Lev Bronstein wrote:There always seems to be some unfancied team that comes from the pack and surprises everyone by making an impact: Greece, Czeck, Turkey, Denmark. Maybe Russia or Croatia?
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:England, both tactically and technically, are so unmitigatingly poor that we can only regard ourselves now as one of the "minnows" of world football (irrespective of what the FIFA rankings might say).
All we can do is 'park the bus' in every game and hope for the best, as well as whatever lucky breaks might come our way. Thus, by making ourselves hard to beat, we might just avoid being humiliated in every game. It's all about damage limitation.
As for the winners of the tournament, I'll go for my favourite International side - Italy - as always.
Rightly or wrongly, I'll be rooting for them again this year.
Ted Hughes wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:England, both tactically and technically, are so unmitigatingly poor that we can only regard ourselves now as one of the "minnows" of world football (irrespective of what the FIFA rankings might say).
All we can do is 'park the bus' in every game and hope for the best, as well as whatever lucky breaks might come our way. Thus, by making ourselves hard to beat, we might just avoid being humiliated in every game. It's all about damage limitation.
As for the winners of the tournament, I'll go for my favourite International side - Italy - as always.
Rightly or wrongly, I'll be rooting for them again this year.
But the difference is that now we have no decent attacking players whatsoever & no decent creative midfielders whatsoever, the dreadful shite, unimaginative, piss poor football we play actually suits the players we have got.
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