Euro 2016

[Gullflyinghigh]

It's not the winning but who is remotely interested in watching those games ? Who will pay for advertising on ITV when they show the games when they know England games have no interest by the majority anymore

Which majority is it that you're speaking for? Considering the amount of coverage in all forms of the media, and the numerous discussions on here, it's probably a safe bet that England games still matter to many people.

My only real issue watching England is having to endure Adrian 'Honestly I'm not a potato in a shirt' Chiles.

 

[atfc village]

Was it 1990? Linekar!

England 3 Denmark 0 World cup 2nd round 2002.

 

[BensGrandad]

Must be one of the easiest groups to qualify from

 

[Mellotron]

How could you not qualify in a group like that - that's part of the problem, we always seem to get a relatively easy qualifying group and then fall apart when we get there

Eh? We're one of the best teams in Europe at actually qualifying for tournaments. It's how we do when we get there that's the problem.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The Swiss are not that good, they are 6th in the world because they had the easiest World Cup group qualification group.

 

[Husty]

Switzerland will run us close for top spot. With our defense as it is right now I can see us finishing second. Anything lower would be an unmitigated disaster in this group though.

 

[Munkfish]

Many of us questioned how the Swiss were above us in the rankings and so were seeded for the world cup. I guess this explains it. When did we last score 3 goals in a game at a World Cup?

Denmark 2002?

 

[London Irish]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...optimism-about-euro-2016-begins-2014062688019

 

[Uncle Buck]

Was it 1990? Linekar!

2002 against Denmark?

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Top 2 automatically qualify. Best 3rd place team qualifies and then rest of the 3rd place teams play in a seeded play offs.

We will qualify for a fact.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

The Swiss are not that good, they are 6th in the world because they had the easiest World Cup group qualification group.

I thoguht i'd heard commentators saying in the past that the Swiss play a lot of international games (and a lot of friendlies too) but against fairly poor opposition and therefore rack up a lot of FIFA ranking points.

Seem to remember teams like the USA being ranked quite highly and they had quite a few players with 100 or more caps.

We don't play as many games so miss out on ranking points because of it, and we are always chopping and changing our side (players drop out due to injury, etc) that we never seem to have a self selecting 1st IX line up, but thats another topic for discussion at another time.

 

[maltaseagull]

I thoguht i'd heard commentators saying in the past that the Swiss play a lot of international games (and a lot of friendlies too) but against fairly poor opposition and therefore rack up a lot of FIFA ranking points.

Seem to remember teams like the USA being ranked quite highly and they had quite a few players with 100 or more caps.

We don't play as many games so miss out on ranking points because of it, and we are always chopping and changing our side (players drop out due to injury, etc) that we never seem to have a self selecting 1st IX line up, but thats another topic for discussion at another time.

I am sure there was some truth in Harry's comments about injuries. It's amazing how many players are injured for International friendlies but fit for their clubs the next match. This cannot help with continuity but to be fair I guess other countries have similar problems.

 

[Giraffe]

Of course we will qualify. The Swiss are in a bloody easy group and are being made to look good.

We would beat them if we played them now and I'm confident we will beat them when we play them.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

England 3 Denmark 0 World cup 2nd round 2002.

Denmark 2002?

Yep. My memory is going...I am only remembering long ago occurrences. Worrying really.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Agincourt all over again
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DR