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Any predictions?

1-1

Is a draw good enough ?

Going for 3. 1 Town England

Not a prediction, but in my 39 years on this planet, England have always got the result needed against the Poles.  Stop going on about Tomaszewski.  It was boring in 1986!

2-1 England, 1-0 Poland at half time. That is my bookie bet so expect fuck face Sturridge to fall over in the box from 93 minutes onwards

Sounds like 18000 english fans and the rest poles

Well, at least if there is a floodlight failure or a water leak there are 18,000 potential fixers.

HOW CUD WE GIV POLELAND 18000 TIX - DISGRACEFUL!

It sounds like a football match and I hear no drum or trumpet.

Kudos The F.A.

Polish fans dont make us shit but all the same the FA will regret this.

Win, lose or draw, it will kick off tonight...

I was reading that we only gave Poland so many tickets because there was insufficient demand from England fans for a sell out.  Sounds fair enough to me.

Playing well... if Welbeck wasn't so awful we'd be up by a couple already.

It's like proper football only with England

See I'd heard that it was because everyone that worked on building the stadium was guaranteed a ticket :)

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England score and the roof at Wembley lifts off...good job the workforce to repair it are sitting in the away end! #YFB

Thought England played well first half, looked a bit dodgy when Poland were breaking early on, but seems to have settled! Deservedly 1-0 up, could have been 3 had Townsend (who is playing really well again), Sturridge and (IMO Useless) Welbeck had slotted their chances away! An early 2nd half goal should kill them off, come on England!!!

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Guess who qualified earlier?  :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint:

Its not been a bad game really, I've really enjoyed it so far, can we keep the 'band' away from future england games please.

:zzz:

Squeeky bum time...Come on England!!! 5 mins to go...

In which case čestitke!

Off to the finals then
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Gives me something to watch next summer

Get in! Brazil here we come!

Not his biggest fan, but Gerrard did really well there.

2-0 up, 2 mins to go.

Surely even England will be ok from here

You've had your day out now fuck off home :smugfu:

At least we get a chance to fuck it up in the finals. Well done England  :beers:

I enjoyed that

Surely expectation is minimal?

As always, looking forward to it.

Decent game that,  best bit was so many poles from Bethnal Green there, you couldn't hear that shit England "band" result.

Good game that. Gerrard was quality.

And one more reflection on the polish fans. Nice work booing the national anthem of the country that keeps you in SuperT. Guarantee on south London building sites tomorrow, there will be lunchboxes raided and polish sausage warmed between arse cracks.

Thats the first world cup England have qualified for unbeaten since 1990. 24 years, not that bad an achievement really.

Think the front four have looked very promising the last two games, although admittedly against a mediocre Polish defence and a Montenegro team that lost 5-2 at home to Moldova tonight. But if we can carry that freedom a fluidity, next summer could be enjoyable. We won't win, but it won't be the dull turgidity of the last few tournaments.

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Hvala vam!

Again with England last 16 seems a realistic expectation. Maybe the quarters.

See who we get in the draw. I wont be expecting much tbh, the usual one good performance to give us a glimmer of hope before we go out. I've actually got rellies there, just need to win the lottery.

They will be shit and get slated.

Then they will be really good and everyone will get excited and think they're going to win.

At this point they get knocked out.

It is written.

In all of the England coverage its been missed that Scotland won a game.  I repeat Scotland won a game.  2-0 against Croatia.

Unbelievable.

Did Archie Gemmill score?

I've never heard someone say that.

Gerrard is a phenomenal player, if he'd turned his back on his local side and gone to any of the big clubs that would have snapped him up he'd have won everything by now.

This

So you are saying he has a serious lack of ambition then

:)

Completely disagree. Had a decent game tonight but has been shit for most of his 100+ caps. An overrated player like a lot of other English players. Nearly went to Chelsea but didn't but apart from that how many teams have been in for him.  

I guess it's largely down to the fact that I'm not a great fan of Liverpool & as a result tend to avoid there games as much as possible and the fact that he hasn't had that many great games for England.

As for tonight, I thought Carrick was better

That Townsend lad looked a handful

Yup ,really attacked the Polish full back with pace and skill. Big step up onto the real world stage, but so far so good.

He would have gone to Chelsea had it not been for the death threats (allegidly)

Just back to hotel what an atmosphere great game of football bloody poles all over the ground but they soon sloped away . At least we have a bit of interest next summer no chance of winning it not with a dodgy defence. Got me right up for Friday night buzzing

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Gerrard has been England's best player at the last three tournaments they've played in

That was a very enjoyable game to watch last night, been a while since I've felt much of an emotional attachment to the National team but it was there last night.

