[Shaun]

Even Tunisia gave us a really strong defence, I think it's pretty naive to write off anyone that isn't in the circle of "France/Brazil/Argentina/Spain/Germany" as a "not decent" team especially in this world cup, where Mexico and South Korea have humiliated Germany, Iceland have humiliated Argentina, Japan have come close to knocking Belgium out, Sweden topped a group including Germany...

To me the only "bad" teams at this world cup were Saudi Arabia, Panama, Costa Rica, Egypt and Poland (which is odd because Poland are usually great) even the likes of Morocco, Iran and Australia put up some great performances... it's probably what's made this the most enjoyable world cup in my lifetime, for me.

But yeah, England knocked out 2 teams that finished top of their groups, and pretty good groups at that.

[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Even Tunisia gave us a really strong defence, I think it's pretty naive to write off anyone that isn't in the circle of "France/Brazil/Argentina/Spain/Germany" as a "not decent" team especially in this world cup, where Mexico and South Korea have humiliated Germany, Iceland have humiliated Argentina, Japan have come close to knocking Belgium out, Sweden topped a group including Germany...

To me the only "bad" teams at this world cup were Saudi Arabia, Panama, Costa Rica, Egypt and Poland (which is odd because Poland are usually great) even the likes of Morocco, Iran and Australia put up some great performances... it's probably what's made this the most enjoyable world cup in my lifetime, for me.

But yeah, England knocked out 2 teams that finished top of their groups, and pretty good groups at that.

Yeah exactly, plus those matches against Columbia and Sweden are the exact sort of games where we have completely blown it in recent years. So many people revelling in England going out (not on here btw, but on FB/Twitter) because we've all been so 'cocky' but they're kinda misunderstanding what the whole 'It's Coming Home' thing was about which wasn't about being the greatest or thinking we were the best team in the world, it was just about enjoying having a side that everyone could get behind for once and genuinely enjoy watching their progress. The atmosphere in the country the last two weeks is something I've not seen before, had always said in the past that I'd prefer club success to country but this tournament has completely changed that

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Even Tunisia gave us a really strong defence, I think it's pretty naive to write off anyone that isn't in the circle of "France/Brazil/Argentina/Spain/Germany" as a "not decent" team especially in this world cup, where Mexico and South Korea have humiliated Germany, Iceland have humiliated Argentina, Japan have come close to knocking Belgium out, Sweden topped a group including Germany...

To me the only "bad" teams at this world cup were Saudi Arabia, Panama, Costa Rica, Egypt and Poland (which is odd because Poland are usually great) even the likes of Morocco, Iran and Australia put up some great performances... it's probably what's made this the most enjoyable world cup in my lifetime, for me.

But yeah, England knocked out 2 teams that finished top of their groups, and pretty good groups at that.

It's offensive how some people are trying to dismiss our achievements and downplay how good our opposition was (with the exception of Panama)