[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

sorry to pi$$ on anyones parade
but that game was Pi$$ poor
ok they won it
but only just
Tunisia were piss poor
but if it takes an injury time goal to beat them then England are in trouble
i`m not anti England
but they created next to nothing
they will qualify
but on that performance no further than the quarter finals

It wasn't the best performance overall but Tunisia came to defend and spoil, and we struggled to get through them but we got the win, unlike in previous tournaments so that is a positive.  Germany, Argentina, Brazil and Spain would all have taken a scrappy 2-1 win but all of them dropped points, so I'll take the three points we got today!!

Absolutely. This is exactly the kind of match we'd have drawn or lost in previous tournaments (think USA, Algeria, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Iceland...) and on another night, with our young players maybe a bit less nervous, we could have put away those early chances, not lost the momentum to a soft-as-shite penalty, been home and hosed by half-time. Circumstances and poor refereeing turned that into a harder game than it should have been, but we still came through, unlike years gone by.

A lot now hinges on the Panama performance. If we come out and play like we did first half, then we're in business; on the other hand, play like we did second half and we'll know it was a false dawn.