Where will England finish in the World Cup?

[paulgilb]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but where does everybody think England will get to in the World Cup?

In the past:
1930 - DNQ
1934 - DNQ
1938 - DNQ
1950 - out in group stage (bl**dy Yanks)
1954 - out in QFs to Uruguay
1958 - lost group play-off to USSR
1962 - out in QFs to Brazil (who won tournament)
1966 - won
1970 - out in QFs to West Germany (after they poisoned some of our players)
1974 - DNQ
1978 - DNQ
1982 - out in 2nd group stage
1986 - out in QFs to Argentina (who won tournament) (bl**dy Maradona)
1990 - out in SFs to West Germany (who won tournament)
1994 - DNQ
1998 - out in 2nd round to Argentina (bl**dy Simeone)
2002 - out in QFs to Brazil (who won tournament)

[Maximo Mark]

Q/F's...

[Razzle Dazzle]

3rd Place

[dynamoe88]

No further than QF.

I hope I'm wrong but Germany, Holland, Brazil, Argentina - are these the teams we can meet from the knock out round last 16 & QF?

We had a better chance in 2002 - at least this time the temperature and climate will be better.

[greendemon]

quarter finals.

too many important players (esp. forward players) will either be barely fit or totally lacking match practice...

[Razzle Dazzle]

brazil took an unknown, untried 17 year old to the world cup in 58 (i think)

i think you all know who i mean

[Admin]

That's brazil, this is england.

[frag]

Quarter-final exit to Holland... actually we might get past them if we take them to penalties, because they're even worse than us.

Still, only 29 days before world cup starts now #cheer#

[Razzle Dazzle]

admin said:

That's brazil, this is england.

so we have to be positive about sh*tty boro when its obvious they will loose but be negative towards england and english players!

It dosenrt matter where your born if you have tallent you have tallent...

[Admin]

Come on who said 1st, own up Eternal optimist.
I honestly thought boro had a chance.
I also think that if england had all their players fully fit and their minds sorted, we could win it, but I fully expect us to flop spectacularly.
I cant believe you are trying to compare pele to walcott, I hope he is the next starlet, but he didn't go straight into the arsenal team at any point did he?

[shrubbery]

dazthehammer said:

brazil took an unknown, untried 17 year old to the world cup in 58 (i think)

i think you all know who i mean

it was 58 and he rocked but peles dont come along too often. mind you he might be the next owen which wouldnt be too bad especially if hes not as injury prone.
i dont think theo will do much apart from come on as a sub and terrorise defences which might be all he needs to do. it might just give us an edge in the last fifteen minutes

[shrubbery]

i voted 3rd, but i cant really say w/o knowing who we're paired up with. i think argentina would be a real problem because we won the last competitive game aginst them so they'll be itching for revenge. i think any team with ronaldinho on form in will concede eventually even with a top draw defensive display so we would have to be able to outscore them - not convinced we could do this. germany on their turf would be another difficult test too
the more i think about it the more i struggle to see us getting past the Q/Fs. bugger i was too rash ;D

[Chris]

Don't know or care much about football but always watch the World Cup and take an interest in it.I've said quarters again.Quite a few on the BBC Sport forums think we'll win it,no problem at all!!

[frag]

shrubbery said:

i voted 3rd, but i cant really say w/o knowing who we're paired up with. i think argentina would be a real problem because we won the last competitive game aginst them so they'll be itching for revenge. i think any team with ronaldinho on form in will concede eventually even with a top draw defensive display so we would have to be able to outscore them - not convinced we could do this. germany on their turf would be another difficult test too
the more i think about it the more i struggle to see us getting past the Q/Fs. bugger i was too rash ;D

We've got Sweden, Paraguay and Trinidad+Tobago in the group, and if we win that, we'll probably face Poland (again!) in the 2nd round - Poland are grouped with Germany, Ecuador and Costa Rica.
So the 2nd round shouldn't cause many problems... then in the Quarters, we'll face someone from groups C (Holland, Argentina, Ivory Cost, Serbia) or D (Portugal, Mexico, Angola, Iran)...

I predict Argentina to win group C, with Holland 2nd, and Portugal to win group D... that'd mean we play Portugal or Holland in the QFs.

Possible opponents in the semis include Brazil, Spain and Czech Republic - if we all win our groups, Italy, France, Argentina and Germany will be in the other half of the draw.

[frag]

Eriksson's got his strategy sorted

"You can't mess around with winning games in a World Cup," said Eriksson. "We will try to win every game and see where that takes us."

[Razzle Dazzle]

fragolata said:

Eriksson's got his strategy sorted

"You can't mess around with winning games in a World Cup," said Eriksson. "We will try to win every game and see where that takes us."

sounds like a good plan

[Earl Purple]

and what will be the tactics if we are playing a "big team" and go 1-0 ahead?

Defend backs to the wall?

[Tom]

Without Rooney, and with reservations about Owen, I'm not sure we're guaranteed to top the group. Which is why I went for the slightly more pesimistic option of being knocked out in the 2nd rd

[Panda]

admin said:

That's brazil, this is england.

Brazil had never won it before '58...

[Panda]

paulgilb said:

In the past:
1930 - DNQ
1934 - DNQ
1938 - DNQ

Actually, we didn't enter the first three...