France to win without conceding, was available at Evens today. I have a decent sized amount riding on this.
How can you expect Leicesterland to stand a chance if they are not allowed to wear their normal all-blue kit ??
How unfair the French have a well rehearsed plan with all thier players aware of their role in the plan How can unrehearsed ad_libbers like England possibly compete
It's very understandable the attitude towards England but may I draw attention to England rugby. Last year England didn't qualify for the knockout stages and were number 8 in the world.......................................now look. Grand slam winners and 0-3 winners in Australia. The England cricket team has just thrashed Sri Lanka. If the rugby and cricket teams can be turned around so too can the football team. Now is the time to FORGET the past and look to the future;
There have been so many false dawns with England. 1966 is along time ago and since then I can only remember two occasions with Robson and Venables when we looked even close to do doing something. Not great is it.
We very nearly beat Argentina even with 10 men under Hoddle. That team had a lot of potential. This England XI (I won't use the term "team" as that would not be good English), is nowhere near as bad as it seemed against Iceland. As was pointed out, we've beaten all the potential semi-finalists recently, which only goes to prove the value of a good manager. All the talk of the players not being good enough is illogical rubbish since they play for top premier teams, because if they were no good they simply wouldn't get a game - while players that play for Iceland but for lesser clubs aren't as good players, they simply have a better team (and manager). The fact that we beat those semi-finalists really proves Roy didn't know what he was doing. Other managers, when handed the good fortune of a winning formula go with it. After - perhaps accidentally - discovering what was probably his best team against Germany, they then didn't play together again! (Such was the frantic desire to get Rooney and the out of form or recently injured into the team.) Good (lucky?) managers find the formula, realise they've found it, and stick with it. Roy wasn't "loyal" he was stubborn.
Roy has gone as he should have following that awful world cup £4m a year 4 years and circa 57 games The first priority now should be the removal of the FA selection team who allowed that dire sequence to happen But as the FA prefer ex-fixture secretaries to ex---England internationals we cannot be hopeful of positive outcome
