Is this the best World Cup you can remember?

@Picklebobble2 The winners got knocked out in the first round and Argentina were lucky to get out of the first round.

@Burnley123 Wide open ! Never known it be that way before.

@Picklebobble2 Got to favour the winners of the France v Belgium match but then can this unpredictable nature continue into the final which as you said started way back in the qualifiers with Italy & Holland.

@SAandME Yes this England team is 'on paper' vastly inferior to that side but much more cohesive and better managed.

@Burnley123 Well in fairness our ceiling should be considered the semi-finals for now. I present 1930 as evidence. 😎. And also this travesty courtesy of the English referee in the 2002 quarterfinals. [youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3psAYfOv8]

@luckranger71 LOL. I think you mean the 1950 WC, when an amateur USA team beat England in one of the biggest shocks in history.

Yes, the US should have won the 2002 quarter-final and its a game you utterly dominated in open play. The team has never been quite as good since though.

Your game has come a long way and its tough in a place where it has a lot of competition. The point I made to NorthWest though is that there is a big gap between the top-tier and the second tier. Some nations plateau in the second tier; like Colombia, Japan and Mexico.

@Burnley123 I was aware of 1950 😎 but was referring to the U.S. making the semis in the inaugural WC in 1930.

@BlueMetalChick I deleted it because I thought it was a silly thing to say not necessary on a friendly sports post. But be as it may...

I've been called everything under the sun here and I don't bite back. Not even to you.

@Burnley123 Oh come on, the whole point of sports is to be unfriendly.

@BlueMetalChick You are entertainingly unfriendly but a bit much sometimes. It is what it is though. 🤦😂

TTYL.

@Supesun I don't think we are a World Cup winning standard team but a favourable draw means we have a real chance of getting to the final. It would be an upset to beat Belgium of France. Its unlikely but possible.

@XxXtentacion lol

@luckranger71 They had one in 1982? :-)

@Northwest 😎 Yes. In Spain. Italy over West Germany in the final. Only the final was televised on a major US network (ABC). In the Chicago area the Spanish language stations carried the other games.

@luckranger71 Yes, it was available only on the Spanish stations in California.