Recent content by Berlinknives

I don't believe that will be possible United will be having Rafael, Jones, Blind, Rojo, Shaw, Valencia, Evans and Smalling all over the place in a back five, if Blind doesn't end up in midfield, Rojo at left wingback and Jones at right wingback at least some point this season, this would not...

Well Estonia and Lithuania, Switzerland and Slovenia are local rivalries that at least would hold an interest in those countries.

Very good point.

There was a missed opportunity to have two away games in the double headers, especially say Lithuania and Estonia or any two of Switzerland, Slovenia, San Marino... Would've saved fans and team a small fortune.

England did struggle against Slovenia before, and the Swiss won't be easy. There's always a bit of needless drama in an England group, and if this is a new English side with no or little Gerrard, Lampard, Carrick, Barry, Milner etc. it will be interesting to see what the post golden generation...

Well it all depends on the draw, I mean even with seeding England might draw Sweden, Denmark, Norway or Portugal, Romania, Turkey or even a Scotland, Wales or Republic of Ireland along with Russia and the Ukraine and face different challenges from half decent teams. Assuming seeds are: Germany...

It's been that way with UEFA for a long time now, certainly half of UEFA sides could probably match the best in Asia and North America at the moment.

France vs. Portugal friendlies aside, whatever games there are such as Italy Croatia, Russia Sweden, Ukraine-Spain will probably go ignored, I think you can never really rule out upsets, but I think a few half decent teams among the third seeds won't make it, former dark horses like Turkey...

Apart from Fletcher, and because Mata is cup tied, is there many players who can be called up to replace Fabio, Anderson, Zaha and perhaps Nani? De Gea, Lindegaard, Rafael, Evra, Büttner, Jones, Evans, Vidic, Ferdinand, Smalling, Januzaj, Young, Kagawa, Cleverley, Giggs, Carrick, Fletcher...

De Gea, Valencia, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra, Giggs, Kagawa, Cleverley, Carrick, Nani, Rooney Anderson, Rafael, Young

They already were/should be in theory when we pay for tickets. :keano::keano:

Good points (sarc) erm but except for the fact that football is a TEAM game. Case and point Team Denmark beat the Dutch. England deserve to crash and burn if their footballer's attitudes matches the attitudes of their fans. I predict penalty shootout loss to Croatia.

Well there are three groups where this can happen, but it relies on Russia, Croatia or Ukraine getting 100% and the other three teams all drawing their games against each other. Group A seems most likely.

Group A seems to be the best so far ... I told you so.

Don't rule it out. ;)