by matelot » Sat Jul 14, 2018 7:44 am
by theHotHead » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:15 am
Ach wrote:So we can't be good. The other team has to be crap. Dear god.
by Nuggets » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:20 am
theHotHead wrote:Ach wrote:So we can't be good. The other team has to be crap. Dear god.
Sweden had no teeth. 1 goal in 2 knockout games and not many shots. And in any case I didn't say they were shit, I said they were an average team on England's level. I don't think thr England performance was out of this world and yes I watched it. A good solid professional performance full of energy. But not great.
by DialSquaregooner » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:20 pm
by Nuggets » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:23 pm
DialSquaregooner wrote:Harry kane been banging on endlessly this wc that the squad are winners is laughable, only a few in the squad have medals on their cv. He should keep quiet more.
by matelot » Sun Jul 15, 2018 9:27 am
by theHotHead » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:42 am
by starmandb » Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:16 pm
Phil71 wrote:Angelito wrote:Btw, HotHead, I get what you're saying, however, think about it this way.
If Arsenal won the UCL, by avoiding Barca, Real, Bayern, Atleti, and Juve through some incredible anomaly, would we care? On top of that, if we ended up beating Partizan Belgrade in the final, who'd care?
We'd still have lucked out. And we may not have won it if we had faced the big boys, but as fans we would surely lose our shit. And we'd have overachieved still because if luck weren't in our side, we'd have been smashed by the favorites.
Yes, a SF isn't as good as winning the whole thing, but we've never had a fluke World Cup winner. Well not since England in 1966? I don't know.
Brazil, West Germany, Argentina, Italy, France, and Spain.
If Croatia wins it this year, it'll be the first that a non-favorite would have won the World Cup. Meanwhile, clubs have fluked out a win in the UCL.
So, SFs of a WC is pretty incredible - no matter how you achieve it. England weren't great but they did what they had to do.
Well nobody would.
But to play devil's advocate, if Arsenal were knocked out in the semi finals by a team 16 places beneath them in the UEFA rankings, people would say it was embarrassing.
They certainly wouldn't say we had had a great campaign.