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					Originally Posted by 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 
			
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 But what's so wrong with believing we 
could win it? England DO have some of the best players int he world, and we have every right to believe we could win it. Because indeed, we CAN beat the Argies (although, they are on fire today! 

 ), we CAN beat the Germans etc etc etc. It just depends on our form on the day 
England ARE among the best in the world, and we'ver just proved it by getting into the knockout stages.