England should qualify from that group easily with the players at our disposal. Also, they should be able to put up a decent showing at France 2016. Smaller but better managed nations will do. There was easily enough talent to progress through the World Cup group stages, but the national side was mismanaged before and during the tournament. It’s difficult to compare but teams like Costa Rica, Algeria, Switzerland, USA managed to negotiate the group stage. To cap it all, Hodgson had the indignity to patronise Costa Rica by saying we ‘avoided a banana skin’ after drawing with them in the pointless game.
I said the other day that the Argies would likely be comfortable winners against Germany tonight. They're 2-0 up.
US is one up against the Czechs. Klinsman said today that anything less than a semi final appearance next World Cup will be considered a failure.
Admirable ambition and correct. Whilst we'll be force fed all the ****ing positives of abject failure again.
