Guest Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 England played well. England have a great, young team, and their time is yet to come in the upcoming euro 2020, world cup 2022. Lost one game, so what? It's football, you win some you lose some. Third place on the world is one big, big achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron99 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Quote in today's i newspaper from Scots author, Irvine Welsh. "If you want MASSIVE achievements, look to the country of 4 million who just beat England." I think.Mr Welsh has Napoleon Syndrome. It's also a shame that not every country of 4 million people were talented enough to qualify for the tournament. Not sure if Mr Welsh was born before 1961 when England beat Scotland 9 - 3 but it's clearly embedded in his psychi, along with Culloden it seems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) Quote in today's i newspaper from Scots author, Irvine Welsh. "If you want MASSIVE achievements, look to the country of 4 million who just beat England." I think.Mr Welsh has Napoleon Syndrome. It's also a shame that not every country of 4 million people were talented enough to qualify for the tournament. Not sure if Mr Welsh was born before 1961 when England beat Scotland 9 - 3 but it's clearly embedded in his psychi, along with Culloden it seems? Give him a knighthood, that will calm him down like it did Connery. Perhaps he watched Braveheart last night lol Edited July 13, 2018 by Ontarian1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 England played well. England have a great, young team, and their time is yet to come in the upcoming euro 2020, world cup 2022. Lost one game, so what? It's football, you win some you lose some. Third place on the world is one big, big achievement. May be a great-ish team but needs someone in that midfield that can turn a game/make that crucial pass to carve open the opposition. Until then, will remain mediocre and resort to their normal long ball and hope for the best mentality. Up against good teams shows them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC33 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 The facts...... Beat Panama - problem being Panama were a dreadful team and struggled to get out of their half. Beat Tunisia - A much better team than Panama but still unquestionably average. Lost to Belguim. Drew with Colombia over 120 minutes Beat Sweden - their first good resul against decent opposition. Lost to Croatia over 120 minutes. One win,one draw and TWO losses - if you exclude the first two results against opposition that the vast majority agree were not up to playing at a WC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blake Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I think.Mr Welsh has Napoleon Syndrome. myth. Napoleon wasn't short. British propaganda tried to make out he was a midget but he wasn't. Napoleon wasn't tall, but he wasn't short either - he was about average height for the time. Over a century later British propaganda repeated itself and also tried to make out Hitler was short, but Hitler wasn't short either and in fact Hitler was just above average height for the time and taller than Churchill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron99 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 myth. Napoleon wasn't short. British propaganda tried to make out he was a midget but he wasn't. Napoleon wasn't tall, but he wasn't short either - he was about average height for the time. Over a century later British propaganda repeated itself and also tried to make out Hitler was short, but Hitler wasn't short either and in fact Hitler was just above average height for the time and taller than Churchill. Totally missing the point in reference to Mr Welsh. We're not looking for a history lesson but this might help? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10603195/Short-man-syndrome-really-does-exist-Oxford-University-finds.html Off now so won't be replying anytime tonight. ---------- Post added 13-07-2018 at 20:03 ---------- The facts...... Beat Panama - problem being Panama were a dreadful team and struggled to get out of their half. Beat Tunisia - A much better team than Panama but still unquestionably average. Lost to Belguim. Drew with Colombia over 120 minutes Beat Sweden - their first good resul against decent opposition. Lost to Croatia over 120 minutes. One win,one draw and TWO losses - if you exclude the first two results against opposition that the vast majority agree were not up to playing at a WC. But we were at the World Cup weren't we. You can't exclude any results & England could only play those teams who were drawn out in that long, laborious World Cup draw, which England were eligible to be in after all those World Cup qualifying games. Come on Mrs Sturgeon. Give it up, your country wasn't good enough - AGAIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blake Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Totally missing the point in reference to Mr Welsh. We're not looking for a history lesson but this might help? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10603195/Short-man-syndrome-really-does-exist-Oxford-University-finds.html Off now so won't be replying anytime tonight. call it 'short man syndrome' then. Not Napoleon syndrome. Napoleon wasn't short. 'Napoleon syndrome' more accurately reflects a situation where lying two-bit propagandists falsely try to claim somebody is short when they are not short at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 call it 'short man syndrome' then. Not Napoleon syndrome. Napoleon wasn't short. 'Napoleon syndrome' more accurately reflects a situation where lying two-bit propagandists falsely try to claim somebody is short when they are not short at all. I'm over 6 feet but always seem to be a bit short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Arctor Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Rashford and Lingard are playing very well, as is Loftus-Cheek, but that counter attack from Belgium on 78 minutes was lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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