Quote Originally Posted by jacobncfc View Post
It’s like people have never watched a major tournament before. France won the last World Cup after a group stage of two narrow wins over Australia and Peru, and a goalless draw with Denmark. Portugal won the last Euros after draws in the group stage with Hungary, Austria and Iceland. Germany the World Cup before that after a group stage draw with Ghana and 1-0 win over the USA. It’s the same for every single one you look at.

England are dull and pragmatic. They’re no more dull or pragmatic than any winner of a tournament in the last 20 years.

Totally bang on Jacob. International football is about extremely fine margins.

In 2016, Portugal won the Euros. People forget that they DREW their 3 group games, then proceeded to draw their next 2 knockout games, only to be victorious on pens. If memory serves me right, the Portugese only won 1 game in 90 minutes in the whole tournament.

Let's have a think about that eh?