Christ...there’d be a national holiday just to celebrate never having to harp on about ‘66 ever again.

The UK and England does pretty well in sporting events generally (Olympics, F1, Tennis, erm...darts?), but football is the national sport. For too long it’s been a case of having a great league but mediocre or underperforming home grown players.

This team isn’t full of egotistical racists and adulterers; it’s a likeable group of young guys who seem genuinely passionate about playing for their country. Their attitude and Southgate’s management has helped take them to the Semi-Finals of the World Cup, and it feels like a reward and excuse for national pride in and of itself.

I think we have a chance against Croatia, but that France or Belgium have too much quality and depth to really believe we’ll win it. Whatever happens, the English (and the less partisan Spurs fans) have reason to be enjoying the party. Happy days!
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I think we'd beat Belgium
I'm worried about the French though
 
Fuck me, that was great game. Playing with just 2 midfilders was wrong. Badelj instead of Brozovic against England.
Modric and Rakitic against Henderson and Lingaard. England is fucked, gotta change formation.

We have character. We are going to final. Sorry.
 
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