Where will England finish in Group D?

[Trigger]

Uruguay game is on my birthday, what a great present, getting knocked out of the world cup.

 

[The Wookiee]

we are crap so dont care

The final table in qualifying would suggest otherwise

 

[The Wookiee]

Uruguay game is on my birthday, what a great present, getting knocked out of the world cup.

Probably to compound the misery, Gus Poyet will probably be the chosen pundit for this match !!

 

[blue2]

I have more hope than most on here and think it could be a tight group with Costa Coffee holding the key I think we will finish second behind Uruguay

 

[Frutos]

It's a soft draw.... anything less than second is a disgrace. Football talent is normally distributed, and Uruguay's about half the the size of London.

By that reckoning, we should look forward to China, India, the USA and Indonesia (as the four countries with the highest population) in the Semi-Finals then....oh.

 

[Icy Gull]

3rd, both Uruguay and Italy will have too much for us. We might beat Costa Rica but even that's not a given.

 

[banjo]

Voted runners up but don't have much faith in the England team these days.

 

[Notters]

2nd - as that means there'll be a match slap bang in the middle of my wedding reception.

 

[stugbhafc1]

Italy 1-1 England
Uruguay 2-1 England
Costa Rica 0-2 England
Scrape through in 2nd.

 

[W.C.]

I predict the Italy vs England game to be the dullest game of the whole tournament.

Hopefully we can nick a point from it.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

England vs Italy - 1-1
Uruguay vs Costa Rica - 3-0

England vs Uruguay - 2-1
Italy vs Costa Rica - 4-0

England Costa Rica - 3-1
Italy vs Uruguay - 2-3

England 7 points
Uruguay 6 Points
Italy 4 Points
Costa Rica 0 points

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

3rd but could end up bottom if Costa Rica can scrape another draw from their other two games.

 

[1066familyman]

That will explain how Uruguay have won 2 World Cups to England's 1 despite their major differences in population and how they came to reach the semi-finals in 2010 and won their continental tournament the following year, despite having (I would anticipate) the smallest population out of any country in South America that is in the CONMEBOL. Also using your logic, by now, China should be world beaters every World Cup rather than being a country that hasn't actually played in the finals tournament for 15 years. It would also mean Ukraine and Poland would be dead certs to qualify rather than such minnow ghost countries as Belgium and Bosnia. Far too simplistic to think population size gives you some kind of guarantee of success.

The reason Uruguay produce great footballers is because football is ingrained in the country's national culture and so children play the game in the street over there from a young age and quickly build their technique. Don't really have many street footballers in England these days, do we? All to do with green spaces being taken away and parents being sucked in by 'stranger danger' and paedophile hysteria.

Whoa there!, hang on just a cotton picking minute!

You forgot to mention our wonderful grass roots footballing culture over here that means kids no longer playing in the streets have the very best possible start to their footballing lives.....................oh, hang on just a minute...........



Sorry, as you were.

 

[Dusty_Fryer]

Has anyone been to the Sea-Life Centre and asked the psychic sea-creature du jour - perhaps a clairvoyant clam or a mystic mussel?

 

[hybrid_x]

i think we will scrape thro, then play well and gel.....only to get 0-5 hammered in the semis.

this is silly tho......2 defeats and a draw.

 

[Hiney]

1st

Italy 1 England 2
Costa Rica 0 England 4
Uruguay 1 England 3

Nurse. He's at it again. Nurse.

I will ALWAYS be relentlessly optimistic about England's chances. It's how I was brought up.

 

[Durlston]

The group games won't be completed as a couple of England players will be struck down with malaria and rabies, which are very common in the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus. Bookies could offer odds on what will bite first - mosquitoes, a wild dog or Luis Suarez.

 

[T soprano]

The group games won't be completed as a couple of England players will be struck down with malaria and rabies, which are very common in the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus. Bookies could offer odds on what will bite first - mosquitoes, a wild dog or Luis Suarez.

England fans have been told to be on their guard during their trip to Manaus, which is located right in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.

"It's possible to meet alligators at night," a pamphlet from Manaus' tourist board says.

 

[GT49er]

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[MattBackHome]

Lose to Italy, beat Uruguay and beat Costa Rica = 6 points. So 2nd.