3rd Place Playoff I.e the game no one cares about. France Vs England.

[Samilktray]

2 hours ago, CruzNoir said:

The only people that don’t care about it are the English 

 

because we have such an awful attitude

 

The French will be up for this, they want to smash us, and probably will to be fair.

 

And I agree, these 3rd place matches are a waste of time and only really on for commercial reasons bla bla bla

 

but it is still nonetheless a competitive international match against a top ranked country, don’t we always bemoan that we don’t play the best nations often enough? Don’t we always say we only ever beat the easier nations? But always crash out to the better nations?

 

so now we are in a competitive match against a top top ranked nation, the English go “nah not for me” ????   couldn’t make it up
 

it might not be a match to win the World Cup, but it’s points towards our fifa ranking and the chance for players to have a rare crack at the top ranked side, as well as for players to increase their goal tally’s in the competition etc etc and just in general to land one on the French and test ourselves 

 

it’s better than seeing a mid week friendly match against Andorra ffs 

 

I’m all in and want us to put them to the sword 

The French players said in their press conference yesterday they don’t want to play this game 

[Stuntman_Mike]

2 hours ago, CruzNoir said:

The only people that don’t care about it are the English 

 

because we have such an awful attitude

 

The French will be up for this, they want to smash us, and probably will to be fair.

 

And I agree, these 3rd place matches are a waste of time and only really on for commercial reasons bla bla bla

 

but it is still nonetheless a competitive international match against a top ranked country, don’t we always bemoan that we don’t play the best nations often enough? Don’t we always say we only ever beat the easier nations? But always crash out to the better nations?

 

so now we are in a competitive match against a top top ranked nation, the English go “nah not for me” ????   couldn’t make it up
 

it might not be a match to win the World Cup, but it’s points towards our fifa ranking and the chance for players to have a rare crack at the top ranked side, as well as for players to increase their goal tally’s in the competition etc etc and just in general to land one on the French and test ourselves 

 

it’s better than seeing a mid week friendly match against Andorra ffs 

 

I’m all in and want us to put them to the sword 

Ticket sales are reported as low. It's not an England thing, it just seems an outdated tradition.

 

No one really wants this fixture and those that don't mind it wouldn't exactly be lost without it.

 

[JonnyZeroFox]

1 hour ago, Samilktray said:

The French players said in their press conference yesterday they don’t want to play this game 

Exactly, probably be okay if it was two teams that saw this has a success but France are just as/more devastated than we are after the semi final, they played the best football and then put in a woeful performance against Spain. Like us they just wanted to get back home 

Edited 1 hour ago by JonnyZeroFox

[RowlattsFox]

After a long season, a long tournament and with a new season looming the players want to get off on holiday for a couple of weeks. Not hang around to play a game noone cares about. 

[foxfanazer]

3 hours ago, CruzNoir said:

The only people that don’t care about it are the English 

 

because we have such an awful attitude

 

The French will be up for this, they want to smash us, and probably will to be fair.

 

And I agree, these 3rd place matches are a waste of time and only really on for commercial reasons bla bla bla

 

but it is still nonetheless a competitive international match against a top ranked country, don’t we always bemoan that we don’t play the best nations often enough? Don’t we always say we only ever beat the easier nations? But always crash out to the better nations?

 

so now we are in a competitive match against a top top ranked nation, the English go “nah not for me” ????   couldn’t make it up
 

it might not be a match to win the World Cup, but it’s points towards our fifa ranking and the chance for players to have a rare crack at the top ranked side, as well as for players to increase their goal tally’s in the competition etc etc and just in general to land one on the French and test ourselves 

 

it’s better than seeing a mid week friendly match against Andorra ffs 

 

I’m all in and want us to put them to the sword 

Make your mind up

[Jattdogg]

3 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Make your mind up

Might as well  have fa cup semi finalist losers play it out for a 3rd place ribbon . Lol

[CruzNoir]

3 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Make your mind up

Look I’m still Drunk from Wednesday night alright, just let me have my moment of talking crap and leave me be please 

[trabuch]

If we win it will be our highest finish in a WC since 66. How depressing.

[RoboFox]

It’s such a reviled fixture. I don’t know why the big brains at FIFA don’t put an actual prize at stake.

 

Automatic qualification for the next WC or something? The winners, runners up and 3rd place all get a spot.

 

It would at least make it interesting for absolutely everyone.

[LCFCCHRIS]

I just hope we go out with the view to entertain. Go balls to the wall and try and score 4 even if we concede a boat load