If England fail to qualify

I'll be happy if we fail to qualify, because if precedent is anything to go by McClown will be sacked, and we can start looking for a proper manager

it'll be disappointing, as i support england and want them to do well, but that is tempered with a slight hope that it could be of benefit long term, in that we might actually rebuild and try and get towards making a team that could actually win something.

and that's the key for me, actually MAKING a team. not just hiring some half-assed coach to pick the 22 most famous english players and shove 11 on them on the pitch together, but getting someone who actually has a plan, a style and picks the right players to implement it.

Meh couldn't care less, only that manc eng players get a good rest up in the summer.

Sad at the same time because I can't laugh at them bottle it in the latter stages of the tournament after being told they can go all the way with their 10 world class players.

Delighted. We won't win the tournament with McLaren so the actual tournament will be far better knowing we've already lost.

Between gutted and not caring. I want the big teams to be there so you can see the matchups between the tougher teams. I want/need England to qualify. An EC without England would be like a christmas dinner without your dodgy cousin - its not that you are overly gutted, but its just not the same without him.

So I voted gutted. It would be a shame not to see them at the EC.

Personally, fairly happy; but only to serve as a wake-up call for England.

I have nothing personal against the country really, and tourneys are fun when you play the big boys. The Portugal-England matches have become classics and were I lucky enough to see Portugal win a major tourney... I'd rather see Portugal beat England and similar countries along the way than, no disprespect intended, Estonia and the likes...

In short, happy to see England get knocked on its ass (the media desrves this, I wouldn't say the fans do)... but fully expecting the Three Lions to bounce back.

DD wrote:Between gutted and not caring. I want the big teams to be there so you can see the matchups between the tougher teams. I want/need England to qualify. An EC without England would be like a christmas dinner without your dodgy cousin - its not that you are overly gutted, but its just not the same without him.

So I voted gutted. It would be a shame not to see them at the EC.

Gutted...mainly because the atmosphere here will be $h!t. One of the best things about these tournaments is the way EVERYONE here gets interested. If England aren't there...hardly anyone will be, and for me it will take the shine of the tournament.

I'll be double gutted if Italy f@ck up too...will become a Sweden fan for the Tournament...

Couldn't vote, because LMFAO wasn't 1 of the answers.

Anyway England fans hope you watched tonight's match because you will not play in Austria for a while...

Commercially it would be a desaster!

I hope Platini will do something against it otherwise he will lose a lot of money...

I can't see he'll like that... So at the end of the day England will qualify because otherwise the UEFA will lose too much money...!

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:Couldn't vote, because LMFAO wasn't 1 of the answers.

Anyway England fans hope you watched tonight's match because you will not play in Austria for a while...

Like you are any better? It's like watching Bolton play a 7-2-1...

Besides...you don't exactly do that great in any tournaments either...so I guess we'll have to laugh at your failures again...

@Ricardo

Maybe Russia is commercially as interesting nowadays...

Luca Toni wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:Couldn't vote, because LMFAO wasn't 1 of the answers.

Anyway England fans hope you watched tonight's match because you will not play in Austria for a while...

Like you are any better? It's like watching Bolton play a 7-2-1...

Besides...you don't exactly do that great in any tournaments either...so I guess we'll have to laugh at your failures again...

Guess you haven't watched Holland lately, Bolton play much better footy

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:@Ricardo

Maybe Russia is commercially as interesting nowadays...

NO!

Ricardo Jol wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:@Ricardo

Maybe Russia is commercially as interesting nowadays...

NO!

They catching up on the UK on Gross Domestic Product fast. Far more people, so much more growth potential there

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

Ricardo Jol wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:@Ricardo

Maybe Russia is commercially as interesting nowadays...

NO!

They catching up on the UK on Gross Domestic Product fast. Far more people, so much more growth potential there

They are not bigger than GB on GDP yet...In the future there is no doubt they will be bigger... In Football at the current momet there is no country more imortant than the UK!

So England will qualify... The UEFA will give them a place!

Ricardo Jol wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

Ricardo Jol wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:@Ricardo

Maybe Russia is commercially as interesting nowadays...

NO!

