What do we think of England's chances?

How far do you guys from North America think you'll get?

who cares 😃

Edited yesterday at 06:36 AM1 day by pete_auau

Have so far watched the Mexico game, the Canadian game - which was a complete bore fest - and I watched USA v Paraguay this morning on the iplayer and that was a fantastic match.

Despite the nations attention being diverted by a game of Netball in New York earlier in the week I felt both the USA team and their fans in the stadium really rose to the occasion and put in a great performance.

How far can the USA team go in the World Cup? All the way until they face either France, Spain or Argentina.

Exactly the same can be said for England imo.

Does that World Cup have beer in it?

1 hour ago, charliearon said:

Does that World Cup have beer in it?

No. The intention is to fill it full of millions of USD to make up for the loss in revenue that FIFA has suffered after failing to reach an agreement with EA Sports a couple of years ago.

EA make (made) the FIFA football game for pc and consoles and used to pay around $150m to FIFA each year for the rights to use that name.

In 2023 FIFA overplayed their hand demanded $300m per year for the next iteration of these games. EA laughed in their face and walked away....

....but not quite. EA simply made agreements with national football federations, bypassing FIFA and carried on making a slightly rebranded video game. Their sales have hardly been dented whereas FIFA are down $150m a year.

It takes an awful lot of cash to keep the FIFA gravy train on the rails so this World Cup is a way to make up for lost revenue; hence the outrageous match ticket prices being charged...amongst other things...

England should make the quarterfinals minimum. If all goes according to plan they’ll meet Mexico in the last 16 then possibly Brazil in quarters.

Get past Brazil and anything goes. Brazil are not the Brazil of 1970. Who could forget Banks’ save from Pele and the final beating Italy in the best ever final.

USA will do well to make the last 16.

As above "Who Cares"

3 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

All the way until they face either France, Spain or Argentina.

I think Spain and France are the favorites from what I've been told. No surprise.

1 hour ago, jymp said:

As above "Who Cares"

Several hundreds of millions around the world. It’s the world’s most popular sport. Looks like you’ll be streaming Netflix for the next five weeks.

Of course I think England are going to win it 😅 but if they don't, I think it'll be Spain.

3 hours ago, martin-w said:

I think Spain and France are the favorites from what I've been told.

They're certainly very strong teams but in my opinion the final will be between two of either Argentina, Belgium, England, France, Japan, Portugal or Spain.

The big four favourites are Argentina, England, France and Spain.

Other opinions are available!!

To all you Americans there’s a phrase you need to become familiar with for the World Cup. I doubt you’ve come across it before…

Parking the bus! 😁

Ditto! Who cares?

Noel

8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Several hundreds of millions around the world. It’s the world’s most popular sport. Looks like you’ll be streaming Netflix for the next five weeks.

rather watch paint dry least you will get a result, being the paint will dry 😃

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