England World Cup 2014 = Leicester City Premier League 2014/15

[Floridafox]

It struck me that there are striking similarities between England's 2014 World Cup Campaign and City's Premier League 14/15 efforts

 

- Everyone around England played down expectations going into the World Cup; just a good showing would be enough. Very difficult group to get out of. Small fish, big pond, etc. Same with City, just surviving would be enough

- Quietly we thought England could still sneak into the quarter finals. Quietly we thought City could finish around midtable

- England, due to a combination of naive defending, constantly changing formations, actually conspire to sink to a level beneath that of 'low expectations', same with Leicester

- The inevitable dismissal of Hodgson somehow doesn't happen, same with Pearson

Here's the positive. Since the debacle of Brazil 14 England sit comfortably at the top of the Championship with a 100% record, showing flashes of quality not seen last summer and look like they'll come straight back up to the Premier League

Yeah, I know the parallels only go so far but it makes me realize why I feel doubly depressed football-wise. At least now we can concentrate on the Cup

[Mark_w]

I enjoyed the 210 World Cup much more.

 

Edit: Well this doesn't make sense now you've edited the title. Boo.

[Fox92]

I didn't think we'd sneak into the quater finals with Hodgson in charge.

[ADK]

Also the cricket world cup.

 

Both teams have a useless captain called Morgan.

[StanSP]

'inevitable dismissal of Hodgson doesn't happen'

 

They weren't ever gonna sack him during a World Cup . 

 

'at least we can now concentrate on the Cup' why not concentrate on League AND Cup.

 

Hate the way people are totally writing off our season despite not being relegated yet and points-wise, far from it. 

[Dan]

To be honest if I was to liken this season to the World Cup then it would mean I expected us to go down in 18th, but ended up finishing 20th by an absolute mile. I had no expectation what so ever of England in the World Cup yet still felt absolutely embarrassed by what happened.

[Finn Claw II]

England didn't lose their best players after WC failure. We will