[Saaf_laandon_mo]

Let's be serious for a minute... England were favourites to qualify from this group and 6 points from the 1st 2 games, for a team with ENglands class of player, against PAraguay and T&T should have been a formality.

The reason, IMO, that the non-english are keen to slag of england during the World Cup is that we have this attitude that we are destined to win the WC or EC. Its always a case of "Yes we will be bring the worlld cup home after 30 years ..." or "we can beat the argies.the brazilians...the germans" etc etc. If instead of this arrogance, england said we are expected to qualify from teh gropu and everything else will be a bonus, I'm sure more people outside england would support them.
England aren't amongst the best in the world... The quicker they realise that, the more respect they will get from home nation fans who arent english