World Cup 2018 Qualifiers

There were a few on here who picked Dele if we could sign someone from our PL rivals.

Massively overrated footballer.
 
Terrible performance at home against a weak opposition.

Lol. A win against the 2nd strongest team in the group can never be described as "terrible performance". Especially not when coming from behind to take all the points.

Moaners want to moan ...
 
Rashford isn't a good enough footballer to ever be truly elite. He'll be a useful player but he just doesn't quite have 'it'. Kane is a good poacher, good poachers don't qualify as elite. You put Harry Kane in the Barca or RM team, he sticks out like a sore thumb, wouldn't be able to link play well enough or provide the occasional bit of magic necessary. Put Rashford in the Barca or RM team, he'd stick out like a sore thumb, he'd combine moments of brilliance because of his pace with many frustrating moments where he doesn't use the ball well enough or makes the wrong decisions/wrong passes. Put Alli in there, he'd play at that level, imo.
???? Kane isn't a poacher and position means diddly when it comes to who's elite or not. Gerd Muller??

I keep looking for white text
 
Last edited:
We know what we'll get. Qualify and then once we get to the world cup, we play shite and get kicked out early. Rinse and repeat.
But you will qualify with comfort and not being under pressure for the remaining 2 matches to know if you get the first or second place, would like to be on that position tbf.
Probably because we know what will happen as usual. We are the Arsenal of internal football.
If you don't demand they achieve the same as France, Brasil or Germany you will not suffer with expectations.
 
But you will qualify with comfort and not being under pressure for the remaining 2 matches to know if you get the first or second place, would like to be on that position tbf.

If you don't demand they achieve the same as France, Brasil or Germany you will not suffer with expectations.
We're not demanding this. However, we do expect them to beat Iceland (no disrespect to them).
 
But you will qualify with comfort and not being under pressure for the remaining 2 matches to know if you get the first or second place, would like to be on that position tbf.

If you don't demand they achieve the same as France, Brasil or Germany you will not suffer with expectations.
Not expecting them to win it. However the way they are portrayed by the press and in a way how some present themselves to the public I would expect them to be at least competitive.
 
That was a good test for England so fair play I thought they recovered well and managed the result nicely by end. Alli was ordinary and Kane should pass the ball once in a while.
 
Christ, the quality of punditry on ITV is shocking.
"Gavin, what was wrong with the England performance?"
"It's all dem foriners playing for us, innit?"
 
"Gavin, what was wrong with the England performance?"
"It's all dem foriners playing for us, innit?"

:lol:

Hate to say it but Giggs is really bad at this. Challenging Shearer for bordom but doesn't seem natural at the job.
 
But you will qualify with comfort and not being under pressure for the remaining 2 matches to know if you get the first or second place, would like to be on that position tbf.

If you don't demand they achieve the same as France, Brasil or Germany you will not suffer with expectations.

Ironically, the expectation is always there. I meant they may not expect to win the tournament, but there is always a superior attitude against smaller countries that leading to some embarassment in the tournament regardless.
 
But that is exactly the problem, your media first demands them to get the same results as the best teams, then they qualify easily and then they demand England to dominate every opponent when atm you don't have the same individual quality as France, Brasil or Germany, those are the 3 teams that should be under pressure.
We're not demanding this. However, we do expect them to beat Iceland (no disrespect to them).
Ok, but the Iceland presented by your media or your fans knew is not the naive Iceland of 10 or 15 years ago, they developed well their youth football, sure England has to beat Iceland, but knowing it should not be easy to beat a team who put Holland out of the Euros, and by the way created a lot of problems to Portugal, Hungary or Austria.
 
This the worst England side in recent years, imo. They are even struggling to qualify, while they are usually good at it.
 
Ironically, the expectation is always there. I meant they may not expect to win the tournament, but there is always a superior attitude against smaller countries that leading to some embarassment in the tournament regardless.
This time they will not do it. :lol:
 
There were a few on here who picked Dele if we could sign someone from our PL rivals.

Massively overrated footballer.

There are more than a few on here who would pick half the Spurs team ... but never mind, they are all massively over-rated.
 
This the worst England side in recent years, imo. They are even struggling to qualify, while they are usually good at it.
No it isn't, they failed to qualify in 2008,1994, there is always a impression portrayed this is the worst England of all time, reality is that they had the same or even worst level teams in other tournaments.
 
But that is exactly the problem, your media first demands them to get the same results as the best teams, then they qualify easily and then they demand England to dominate every opponent when atm you don't have the same individual quality as France, Brasil or Germany, those are the 3 teams that should be under pressure.

Ok, but the Iceland presented by your media or your fans knew is not the naive Iceland of 10 or 15 years ago, they developed well their youth football, sure England has to beat Iceland, but knowing it should not be easy to beat a team who put Holland out of the Euros, and by the way created a lot of problems to Portugal, Hungary or Austria.
No I'm not saying it should be easy to beat Iceland. I don't believe you should underestimate any opponent. However our performance in that match was beyond inept. Our players and coaching staff should have been capable of doing much more (win or lose), and this is the problem. You know we should do better, but it's all bluster and nonsense and nothing seems to change. This is why a lot of fans have lost faith and expect nothing but crap once we get to the world cup.
 
Not sure why Alli was so perturbed. Contrary to what somebody posted earlier, I don't think he fits the hard man image. He should probably start hanging around with Lingard and learn to become a lovable scam. It's the right way.