Its just not the English way. We’ll have to beat Brazil to win this World Cup. Bring them on in the quarter final.
That’s the spirit that won a World Cup , 2 World Wars and liberated the country from meddling Brussels bureaucrats .
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With Germany out, only Japan are left to potentially invoke the wartime spirit for the English press in a knockout tie.
We’ll know more by 5pm.
I’ll just leave the following statistic here.
Current disciplinary scoreline:
England 2 yellow cards
Belgium 3 yellow cards
depends how many wars you want to get back mate,
they’ve had a cut off the French haven’t they, throughout history?
Their four most recent actual conflict wars have been with Iraq, Sierra Leone, Argentina and Iceland afaik.
Iceland? The nation or the discount grocery chain?
I meant THE war, not A war.
If you’re talking about any old war, there’s still France, Argentina, Russia and any EU country.
They are still over in Afghanistan
The Cod War
The Croats aligned themselves with Hitler and Mussolini.
France:
England out to give the Frogs a bit of Wellington
France to meet their Waterloo
England Chunneling Greatness
Oui are going to boil the Frogs
Japan:
Up and Atom - England’s World Cup campaign goes Nuclear (picture of a mushroom cloud)
England to make Japs feel the (Hiro)Hito
We can be Hiros(hima)
England’s Rising Sons to wipe out Japs
Spain:
England’s Armada sets sail (picture of Gareth Southgate and Harry Kane photoshopped to look like Francis Drake)
England’s Spanish Inquistition
England to ROCK the Spanish (picture of the Rock of Gibraltar with an English flag)
You’ll pay, Jose
Russia
England’s KGB (Kane, Gareth, Bamidele) out to leave Russians’ World Cup hopes for dead
Vlad for it
Lions out to maul Bear
Argentina
Messi and Maradona photoshopped on the deck of a sinking Belgrano
Get Your Croats, it’s time to go home!
Sweden were war time enemies of England on a number of occasions - War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War being two of the bigger ones.
The Danes were also great enemies of England on a few occasions and of course the Danes ravaged the country for the best part of 50 years until Alfred the Great routed them and put manners on them.
Could we see another English man emerge with the title of ‘the great’ ?
The Waterloo theme will do just fine for the Swedes too.
If it ends in a draw and they have an equal disciplinary record. They’ll draw lots for who goes top of the group.
Who are England going to throw on to take a handy yellow?
Tim McGarry putting it up to the English on radio ulster :
“VAR. If we’d VAR in 1966 England wouldn’t have won the world cup. Just remember that.”