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Nor me. They look tired and past it to me. England will get to the final without any bother in my opinion. The other sides in the same half are very average. I also think England will win the whole thing. Not because they are an especially great team but because they are the least worst of all the teams remaining. I've watched finals since the early 70s and this is one of the worst I've seen in terms of quality. England will not have a better chance to become world champions.

Thanks for doing this research. I think this last list puts into context the whole farce that the extended format has become. When you can finish third in a group and still qualify it can be really affected by which was the fourth side in the group and how bad they were. Egypt qualified from a group with two poor teams in it and so did England. There's no doubt African football has improved immensely and teams are unrecognizable from the Zaire side I recall in the 1974 (?) world cup.

Yes but look at the opponents. They have basically hardly played anyone decent. Mexico, like most of the sides in this world cup, are frankly bang average. England should win and if they can't beat Mexico then they don't deserve to win the world cup. England have better players in every position. I'm not saying it will be easy but I'd be disappointed if England don't win.

Depends on how serious you are. If you want to just self publish there are many ways of doing this. Lots of printers around who can print etc. I think you can do it through Amazon even? If you want to do it properly then buy or take out of the library the Artists and Writers yearbook. The new edition will be out in July. This list all the relevant agents that you can contact. etc. The people behind the book also run courses I think to help people wanting to write books. Sending manuscripts direct to publishers is pretty much a waste of time as only around 2% of books published come from what is called the slush pile. Agents submit manuscripts to publishers who they think will be interested. If you want to just publish yourself then I'd look for a company that can print and help design etc. I've seen many self published books over the years that look terrible because the jacket is awful. Also consider how you want to publish. You don't have to have a physical book you could just publish an ebook version. pretty sure this is where amazon kick in. There have been egs of self published ebooks becoming physical books taken on by major publishers but they are few in number.

Not really a surprise.

Possibly though the money is owed to the banks fortunately and not yet to HMRC. If they force us into administration the banks will probably not get all their money back. Of course we could just run out of money for the day to day running of the club which would be another situation altogether.

This. I'm disgusted by that performance. Let's start trying in the last 20 minutes. A bit more of that sort of effort earlier in the season and we might, just might, not have been relegated. Cowards and losers the lot of them. Too many overpaid has-beens who hopefully won't play for us again. I'm not a fan of Rowett but he's got every reason to be completely pissed off with the players. Why on earth couldn't they show the fight they showed in the final 20 minutes before.

Puts into clear perspective what many of us already know/fear. Going to be potentially very grim.

Due to the gross financial mismanagement of the last few years I think we will have to accept pretty much any offer we get for players. Say a club offers 3 million for Nelson, he will be gone.

el Khannouss is already gone. Deal is sorted.

He did sign some dross for them though. But promoting Rudkin over anyone is a mistake. He wouldn't even be able to make a decent cup of tea.

I think there could easily be a chance of this. That side and that performance today and, over the last few weeks, wouldn't make the top half of the league. Serious chance we hit the summer without a manager and with several players leaving and no money to replace them. large scale redundancies of non-playing staff and the same useless owner and DOF who have presided over this abhorrent display and who will dither around before appointing a manager who will have no pre-season with whatever players we have left etc. Just remember it took Coventry 25 years to get back to the Premier League. If that is us then pretty much anyone over 60 today may not see us back in the Premier League.

May as well ask him to leave now. We're not staying up and he's useless.

Steve Walsh was amazing for us but that was part of a trio really when he was at his best. I don't think you'd find many Everton fans missing him.

Yes for me too. Before that we were playing exciting attacking football. That defeat was a sobering affair and appeared to change our approach to the way we played. Confidence was knocked for both players and manager and I don't think we ever really got over it. Seems a bit mad to pinpoint the start of the demise to when we were riding high in the league but I do genuinely that day was the turning point.