England world cup 2014 qualifying campaign

its been shown time and time again last season or so that the media dont know fuck all about footy

even if we dont win we would still be in playoffs and over a 2 game playoff i would give us a reasonable chance against any team that are in the playoffs.

I actually thought England had a chance of winning World Cup in 2010 with Capello in charge but then the press went all 1966 moralistic, got the FA to force Capello to drop Terry as captain due to his personal life issues and all the momentum of that qualifying campaign just disappeared like that

(12-10-2013 08:07 )HannahsPet Wrote:  

(11-10-2013 23:35 )mikedafc Wrote:  Seems England like to take qualifying for major tournaments to the last game, only one time in last 10 tournaments have England qualified before the last game and that was 2010 World Cup under Capello

yeah but least we qualify the majority of the time

(12-10-2013 16:56 )HannahsPet Wrote:  even if we dont win we would still be in playoffs and over a 2 game playoff i would give us a reasonable chance against any team that are in the playoffs.

Iceland or Bosnia, definitely, Sweden or Croatia might be a bit more tricky but I really wouldn't fancy France or Portugal!

actually french side not as good as they were

For those of you too young to remember it, the last game of the 1974 WCQ was similar in that England had to beat Poland to qualify. The difference was that Poland were still in contention and coming second meant elimination, not a play-off. It went down as one of the most infamous nights in England's football history.

This clip is from a "look back at 1973" programme shown on the Beeb a few years ago. There is a look at that year's FA Cup Final when 2nd Division Sunderland beat the mighty Leeds Utd and the England-Poland highlights start about 2m 15 in.

As with tonight, the game was only live on ITV but BBC showed highlights later in the evening and this is from their coverage:

The U-21 international kicks off at 6.00pm and is free to air on Freeview ch 57

well at least this time we are in at half time a goal to the good unlike last Friday

(15-10-2013 20:48 )babelover48 Wrote:  well at least this time we are in at half time a goal to the good unlike last Friday

lets hope wellbeck finally scores and townsend gets goal he desrves..bye bye poles

I'd be a lot happier if they got a second....

I get the feeling that we think one is going to be enough but I think 2 would be nice!!