Now that the football season is over, thoughts turn to the World Cup..!
Struggling to get excited about this. Thankfully I’m not English as I’d be struggling to get excited about this squad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44138600
What’s people’s thoughts on it? Whose your tip to win it? Which team will disappoint? Whose your dark horses that will probably go out in the first round?
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16-05-2018 06:26 PM #1
The World Cup
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16-05-2018 06:34 PM #2
I have said for a while I think Nigeria will do well. No real reasoning behind it just a hunch. Then they drew probably the worst group in Argentina, Iceland and Croatia so could easily be over by group stages for me.
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16-05-2018 06:37 PM #4
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I don’t know who’ll win it but I’d wager Germany won’t be far away.
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16-05-2018 06:40 PM #5
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I think the action off the pitch will be more exciting than the action on it.
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16-05-2018 06:44 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So that puts paid to that then
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16-05-2018 06:49 PM #7
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16-05-2018 06:42 PM #8
I see the England squad is being slated by many already. Squads of yesteryear went with great expectations and failed miserably, this one has no chance apparently and will probably fail miserably. No difference really, I hope we do well, we probably won't. I love the WC though and hope Brazil live up to expectations.
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16-05-2018 06:48 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Brazil need to make up for the embarrassment of the last one where they stumbled around until they got hammered off Germany. Was it Fred who touched the ball three times and two of them were from kick offs in one match?
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16-05-2018 06:48 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As it is, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France and Argentina all wipe the floor with them in knockout football imo
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16-05-2018 06:54 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They should be home by the second round. Quarters at best.
Anyone know what their “route to the final” could be?
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16-05-2018 07:48 PM #12
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I'm going to put a small wager on Argentina to win it outright as they normally give a good account of themselves and have almost as good a chance as any of the rest.
Looking forward to hopefully watching some great games and also hope it passes without incident from any crowd disorder.
Mon the Cabbage!!!
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16-05-2018 07:56 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Really looking forward to it. Love the world cup.
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16-05-2018 08:13 PM #14
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Mon the Cabbage!!!
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16-05-2018 06:56 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They are light on international caps but the outfield squad is massively weighted with players from top-six clubs with plenty European experience.
Alexander-Arnold is maybe the biggest surprise but he's going to be a Champions League finalist and shown up for Liverpool in the big games. Lallana would have been a certainty with a few more games this season, Southgate is a big admirer but not reckless, hence him being on stand-by. Wilshere is probably the most talented English midfielder as it stands but simply hasn't played enough games, pure and simple and I say that as an Arsenal fan.
Some scary-looking squads in the tournament - Germany and Brazil in particular and the Argentinian attack is formidable.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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16-05-2018 07:23 PM #16
but the winner shall come from either one of
Spain
Germany
Brazil
Belgium the dark horse
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16-05-2018 07:28 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-05-2018 07:32 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
i thought i had actually deleted that before posting
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16-05-2018 07:35 PM #19
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16-05-2018 07:40 PM #20
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I’ve a sneaky feeling Roberto Martinez could get the Arsenal job. Has Thierry Henry on his coaching staff with Belgium too. if they do well at World Cup, he may be in demand and given his age, would imagine he’d look at getting back into a club management job. Although that would mean Arsenal waiting until after WC to appoint a manager and imagine they would have someone in place before that.
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16-05-2018 07:41 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They've done what they've needed to do for decades - ditched the players hanging around on reputation alone rather than form or ability.
The defence looks too suspect to win the thing, but they have loads of pace, a goal scorer in Kane and a decent amount of big game experience.
Watching this Europa League final is getting me in the mood for it.
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16-05-2018 07:58 PM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
In a one off game I think England are capable of beating anyone but I think the likelihood of them doing that against 3 or 4 top teams in a row is pretty slim.
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16-05-2018 06:50 PM #25
Fancy Egypt as the dark horses.
I don’t think they’ll win it but think they might sneak into the latter stages, they’ve got a goal scorer in Salah so anything is possible.
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16-05-2018 07:04 PM #27
Fancy France to win it this year. Got the best squad around.
Less talk, more gifs. 21.05.16
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