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Hang on Kane is generally seen as one of the best strikers in the world, Sterling is just coming off a 23 goal season as one of the stars of a Man City team who cruised to the title, they are not bang average players. We have quite a few average players in our team but that's the case for pretty much every international team

[Mystic Mock]

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)

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Not wishing to burst any bubbles but each and every member of the team is bang average at best, and they are not going to get significantly better as individuals than they are now. So, given that, why would they do any better in future tournaments?

Are you seriously trying to say that Harry Kane is average? Mbappe could only wish to score as many goals as Kane.

[bitontheslide]

Imagine being so certain of England's footballing greatness you decided to get a permanent tattoo celebrating the Three Lions winning the World Cup.

So confident were you, you scorned the idea of tattooing the visage of an admired player or a patriotic trio of lions. No, you decided to have the date added, along with the proclamation: "World Cup Winners".

And then it all went wrong. What now?

The left thigh of Teddy Allen currently sports a drawing of Harry Kane's delighted and slightly-shocked face.

Crowned with the words "Sir Harry", it is cradled in the sentence: "World Cup Winners 2018".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44805960

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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Imagine being so certain of England's footballing greatness you decided to get a permanent tattoo celebrating the Three Lions winning the World Cup.

So confident were you, you scorned the idea of tattooing the visage of an admired player or a patriotic trio of lions. No, you decided to have the date added, along with the proclamation: "World Cup Winners".

And then it all went wrong. What now?

The left thigh of Teddy Allen currently sports a drawing of Harry Kane's delighted and slightly-shocked face.

Crowned with the words "Sir Harry", it is cradled in the sentence: "World Cup Winners 2018".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44805960

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how ridiculous to do that, mind you it will be a permanent reminder not to count your chickens..