Zatman Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Top 4 in 20 team Premier League = Top 6 in 32 team World Cup = Quarter-finals Top 4 in 16 team European Championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regular_john Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 England are the Aston Villa of international football - perennial underachievers who are miles behind the top sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 We're fine. 9 times out of 10 we either reach the QFS (about our level) or go out to a team better than us, don't understand why such a fuss is made most the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Hansen predicts 3 teams from the same group will make the semi-finals. Remind me again, how much does he get paid? Luckily, the BBC have removed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 That is just embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Hansen predicts 3 teams from the same group will make the semi-finals. Remind me again, how much does he get paid? Luckily, the BBC have removed it this is somebody that said man for man England were better than Germany before they were tonked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Nice to see Alan Hansen predicting Netherlands, Germany and Portgual to all reach the semi finals. Good one Alan. Great prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Oops didnt see the above post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 3 Semi finalists in our group, as I said, it's the group of death! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Apparently in the press conference they were asked to pick 4 teams who they thought could win it and Hansen picked Spain or one of the 3 teams from the group of death. BBC put it up as his "semi final" picks. Much hilarity then followed from the mix up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 He picked his 4 most likely winners... Nothing wrong with that. this is somebody that said man for man England were better than Germany before they were tonked And he was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 He picked his 4 most likely winners... Nothing wrong with that. this is somebody that said man for man England were better than Germany before they were tonked And he was right. Oh yes? How exactly do you work that out then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Oh yes? How exactly do you work that out then? Neuer vs James Friedrich vs Johnson Mertesacker vs Terry Boateng vs Upson Lahm vs Cole Muller vs Milner Khedira vs Barry Schweinsteiger vs Lampard Podolski vs Gerrard Ozil vs Rooney Klose vs Defoe Germany 5-6 England I was being generous to Germany as well (Neuer and Schweinsteiger) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 You are hardly being generous to Germany there. I'd add Khedira and Ozil to the Germany column. It is difficult to leave out Lahm as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Oh yes? How exactly do you work that out then? Neuer vs James Friedrich vs Johnson Mertesacker vs Terry Boateng vs Upson Lahm vs Cole Muller vs Milner Khedira vs Barry Schweinsteiger vs Lampard Podolski vs Gerrard Ozil vs Rooney Klose vs Defoe Germany 5-6 England I was being generous to Germany as well (Neuer and Schweinsteiger) Neuer is much better then david james, not even close. And Khedira is better then Barry. Barry was horrendous in that world cup, although he was still recovering from a previous injury. I think in 2010 the teams were of a similar standard, but Germany have improved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Friedrich played at centre-half. And is better than Upson. Boateng played at right-back. And is better than Johnson. Khedira is better than Barry. Germany 7 - 4 England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 At the time Khedira was not better than Barry. At the time Neuer was not much better than James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolteEndRob Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 At the time Neuer was not much better than James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I hear the black Dutch players got some abuse from a small bunch of knuckledraggers watching training. I hope Poland finish bottom of their group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 What were Blues fans doing in Poland? I want Poland to go through because they are hosts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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