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Good 1st half but Poland are awful - tailor made for England with their defensive approach. Still good to see the scrapping for the ball and the attacking etc. (motivated in part, imo, by not wanting to be shown-up too much by the new boy).


Worse thing that could happen is dropping off and allowing the Poles to all-out-attack now (stating the obvious I know but this IS England we're talking about) which they are certain to do (Poland not England... well..).

England won't be seeded, but looking at the seeds (Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Colombia and probably Uruguay) and teams alongside England in the second tier e.g. Italy and Holland, maybe France and Portugal, it probably doesn't make that much difference if we're seeded or not. I think that most sensible fans just want England to at least look like they care this time, something which wasn't apparent in South Africa...

Bit gutted Liverpool couldn't take the 3 points today. At half time I'd have been happy enough with a point, but after coming back to 2-2 Liverpool were battering their goal. That said, my heart nearly stopped at one point when it looked like they might catch us on the break.


Shame we couldn't put more pressure on Arsenal though by getting the 3 points.


On the bright side, I predicted 2-2.

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