"France coach Laurent Blanc took a swipe at England by suggesting a "really good side" would have punished their under-performance in Monday's 1-1 draw." " Blanc said: "Regardless of who starts they just need to relax because we can't repeat the first 30 minutes against England." "If we had played against a really good side it would have been over." I guess a REALLY good side loses to sweden 0-2 . And the poor one BEATS sweden 3-2 . big gob , egg on face . .
Clearly he wasn't claiming that France were a really good side. And yes, the result yesterday just shows that this wasn't some quality, resurgent France team that we parked the plane infront of, which has been suggested.
I see you voted in the poll for a Ukraine win . Was that another accidental vote ? Like the sweden one .
Maybe he was just being honest and saying he thought that's what would happen even though he wanted england to win. Nothing wrong with that- I would have voted for a draw.
No nothing wrong with that , thats why i asked him the question . I voted for the sweden win too... and NOT accidentally . I just thought it was strange to vote that england would lose BOTH matches. ???????
I used to bet on England losing on the basis that my tipping is so ****e it might have helped them - it worked now and again as well
Not that time. As I wrote in the thread, I thought we'd lose 2-1 and would do well to draw 1-1. Didn't happen in the end which I was surprised and pleased about