Just hope we don't have to endure the standard routine of scraping through the group and losing to the first decent team we face in the knockouts.

poor old Lewandowski looked like a man disgusted with his teammates lack of ability for most of the second half

I actually quite enjoyed watching the game last night, it was good end to end stuff much like an English cup tie, Poles were good on the break.

I don't really get Sturridge, I think he has quick feet and pace but his finishing is at times woeful but he offers more than most that are in competition for the striker spot like Defoe and Lambert.

Hart is so inconsistant in goal, one minute brilliant the next appalling, although he was fairly solid yesterday.

Gerrard and Rooney both had their best England games for ages, Gerrard is ok but not brilliant for England but doesnt let us down, unlike Lampard who goes missing for days on end in some games :D

Carrick did well in front the back 4 and for me works better with Gerrard than Lampard does.

I really enjoy watching Townsend with the ball, hes a much better player for me already than Walcott, Milner or Oxlade-Chamberlain, much more direct with a great long range shot on him, eager and wanting to run with the ball.

Welbeck looks so clumsy yet seems to get in our best attacking positions and often does well, I like his unpredictability.

For me the best player on the night though was Baines, who goes about his duty really well and is hardly ever out of position even though he bombs forward all the time.

No we won't win the World Cup next year but I think this team can get to the Quarters again.

Let the unrealistic expectations of the nation begin....

Great to see Wembley rocking towards the end. Shame the home fans got completely outsung by the Poles for most of the game - the natural result of pricing your average football fan out of going to watch the national team I suppose.

Good performance from England last night, particularly Rooney and Townsend. Not the finished article, particularly at the back, but very refreshing to see us set out to win a game. I think Roy has done a lot to win his critics over, and the team seem to genuinely enjoy representing their country for a change.

Now for the usual senseless media hype. Semi-finals would be a great achievement given our squad, QFs probably a more realistic expectation depending on the draw.

Didn't seem to be an issue for the poverty stricken benefit cheats stealing our jobs and sending all their money home Poles

Went last night and didn't think Gerard was that great really.

Good to win though and the FA's decision to allocate double the normal number to stop Polish fans getting in the English section was completely flawed, they were everywhere and good job we won as it had the potential to get nasty.

I have only just seen the stats for the England games since Woy took over as manager, they are actually quite impressive.

Played 22, Won 13, Drawn 8 and Lost just 1 (2 if you count the Italy game that we lost on penalties which was a draw at full time).

We have beaten Italy away, Spain, Brazil, Belgium, drawn away in Brazil.

We have only lost 1 game away in Sweden where Ibra won the match single handedly scoring all 4.

We qualified without losing a game for the first time in nearly 24 years with an 8-0 away victory which is equally the biggest away victory since 1960 (the other 8-0 away victory being against Turkey in 84).

England are nearly always good at qualifying.

I'm hoping the roy does a bit of a bobby Robson when we get to Brazil. Surpass expectations.

Brazil or the Argies will win it. England will do as they always do

I dislike all this (admittedly restrained) positivity.

If we hadnt got out of that group it would have been an absolute farce. Leaving it to the last game is bad enough. As for some of the scenes last night... Celebrating like we've won the fucking thing, never mind qualified for it...

Teehee. Oh you!

Nice write up

http://sport.uk.msn.com/socialvoices/usasoccerguy-brazil-beware-england-soccer-club-are-coming-400275

Well if he'd taken the chances they'd presented him with...

His articles are similar to what non-football fans must see whenever they read a football article.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8975294/world-cup-igor-stimac-sacked-as-croatia-boss-following-scotland-defeat

That's what you get for losing to that shower.

Not a happy bunny...

Croatians think they're the best thing since sliced bread.

Sliced bread isn't even that good.

http://fbl72.lockerdome.com/articles/109977454
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Going back to the Gerrard stuff, I wasn't referring to his performance in the Poland game, though I do think he put in a good performance then too. He started the match with the enthusiasm of an 8 year-old. In contrast, having only tuned in as it kicked off, I only noticed that Carrick was on the pitch after 35 minutes.

Your judgement must be severely clouded if you cannot acknowledge that Gerrard is a phenomenal football player. His work rate is second to none, he's hard in the tackle, has pace, plays a switch ball or one out to the wing to perfection, through balls also, and has fired in many a long distance wonder.

He's not left Liverpool because he feels a massive obligation to represent his local side whilst they are around the top half of the Premiership, though not for want of offers from Real Madrid and co. Liverpool look pretty good at the moment, he may even win something with them this time.

Fixed.

But the rest of the post was spot on to be fair

Agreed. Good post OF.

And me. Gerrard is mint. And how can people moan he has no ambition on one hand and then complain there's no loyalty in football any more? Grow up.

he kisses the badge on his chest
then hands in a transfer request
steve gerard gerard.

not exactly mr loyal.

Transfer request = pay rise.