If England was a racehorse Timeform would be putting a squiggle against its name, which is basically a question mark against its desire to win.
If Mexico are so enthralled by their new left-wing leader they go out and beat Brazil you'd be saying we were in the wrong half of the draw.
Apparently we've only beaten Sweden twice in fifty years. Perhaps we should be hoping Breel Embolo's new baby has got a late goal in her to save us from that fate ........
And ask 65,000 Colombians who travelled who they expect to get to the last eight again ........ You have to admit Shep, we didn't only lose to Belgium, we looked really quite poor. To me it looked like an exercise in saving Gareth Southgate having to make substantial changes to his starting eleven. Maybe we can beat Colombia, but taking into account that our goalscorer is faced by arguably the strongest area of their team, one of whom knows Kane's whole game intimately, I couldn't give us more than that maybe and I'm dead sure we would have beaten Japan.
But, hey I'm wrong all the time, but I always played every sport to win. You surely have to play a good team sometime if you are ever going to be any good, which 0762 would probably identify as one of Scottish football's biggest problems .......... which it finally seemed to be beginning to address last season.
France clearly have the strongest squad but I doubted them all the time until they went 1-2 down against Argentina. At that point they reacted like a team. The other true team on show has been Uruguay, but their talent pool is so much smaller the loss, if it is loss, of Edison Cavani could ruin a really interesting confrontation. He may be physically and mentally unattractive but Suarez up front together with Godin at the back is doing what Argentina has been expecting from Messi for three World Cups.
If Mexico are so enthralled by their new left-wing leader they go out and beat Brazil you'd be saying we were in the wrong half of the draw.
Apparently we've only beaten Sweden twice in fifty years. Perhaps we should be hoping Breel Embolo's new baby has got a late goal in her to save us from that fate ........
And ask 65,000 Colombians who travelled who they expect to get to the last eight again ........ You have to admit Shep, we didn't only lose to Belgium, we looked really quite poor. To me it looked like an exercise in saving Gareth Southgate having to make substantial changes to his starting eleven. Maybe we can beat Colombia, but taking into account that our goalscorer is faced by arguably the strongest area of their team, one of whom knows Kane's whole game intimately, I couldn't give us more than that maybe and I'm dead sure we would have beaten Japan.
But, hey I'm wrong all the time, but I always played every sport to win. You surely have to play a good team sometime if you are ever going to be any good, which 0762 would probably identify as one of Scottish football's biggest problems .......... which it finally seemed to be beginning to address last season.
France clearly have the strongest squad but I doubted them all the time until they went 1-2 down against Argentina. At that point they reacted like a team. The other true team on show has been Uruguay, but their talent pool is so much smaller the loss, if it is loss, of Edison Cavani could ruin a really interesting confrontation. He may be physically and mentally unattractive but Suarez up front together with Godin at the back is doing what Argentina has been expecting from Messi for three World Cups.