Quote Originally Posted by Rocket Edge View Post
England won't go further than the Quarter finals if they do qualify. The english press are the most misleading of any papers I've come across. Not saying that they're team is not brilliant individually, but they never seem to get it right when it matters.
Well the problem is the press have two settings for England with nothing in between
"England are complete <img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" />"
"England are the most amazing team ever, we're going to win it all!"
This doesn't help matters.

I would note that Croatia fell into that over-confidence trap before this game I feel. They started to believe their own hype maybe.