To ask why the England team (the men) keep falling at the final hurdle, (well virtually at the final hurdle,) at the football World Cup ... and The Euros too?

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Not an England-team bashing thread, but why, oh WHY do they - the men - keep falling at the final hurdle (well, virtually the final hurdle,) every time at the football (soccer) World Cup - and the Euro Cup too...?

They do so well, and get so far, and then BANG they're out. Nearly always in the top 8, or top 4, (and the top 2, in the World Cup once, and a couple of times in the Euros I think,) but never the winner. (Not since 1966 anyway!)

Is it nerves? Is it that they're so anxious to win that they keep making silly mistakes? Are they just not quite good enough? WHAT IS IT? Why do they keep getting so close, but just never manage to get the win?!

As I said, I am not bashing them, and they did well, and I am proud of them, but I just get so frustrated that they can't quite ever get the win!

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It's normal to be disappointed. I bet Norway fans were, France fans were.

Why so bitter with all the 'losers' sneers? Who did you support? I'm thinking Scotland.

By getting to the semis. What a team 🥰

I was supporting England obviously, I'm English

I watched Ireland's win against Hungary when Troy Parrott scored a hattrick and they reached the WC play-offs.

Shame they didn't qualify, would loved to have seen Seamus Coleman play in the world cup.

Getting to the semis : is losing.

I'm disappointed in them.

Oh well that's lovely. Well done you!

I don't know I just think they're a bit shit. And I think its worse getting to the semis/finals and losing, as the build up is longer and then everyone is more disappointed.

Yes, this!

Argies playing England later in the rugby are we watching 🫣

I wonder if they'll have a raggy sheet too, their nasty little footie pals may have set a precedent .

guys i think you're being ridiculous to be honest.

I've French friends, I don't hear any of them saying 'France got to the semis - they are amazing, what a team!!!!!!!!'

They are instead analysing what went wrong and how the team could improve

Exactly. This is how I'm picturing that poster. 😆 She's going........ 😂

that's mature.

Taylor swift memes now. That's like something my 14 year old niece would do :)

Girl, we don't care if you think we're being ridiculous.

But thanks sooo much for your oh-so-invaluable input! 😎

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Neither did Argentina!!

Is this the first time people on this thread watched a World Cup? You don't normally play "big teams" until much later in the competition. That's how the draw works.

Only when England was ranked as far down in the world as Iceland did they play higher ranked teams much earlier.

Also, playing Mexico in the Azteka is a very difficult draw!

You just need to work on your resilience maybe? It's fine to hope and yes we all felt deflated but just appreciate how well they did, how they aren't little shits and just move on is my advice.

I don't care for your Taylor Swift memes either!

It's not just me. My entire workplace was depressed on the day after we lost the semi finals.

Many of them spoke about how England often lose in the semi finals/finals of a competition, so it is a disappointment that they have felt many times

sigh. Follow the conversation. People come in at the end of coversations and then answer wrong

We didnt say that we expected England to play all of the big ranking teams in the World cup

Another poster wrote that you cannot call England the fourth best team in the World, just going by their world cup standing.

They were in the top four teams in the world cup, however they are not fourth in the world.

Exactly. Argies beat those very well known top teams like Egypt and Switzerland

Argies also beat England

Awwww, never mind hey.... I hope that doesn't mean there's bad blood between us. 😄

WHAT?! Noooooooooooo!

They don't annoy me. It's just kind of eh....very bizarre...to put constant Taylor Swift memes on a world cup thread.

Sometimes I wish that there were some intelligent posts on here

That poster was saying that Argentina didn't play Good quality teams

I'm very excited for tonight ,it will ease my come down. It will be less stressful watching it as well. I can savour my Jude 😍