hackbike 666 said:
Wouldn't expect more than the Quarter Final.
what grates is the hype and high expectation, given over 40 years of not even coming close to winning (1990?). If they regularly made the semis or final (
looked world class, not necessarily winning), this could be forgiven.
Maybe if they were just left to get on with it, we might get a nice surprise?
We might not expect part-timers to win, nor any one team to always win, but given the popularity and money in football in this country, there's every reason IMHO for them to have performed better than they have over the past 4 decades. And Euro's been even worse.