WC 2018 | Round of 16 | England Vs Colombia

You realise most of us are joking and not being serious?

I know most countries are dense and don't understand the concept of sarcasm but surely it's not that bad?

No one in England truly believes that.

columbia got this.

Mole Owen disagrees, claims entire country believes England will win

We’ve scraped past Tunisia in the last minute, beaten a pub team and got beat by the only decent team we’ve faced. Yet the country is convinced we can win The World Cup! And for some reason I’m starting to believe it could just happen too #ComeOnEngland

— michael owen (@themichaelowen) July 3, 2018

Using Michael Owen is incredibly disgraceful and disrespectful tbh.

I demand you apologise for using the scum of the earth as an argument.

Old but gold

I think there has been a serious element of seriousness that developed from the "football is coming home" stuff. It started off as banter, I would agree but I think a lot of England got hit with the Hope Springs Eternal flu. That also includes Mole.

It started to happen when people realised we'd be in the "easier" half of the draw by finishing second in the group.

Before the tournament everyone thought that getting out the group would be good because we couldn't realistically get past Brazil or Germany.

Then Germany go out and we end up in a draw with Colombia, Switzerland, Sweden, etc. where Spain and maybe Croatia were the only really scary teams. Then even Spain gets dumped out.

All of a sudden, we're left with teams who are just as good as we are but are beatable. Naturally, expectations are going to adjust after that. Suddenly, we can get to a semi or even a final. By which point, you have every chance of winning the damn thing, luck allowing.

Personally, I believe thinking that far ahead displays a tremendous amount of hubris. It's presumptuous to think we're going to get that far just because we beat Tunisia and Panama. Everyone in this half of the bracket is thinking the exact same thing.

Doc wrote:I think there has been a serious element of seriousness that developed from the "football is coming home" stuff. It started off as banter, I would agree but I think a lot of England got hit with the Hope Springs Eternal flu. That also includes Mole.

Nah lol it's still banter, we like everyone in this half of the draw see the route and think it's possible we can do well but we don't expect it at all.

But any country in this half of the draw saying otherwise is a liar IMO.

Lol Michael Owen with that honestly... like England shouldnt be rated at all but somehow ppl are now starting to...

Anyway, important, is James fit to play?

England team apparently:

Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire; Trippier, Lingard, Henderson, Alli, Young; Sterling, Kane

About what I'd expect. Maybe Lofuts-Cheek could have kept his place.

As it should be, Rose, Rashford and others had their chance and they weren't good enough.

Lol Michael Owen with that honestly... like England shouldnt be rated at all but somehow ppl are now starting to...

Anyway, important, is James fit to play?

Jay29 wrote:It started to happen when people realised we'd be in the "easier" half of the draw by finishing second in the group.

Before the tournament everyone thought that getting out the group would be good because we couldn't realistically get past Brazil or Germany.

Then Germany go out and we end up in a draw with Colombia, Switzerland, Sweden, etc. where Spain and maybe Croatia were the only really scary teams. Then even Spain gets dumped out.

All of a sudden, we're left with teams who are just as good as we are but are beatable. Naturally, expectations are going to adjust after that. Suddenly, we can get to a semi or even a final. By which point, you have every chance of winning the damn thing, luck allowing.

Personally, I believe thinking that far ahead displays a tremendous amount of hubris. It's presumptuous to think we're going to get that far just because we beat Tunisia and Panama. Everyone in this half of the bracket is thinking the exact same thing.

Fantastic to read this word by an English

For me England is just a decent NT but if you have Harry Kane you are legimitated to believe to go on . He is exactly what England missed for years

Colombia team:

Ospina; Arias, Sanchez, Mina, Mojica; Sanchez, Lerma, Barrios; Cuadrado, Falcao, Quintero

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:You realise most of us are joking and not being serious?

I know most countries are dense and don't understand the concept of sarcasm but surely it's not that bad?

No one in England truly believes that.

Mate let me tell you from experience that England is the densest country that there is.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:You realise most of us are joking and not being serious?

I know most countries are dense and don't understand the concept of sarcasm but surely it's not that bad?

No one in England truly believes that.

So , we can say it that , at the end, it

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Wtf is going on here. Ofcourse it's coming home

No James, think England got this, hope for a more exciting game this should be...

M99 wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:You realise most of us are joking and not being serious?

I know most countries are dense and don't understand the concept of sarcasm but surely it's not that bad?

No one in England truly believes that.

Mate let me tell you from experience that England is the densest country that there is.

I meant from the understanding dry humor and sarcasm tbh.

You see American comedians all the time say how far they are behind in that regard.

Hell i see it all the time on here, people literally don't know sarcasm when they see it.

Seriously, one of most appreciated things by me about English ppl is their sarcasm . Not surprised about The Coming home narrative . It's coming really though

Jay29 wrote:Colombia team:

Ospina; Arias, Sanchez, Mina, Mojica; Sanchez, Lerma, Barrios; Cuadrado, Falcao, Quintero

So no James Rodriguez on pitch

Country dares to be optimistic about their team's chances in a tournament shocker

Robespierre wrote:

Jay29 wrote:Colombia team:

Ospina; Arias, Sanchez, Mina, Mojica; Sanchez, Lerma, Barrios; Cuadrado, Falcao, Quintero

So no James Rodriguez on pitch

Not even on the bench apparently, we about to find if my hipster view they are better without him comes true tbh

Not even on the bench? Is there a falling out or something? Because, regardless of what we all feel about James, he's definitely good enough to be at least on the bench of Columbia.

The Demon of Carthage wrote:Not even on the bench? Is there a falling out or something? Because, regardless of what we all feel about James, he's definitely good enough to be at least on the bench of Columbia.

He's injured