***** Official England v France Thread *****

[Munkfish]

Well England won't win tonight anyway, just seen the game is on ITV.

 

[Falkor]

England team (from [MENTION=17094]IanD[/MENTION]ennisbbc): Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Gerrard, Parker, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Young, Welbeck

 

[hans kraay fan club]

That's the team I predicted over an hour ago.

And I predicted on FRIDAY...

Your England Team for Monday

 

[BensGrandad]

Ok other than Oxo Chamberpot.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Ok other than Oxo Chamberpot.

Why? He's the biggest PLUS in that selection, in my opinion.

 

[Silent Bob]

Well England won't win tonight anyway, just seen the game is on ITV.

Yeah but at least all the France goals will be during the adverts!

 

[Simster]

This is all over Twitter:

UK media reporting #Eng side to face #Fra: Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Parker, Gerrard, Ox-Chamberlain, Wellbeck, Young

Happy if so.

Likewise. That's as good a team as we could have hoped. The striker role was always going to be a bone of contention but I fancy either Carroll or Wellbeck to be more prolific than some of the strikers we've seen in this tournament so far.

 

[Giraffe]

I have a good feeling.

We are going to the tournament.

We may not win this match, but we will win the tournament.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I have a good feeling.
We are going to the tournament.

 

[Questions]

I knew this would happen. I,m starting to believe. Why oh why do I do it ?

 

[Springal]

Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Parker, Gerrard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Young, Welbeck.

confirmed starting XI

 

[Mackenzie]

Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Parker, Gerrard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Young, Welbeck.

confirmed starting XI

mmmmm.....what a lot of average players, never know though, the team may be greater than the sum of its parts.

ptimistic:

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Pretty decent XI to be fair, was worried we were going to start with Downing and Carroll.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I knew this would happen. I,m starting to believe. Why oh why do I do it ?

Fifteen minutes in usually cures that.

 

[Albumen]

Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Parker, Gerrard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Young, Welbeck.

confirmed starting XI

I don't think the French will too worried about that. Ribery and Benzima will have fun. If Oxelade is on his game we might give them a game.

 

[Questions]

Fifteen minutes in usually cures that.

Yes you are probably right but I,m just in the process of putting money on a convincing England win. It's an illness isn,t it ?
I do quite well with racing bets but always lose money on Brighton and England. Heart over head and all that.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

France may be good going forward but their defence is shakey at best, if we can isolate/mark out the game Benzema then we are in with a shot.

 

[BensGrandad]

Why? He's the biggest PLUS in that selection, in my opinion.

I wouldn't have started with him I would have started with Walcott and then unleashed Oxo on Evra 30 mins from the end as Evra isn't the quickest of the full backs when he starts let alone when he is tiring.

 

[Simster]

Fifteen minutes in usually cures that.

Twas ever thus. The team is announced, people get excited (unless someone truly crap is in there), we collectively decide HELL YEAH, WE CAN WIN THIS.

Then 5 or 6 minutes in, and the game settles into a familiar pattern of England being completely unable to hold the ball.

 

[Munkfish]

due to the inclusion of the OX i am now shitting myself with exitement, not been looking forward to this at all.

Time to stick on Vindaloo and get INVOLVED.