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"EURO 2004 draw"

Group A
Portugal
Greece
Spain
Russia

Group B
France
England
Switzerland
Croatia

Group C
Sweden
Bulgaria
Denmark
Italy

Group D
Czech Rep
Latvia
Germany
Holland


Not a bad draw for England when you look at group A and D.

S-Scope wrote:
> We only had 3 french players against Fulham so your joke is a load of
> bullcrap.

Yes, but they probably played quite a few other foreigners. Like Lauren, Edu and Lehmannn.

We only had 3 french players against Fulham so your joke is a load of bullcrap.

Other than the fact that he's crap, you mean?

My predictions- or should that be 'results I hope for'?

England 3 Switzerland 0
England 2 Croatia 1
England 1 France 1

The only other thing I hope for is that Eriksson can try out Thompson, Sutton, Smith and Beattie, and then playing them in the finals. SDmith may have a few disciplinary problems, but that's the only present downside.

And as for the ARSEnal joke- great one, Solskjaer.

Heh. With all that's been going on with the Rio Ferdinand case and our good old FA, I wouldn't be surprised if FIFA's Sepp Blatter kicked us out of the tournament for hammering his home-country, next summer! :D

But France will be the real tester for us. This is the one-game that, I feel, could really show a number of those idiots who think we're better than we are that we're not all-that-speial, after all! :)

You'll think of Croatia as no-problem, but look at how we have struggled against Sakiri and Macedonia! And does anyone remember what they were like back in France '98? Sure, they had Suker and Boksic then; but how-much else has actually changed? If anything, they'd got a better, YOUNGER, squad, then, surely...?


Still, being England, I don't see how we could somehow fail to qualify from the group stages (after all, we're not Arsénal! ;D ). Whether it be from a Wayne Rooney strike that keeps the media babbling-on, or a simple Darius Vassell tap-in that somehow "justifies" Erisson's descision to choose him and Heskey over Sutton and Smith; we'll be into latter-stages, like always.


And anyway, I have reason to look forward to Euro 2004 (as well all do, as England fans, really)... If what has been said previously in the 'papers is to be beleieved, then Sven-Goran Eriksson will be LEAVING his England job at the end of the Summer to take the hot-seat at "Chelski" - the kind of big-money move he's been looking since Lazio went downhill, and he decided to use us as a "quick escape".

:D

Decent - ish group for England. Could have had Sweden instead of France though to make it easier.

My predictions for who will go through.

Group A :
Portugal
Spain

Group B :
France
England

Group C :
Denmark
Italy

Group D :
Germany
Holland


Chris.

Not a bad draw for England. I should imagine we will beat Croatia and Switzerland but the France game will be difficult. Whoever wins that will top the group

The qualifiers I reckon will be:

Group A
Portugal
Spain

Group B
France
England

Group C
Sweden
Italy

Group D
Czech Rep
Germany

I'm pretty pleased with that draw. We should be able to qualify to the next stages.

I think we can get a good result against France and win the group.

Group D will be interesting with a good team going out. If Latvia can play how they have been, then we could see a upset.

My predictions:

Group A
Spain
Portugal

Group B
France
England

Group C
Italy
Denmark

Group D
Holland
Czech Rep

cant wait. COME ON ENGLAND!!

Just found this on the bbc website
Quarter-finals


24th June 1945, QF1
Winner A v 2nd B
Lisbon

25th June 1945, QF2
Winner B v 2nd A
Lisbon

26th June 1945, QF3
Winner C v 2nd D
Faro-Loulé

27th June 1945 , QF4
Winner D v 2nd C
Porto

Semi-finals


30th June 1945, SF1
QF1 v QF3
José Alvalade, Lisbon

1st July 1945, SF2
QF2 v QF4
Dragão, Porto

FINAL


4th July 1945
SF1 v SF2
Luz, Lisbon