General Football Nonsense

ScottBailey the eternal optimist! You could pass as English Good luck to your boys, but can see you getting whalloped by both Belgium and Croatia. Peresic is still a weapon and Modric is somehow still of fire.

If I were English I’d say we’d be going out on penalties - again!

I don’t think we’re going to get slapped back into the Stone Age by Croatia, although I do accept that we might take a good kicking from Belgium - but I still think we’ll be competitive in the group.

The one advantage I have over the Europeans on here is that I’ve seen Canada play in person in World Cup Qualifiers and also nearly every game they’ve played in the final rounds - along with the build up over the past four years. You guys as far as I’m aware wouldn’t have had their games televised, whereas the European, South American and African games were televised here.

I’m a football junkie. I watch loads, play, ref and for a long time I didn’t believe because of how shit we’ve been for so long. John Herdman said we were going to qualify for the World Cup in 2018 when he was hired and the press nearly laughed him out of the room. I firmly believe now.

If we can beat Mexico and draw with them at the Azteca in Mexico City, we are good enough to beat or draw Croatia.

I understand the hesitancy in believing, but the US also ranks higher than Croatia in FIFA (which I’m aware can be contentious) and we also drew with them in the US and beat them - without our best player in Alphonso Davies.

Another thing worth considering is that last year we scored the most goals of any team in FIFA and jumped the highest amount in rankings over any country as well. We also had to play the largest number of games to get to Qatar as well and STILL finished atop of CONCACAF and only lost two games in the entire process.

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It’s semantics, but feeling like and actually saying we will are quite different to me.

That’s fine. I’ll roll with it. I’m not walking back my stance! I have faith in this side. The hard work WILL pay off.

I predict we’ll score pur fist goal, win our first game and get out of our group too. So there. Last time in 1986 we did none of these things and I know Herdman is very competent at making our lads hungry to achieve.

vinnyt77 it’s in relevance of a fraction, so 50,000 chances to 1 that they will do x. Don’t quote me on that because I don’t bet on sports based upon odds or really at all, but that’s my understanding.

loopdokter it’s in relevance of a fraction, so 50,000 chances to 1 that they will do x. Don’t quote me on that because I don’t bet on sports based upon odds or really at all, but that’s my understanding.

Well I am going to quote you on that, because even a cursory glance at the numbers alongside what you posted earlier will show that you’d have to be absolutely retarded or with zero knowledge of a tournament whatsoever to recognise that what you posted as your “understanding” is clearly nonsense.

For what you said to be right, then the favourites for the whole tournament, Brazil, would only be expected to win the tournament once in every 500 hypothetical tournaments?! Even though there are only 32 teams? Ermmmm….

As @vinnyt77 pointed out, Brazil’s odds are 5-1 to win, and the US odds show how much you’d be expected to win if you bet $100 on the option.

Hursty he’s one of the only English ‘LiverPOO’ players I can bash, so what do you expect?! Could replace Hendo with TAA, but he’s half decent and I’d probably have the old bill knocking on my door before long

Old-Dutch thought Gomez deserved a shout today at RB