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"England V France"

Come on, your views.

My personal view is that England will win.

I also think we stand a real chance of the title.

Feel free to pop this if we plummet out, but know that if you "diss" me and my "mamma" that I will pop it when we win.

AfroJoe wrote:
> England won't take France. Not a chance. You'll all have a go seeing
> as this is from a Scottish point of view, but in my opinion you're
> all far too optimistic about England's chances. Blinded by
> patriotism, it might be called.


I've just said i think France will win, exactly how am i 'blinded by patriotism?' :-P

I don't think we'll beat them.

But I know we've got that chance, which i'm clinging onto.

England had an amazing game. We oozed creativity, were in flow, and scored 6, yes 6 goals. It was an excellent build up for the big match next week, and anyone who says we played poor is simply being sensationalist

England won't take France. Not a chance. You'll all have a go seeing as this is from a Scottish point of view, but in my opinion you're all far too optimistic about England's chances. Blinded by patriotism, it might be called.

France need to win this, because there's more at stake than just an old rivalry here. If France don't win, then it'll trigger memories of the World Cup 2002 in which they didn't score a goal or gain a point. They need to defeat England to show that once again they are the real deal when they need to be. Their determination will be 100%, and when you're talking about France in this way, they'll beat anyway.

If England make me eat my words a week from now, then fair enough. But it won't happen. :-)

No. T!t.

Lil Bro wrote:
> So should we.

Please, do shut up.

My heart says that England will win but my head says France will. England will have to do far better then they have done in these past two internationals if we stand a chance against the cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Owen and Rooney should have the pace advantage over the aging french defence so it'll be down to Sol and Terry to keep Henry and Trezeguet under wraps and Gerrard and Lamps to boss the midfield. Keep Henry and Zidane quiet and we've won basically, or at least draw

I thought we looked nothing short of awful today. Sure we scored 6 goals, but how many should we have had?

France, had they been in that situation, would have walked away winners by more than 10 goals.

So should we.

We looked good today, damn good, and despite a couple of the goals for us being pretty fortunate, and their goal being very soft, it was an overhwhelming convincing display. There were a few players today that I was not pleased with, Carragher and Joe Cole to name but two, but on the whole the alterantive setup (to the normal god-awful diamond formation) worked well.

I'm still a little confused at why Sven hasn't given Cole and Bridge a chance to play wide left together though. Two defenders, with such talent and an accurate delivery when going forward should get another chance to play together. It'd give us the natural width that Gerrard didn't offer against Japan, although I must admit I was most impressed with Paul Scholes' efforts wide today. They haven't been given a chance since Macedonia, and now it'd be risky starting that way against France.

Can we beat France though? Hmmm, well they are such a good force, if they can unite together as well as us then I think they will overcome us, or at least force a solid draw. However if, with their new manager departure, they cannot gel together quick enough, then I think we could well hit them where it hurts. I think Rooney and Owen will really get at their centre backs, although we do lack aerial height that can feed off Beckham's crosses.

We'll see. To be honest it may come down to whether Big Sol and Terry (I assume they'll start) can keep Henry and Trezeguet quiet. If the back four have a good game who knows what could happen. I'll remain as optimistic as I can, even though deep down I think we'll probably get beaten.

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*pops a cap in the thread*