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<p>It is a huge upset based on Iceland's history up until the past few years - they have been getting great results more recently which is how they ended up making the last 16 of the Euros. And given England's recent tournament history, it would have been a much bigger shock had Iceland knocked out Germany or Spain.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="592496" data-time="1467068355"><p>What do you expect if you pick a team full of Tottenham players? To actually win something?<br>
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Who the fuck is going to win this thing? I still think Germany, but the Italians were pretty bloody good.<br></p></blockquote>Not that the others were any better but they showed about as much invention as my Spurs did on their bad days last season. Fancy losing to a glorified pub team -
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<p>Not quite, England are pretty shit at football. It's more like Samoa losing to Namibia. </p>
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<p>She's a funny old game tournament soccer. Because of the scoring, results like this come up reasonably often. It's not that long since Greece won the Euro tournament. Not sure they had ever even won a finals game before that?</p>
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<p>Iceland now get France. They are again, a realistic chance. They are organised and disciplined, and France are very French, hardly a united squad, playing erratic football. France <em>should</em> win by a couple, but...</p>
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<p>Denmark winning 92 is good story. They were a late replacement because Yugoslavia erupted into civil war.</p> -
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<p>Serious stuff first ;)</p>
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<p>Italy looked great.</p>
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<p>Iceland. The better team. End of. Fantastic, fantastic result.</p>
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<p><strong>Hooroo</strong> went 5-3 with Round of 16 predictions</p>
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<p><strong>QF DRAW</strong></p>
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<p>Thursday 30 June Poland v Portugal</p>
<p>Friday 01 July Wales v Belgium</p>
<p>Saturday 02 July Germany v Italy</p>
<p>Sunday 03 July France v Iceland</p>
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<p>Heart says Poland, Wales, Italy, Iceland</p>
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<p>Now back to England</p>
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<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Roy Hodgson - The only man with a coherent plan for leaving Europe</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>And I'll just leave this here :)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p>So this may not be the crowning achievement of his career.<br><br>
I'll see myself out.</p>
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I saw that Shteve one earlier, it's fucking gold. You couldn't script it better, or improve it with Bill Murray's timing or facial expression
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<p>It just keeps getting better and better :)</p>
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<p>It just keeps getting better and better :)</p>
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<p>didn't happen</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/'>http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/</a></p> -
<p>Mike, you don't think you're taking a little bit too much comfort from all this do you?</p>
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<p>didn't happen</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/'>http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/iceland-star-kari-arnason-denies-viral-story-england/</a></p>
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<p>Stand corrected</p> -
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<p>Mike, you don't think you're taking a little bit too much comfort from all this do you?</p>
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<p>Gentle ribbing then nothing but admiration for the English rugby team when they deliver.</p>
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<p>But when you're constantly bombarded with 'England football are awesome' by the media and England football fans, when they fail spectacularly it's hilarious.</p>
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<p>To those comparing this loss to SA v Japan etc, it was in no way much worse betting wise, Iceland were 10/1 so a 10% chance of winning, so this "upset" was more likely to happen.</p>
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<p>Japan I think were 30/1, so more of a surprise.</p>
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<p>Reputation-wise, it may have been much worse, as the population comparisons etc are embarrassing, and England football fans have a deluded sense of their team's ability and are shocked when the perform poorly, tournament after tournament. <br>
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Do shit in tournament. National uproar, manager sacked. We realise we're shit.<br>
New manager and young team assembled. Optimism.<br>
We do well in the qualifiers. New hope. Media lauds new look England<br>
Next tournament arrives, this time we're gonna win it! it's a golden generation of new players <br>
Do shit in tournament. National uproar, rinse and repeat.
