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I've just had a little play with the BBC predictor ...and this is what I came up with:
Sat 12th June – England 2 1 USA
Fri 18th June – England 3 0 Algeria
Wed 23rd June – England 3 1 Slovenia
estimated knockout stage games
Sat 26th June (last 16) – England 3 1 Australia (or maybe Ghana at a push; same result)
Fri 2nd July (quarter finals) – England 2 0 France
Tue 6th July (semi finals) – England 1 0 Brazil
Sun 11th July (finals) – England 4 2 Spain
..they think it's all over ...it is now.
anyone else?
Ratso still think we are in with a chance ?
Same old England, do our very best to self destruct and turn a winning situation into a draw.
Shouldn't our players at this level and against teams like US be scoring more than 1 goal ?
Hmmm, good point BabelFish. The only thing I would add to my prediction is some of the draws will change.
Spain are no longer going to make it through to the next round. They'll get a 0-0 draw against Chile and the final nail in the coffin will be a 7-0 defeat to Honduras, who will play most of the game with only 9 men, after 2 red cards.
Argentina will be beaten by New Zealand in the Semi Final and the winner of that match will meet either England or Brazil (50/50) in the final.
Tough call between England, Brazil or New Zealand to win the WC this year.
At least it won't be France 😆 😆 😆
Ah! No! You see, I believe England will still meet "The French Résistance" in the quarter finals, after they have made a few basic changes to the squad.
Thierry Henry will withdraw on medical grounds after having his left hand cut off by enraged papists.
William Gallas will capitulate 10 minutes before full time in the next match; sitting down in the middle of the pitch and weeping openly, he will deny ever having sided with the gunners and claim to have been blue all his life
Nikolas Anelka will become a mercenary and sell himself to the highest bidder
Frank Ribery will openly declare himself a German and deny ever considering a life anywhere else
Florent Malouda will move to "Gay Paree" and become a hair stylist
Djibril Cisse & Bacary Sagna will both die after a horrible head-melting incident, resulting from over exposure to bleaching products.
The remaining players will be rallied by a man, known only as Zizou, brandishing the head of 'Eric The Great' on a stick and marching under a 'Croix de Lorraine'. They will call themselves 'The Résistance'.
However, they will meet there Waterloo, once again at the hands of the English, on July 2nd in the quarter finals.
OK - this isn't quite going as predicted. It seems that our new route to World Cup glory is:
Germany Argentina Spain Brazil. 😕
Still, at least we got through ...and, hey, how hard can it be.
Germany: Two world wars. We won.
Argentina: Falklands. We won.
Spain: The armada. We won.
Brazil: Hmmm ...tricky ...I can't think of one ...but we would have won ...on paper.
Don't mention the ... oops, nearly said it 😳
With the group stages nearly over it is looking like a Brazil Argentina final - Maradona is stealing the show again!!!
Hope we can do it but think that referring to the Spanish Armada is stretching clutching at straws!!
Love your optimism though
A Brazil V Argentina final ! Ooh, wouldn't that be good. A bit like an England V Germany final ...but with flare added and disappointment taken out.
I've just been looking at the Spain group ...A little bit of bad luck and Spain could still go out in the first round ...that couldn't happen ...could it!!!
AND ...Brazil/Portugal later today ...ooh, I'm tingling all over at the thought of it.
Well Brazil-Portugal is currently 0-0 so my predictions for 3-3 are going out of the window at the moment! I have a feeling Chile will beat Spain for some reason and they might go out. I'm going to predict that England will (narrowly) beat the Germans but lose to Argentina 🙁 .
Chris
Off to my sisters with the family this afternoon, for a WC BBQ. She's got a bigger TV than we have ...and she does better barbies!
Today's prediction is ...a 7-0 drubbing with Rooney netting a double hat-trick. Later, Argentina score a single goal in extra time to narrowly beat Mexico.
Roll on the quarters!!!
You were very close with your predictions 😉
Yeah, I dunno what went wrong there! It makes no sense!
As for Germany/Argentina. Gotta go for Argentina as being the least flaky of the two. And I still quite fancy watching Brazil/Argentina in the final.
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