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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.

It really isn't the same though. Administration last time was largely brought on by the collapse of the TV deal and didn't follow an unprecedented decade of success with record revenue streams. If we go into administration again, and that isn't certain, it will be down to poor ownership and gross financial mismanagement of the club. Of course fans going to watch the matches and support the club is absolutely fine and I don't agree with this divisive blame game that appears to be going on as it doesn't really achieve anything in the end. I would, however, challenge those that do go to search within themselves as to whether they are happy with the way things are going and being run. If they are not, and you, yourself say you are not, then think about how you can make your feelings known. You say "No one is happy with how things are being run, and everyone wants Top to sell." My challenge would be to you and all those who think in a similar way to get together to try and make those changes happen. Right now we seem to have a core of fans who appear, in public, at least, to be oblivious to our situation. In the words of Helen Keller He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

I though the same. I don't think he would just make up comments like that without at least something that backs it up even he can't reveal a source.

Sums it up perfectly for me too. I'm now far less stressed, enjoy my weekends more and can watch football without my heart rate getting to dangerous levels. Most eras come to an end and our recent one now has. It all feels different to the last time we were relegated to the third division. If we are relegated, as now looks likely, I can see us being away from the top flight for a decade at least. The whole club is just toxic. A winning mentality has been replaced by a losing one. A new owner is really required but, if Top won't sell, he needs to sack Rudkin, appoint someone to run the club and take a step back away from the running of the club. Trust people to do the job better than he can. Just about everything needs to change. We need a young progressive management team that embraces all modern training techniques. I'd head this with an experienced older head who can make sure that certain standards are maintained at all times. The recruitment team have failed. Glover needs replacing and do we really need a set piece coach in the third tier of football? I've no idea who these people might be and I've no confidence in Rudkin to find them. I'm sad and angry at the same time. Quite how so much incompetence can be allowed to continue without any consequences is mind boggling. Fans want to see success but even more the true fan wants to see effort, commitment and a pride in playing for the club they love and support. Right now we're not seeing any of those from the current squad.

Total coward today in his approach to the game. Afraid to make subs until too late. No imagination, no plan B or C. Just the same as it has been all season Don't want to see him here next season.

Only one word fit for this team, board and management right now. Cowards.

He's absolutely useless and need to go.

40 minutes to save the season. Hard to see this bunch of losers turning things round though.

This is the real issue. Clubs need to stop paying such big wages. Time to introduce a maximum wage that can be earned and wage expenses set at a maximum figure for every club. Player wages are ridiculous, even in the lower reaches of the pyramid. Also government should introduce a 25% tax on all club earnings in the Premier League to be redistributed down the football pyramid.

We were already a car crash when he signed. We needed players to step straight into the first team to improve the team not players who just sit on the bench and make no difference. 4 signings in January with pretty much zero impact. 2 of them a complete waste of money, another marginal either way and the other possibly a positive. At least none were signed on long term contracts.

I wonder what he's cost us per minute played? Why on earth did we sign him?