Ok I will bite. " England are pretty shit". Yes yes of course they are, surely that why they had such a good record in qualifying and are now in the last 8. Are Belgium shit? Or were they shit until tonight because guess what after playing the two other sides in our group they had an identical record to us. Like us made a little heavy weather of the respective openers and then stuffed their second opponents. England then went on to beat a decent side, or infact a very good one according to many (until they lost to England). True it was on penalties but over the 180 mins England were the better side.
Credit though to Sweden who all who have watched them in these finals will know they were a fairly poor side, until it became clear they were playing England next they have magically become a very good side indeed, close to world beaters infact. However if they have an off day and England beat them they will of course be be shite once agai
Meanwhile Belgium were very fortunate to get past Japan but despite this few suggested they were shit, but for a totally fluked goal Belgium would have been back home and Brazil would still be in having turned over the nips this evening. Ironically had this been the case despite having played Switzerland (crap) Serbia (crap) Costa Rica (crap) Mexico (crap) and finally Japan (crap) a very easy run to a semi final would have barely been mentioned.
I will still be bloody surprised if we win the thing though less so than than at the start of this world cup, however to suggest we are crap would be the worst ever finalist is frankly old chap the biggest load of shite I have heard since I last had to talk football with a rag....
As for the poorest finalist I can only assume you are young and dont remember what an absolute load of shite the Argentina side of 1990 were when they managed to reach the final. The French that actually won the thing in 98 were at best ordinary likewise the Germany team that lost to Brazil in 2002.
