Group A incredibly easy. Poland Greece Russia Czech. I expect Szczesny and Arshavin to go through.

Group B is the group of death then. Holland Denmark Germany Portugal. Holland and Germany to go through?

I think England will prefer D to C

Yep, and they gets it. Hard group for C as well. Spain ROI Italy Croatia. Think it will be Spain and Italy with England and France to go through at the last group.

The QF is where it will get interesting. I foresee:

1A Russia vs 2B Netherlands
1B Germany vs 2A Poland
1C Spain 2D vs France
1D England vs 2C Italy

England given a bye as usual by the organiser's, until they're dumped out on penalties.

Reckon us and France will go through. England lack bottle.

Lack bottle? Lack bottle he says!

Yo, Jenks, I know you ain't gonna let Humble play the mighty three lions like that.

Spain's group are hard? okay....

Holland
Germany
Portugal
Denmark

Jeeeeez. Swap some of those teams into that other boring group. This group is stacked

Happy with our group. Could have been much worse, and perhaps could have been slightly better but when there's so few teams you're always going to end up with at least 1 or 2 you'd rather avoid. Ukraine tend to be formidable at home, Sweden we never beat in competitive matches and France are well, France. You never know with them these days but again we don't tend to do very well against them in competitive matches - losing 2-1 from 1-0 up in the last 2 minutes Arsenal style in Euro 2004 ranks up there as one of my lowest football moments. Don't really see how we've been given a "bye" to the next round. Surely Spain, Italy and hosts Poland have got byes, if anyone.

ROI and Croatia are not as easy as you think, neither is Czech and Russia.

And to be fair, neither will Ukraine be at home, nor France or Sweden so the comment that England had "as usual been given a bye" was a little unfair which was more the point.

flobaba wrote:

Lack bottle? Lack bottle he says!

Yo, Jenks, I know you ain't gonna let Humble play the mighty three lions like that.

It's fine. Not sure any digs from swedes will register. It's kinda like the banter we get from Brian swan lol

We have played England with even crappier teams and not lost in competitive matches. The English players will be paralyzed, as per usual, due to unrealistic pressure and expectations.

Will be interesting to watch though!

We have our own Delap ffs! Sweden play more like Stoke than even Stoke do. You guys won't be able to handle that...