They catching up on the UK on Gross Domestic Product fast. Far more people, so much more growth potential there

They are not bigger than GB on GDP yet...In the future there is no doubt they will be bigger... In Football at the current momet there is no country more imortant than the UK!

So England will qualify... The UEFA will give them a place!

Was just trying how convinced you were. England are more important commercially I agree. But UEFA/Platini - FA hasn't been a good relationship lately.

That's all made up by the press.... The only thing that counts is MONEY!

I'd prefer them to qualify but if they didn't I wouldn't be gutted or sad.

I will be quite gutted, England is a traditional Football nation and it always a shame (at least for me) when one of them is out of a great tournament like Euro. Players like Rooney, Rio, Gerrard, Lampard Terry, Owen, Cole are stars and those tournaments are always more fun full of stars.

But more important the people of England love football, and for them I really hope England qualifies. The country has a very high attendance in football matches; the fans support the teams even in the Cup tournaments, they create great atmospheres for the games and they deserved a much better FA, really shame what those morons did with the Scolari case, and picking Steve McClaren was a horrible mistake.

Isn't it amazing that Roy Hodgson's name never seems to crop up ?

He has managed:

Halmstads BK
Bristol City
Örebro SK
Malmö FF
Neuchâtel Xamax
Switzerland
Internazionale
Blackburn Rovers
Internazionale
Grasshoppers
F.C. Copenhagen
Udinese
United Arab Emirates
Viking FK
Finland

He has a great diversity of Experience, coaching all around the world and he is English !

HE took Switzerland to WC '94, reaching the 2nd round and also qualified them for Euro '96.

He took Inter to a UEFA Cup final too.

Interesting.

Couldn't really care...Less Hooligans that's all.

Sinterklaas,Fey kent hem wrote:Couldn't really care...Less Hooligans that's all.

Coming from someone who is Dutch and supports Feyenoord???

Pot kettle black...

Luca Toni wrote:

Sinterklaas,Fey kent hem wrote:Couldn't really care...Less Hooligans that's all.

Coming from someone who is Dutch and supports Feyenoord???

Pot kettle black...

Well there is a difference Oranje doesnt have any hooligans! Just people from above the rivers that try to celebrate Carnaval...but fail. But only English supporters of the English national team don't behave when they are abroad..

Besides almost all clubs have a hooligan firm..

Sinterklaas,Fey kent hem wrote:

Luca Toni wrote:

Sinterklaas,Fey kent hem wrote:Couldn't really care...Less Hooligans that's all.

Coming from someone who is Dutch and supports Feyenoord???

Pot kettle black...

Well there is a difference Oranje doesnt have any hooligans! Just people from above the rivers that try to celebrate Carnaval...but fail. But only English supporters of the English national team don't behave when they are abroad..

Besides almost all clubs have a hooligan firm..

What bollocks...as if England are the only team to be involved in any trouble.

Ricardo Jol wrote:That's all made up by the press.... The only thing that counts is MONEY!

Why are you guys implying that some countries are favoured over others? That's just crazy talk....

I'd written England off before tonight so my main feeling is shock that we still have any chance at all!

juligen21 wrote:I will be quite gutted, England is a traditional Football nation and it always a shame (at least for me) when one of them is out of a great tournament like Euro. Players like Rooney, Rio, Gerrard, Lampard Terry, Owen, Cole are stars and those tournaments are always more fun full of stars.

But more important the people of England love football, and for them I really hope England qualifies. The country has a very high attendance in football matches; the fans support the teams even in the Cup tournaments, they create great atmospheres for the games and they deserved a much better FA, really shame what those morons did with the Scolari case, and picking Steve McClaren was a horrible mistake.

Well said! How many times in history have the FA picked the best manager avaiable?

Luso wrote:

Ricardo Jol wrote:That's all made up by the press.... The only thing that counts is MONEY!

Why are you guys implying that some countries are favoured over others? That's just crazy talk....

Usually the 'big teams' and the home team are favoured by referees at tournaments because FIFA wants them to get through. Look at the Brazil vs Belgium, Brazil vs Turkey, Germany vs USA and all Korea games before the SF at the 2002 WC.

It be funny the next time the media gets on England back if they don't perform which is likely.