Doobrey wrote:
To be honest, I don`t think England deserved to get that far, without Rooney we`d have been out long ago.
That's been my opinion right through the group stages.
I just got back from a holiday in Croatia (beautiful place!) the day before the England-Croatia match, and I was backing the Croats rather than the England; they had been playing far better, more consistently, and I'd rather that they'd have got through (*)
To be quite fair, though, England were very lucky not to concede more goals against Portugal; also if you go back and watch the Portugal vs Spain match, you'll realise that Portugal are easily good enough to go the distance in this competition...
* - I'd have loved it even more if Croatia had beaten the French! That 90th minute miss - ouch! :-)
