England 5 Croatia 1 World Cup Qualification for South Africa Complete

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This was a great result and really sends out a strong message to the World's top teams. And inspires genuine confidence in Englands chances of winning the World Cup in South Africa, bring it on!

Croatia v England

Great start to the group!!!!

Squad for Andorra and Croatia

Injuries ruling out Owen Hargreaves, Steven Gerrard and Michael Carrick. And Crouch and Owen are left out.

Fulham midfielder Jimmy Bullard is called up for the first time and there is also a place for West Ham United goalkeeper Robert Green.

Full squad is here.

Croatia and Russia from England's Qualification Group reach the Euro 2008 Quarter Finals

Just shows how tough that qualification group was...... certainly in terms of the football...... it is not our place to speculate if England fan's would have won the "best fan make up" award!

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It could have been England v Germany, not Croatia!

As per the lyrics of 3 lions 98:

It could have been all

Songs in the street

It was nearly complete

It was nearly so sweet

Forgive me for day dreaming, if England would have qualified in place of Croatia (they were in the same qualification group after all) then England would have played Germany today in Euro 2008. Rush hour would have started at lunchtime as English industry grinds to a halt to watch, so people could get home or to the pub to secure a seat to watch the biggest game of the qualification rounds. Plus it is unlikely Wayne Rooney would have got married today!

So to fulfil the daydream England would have won 2-1 :-)

It does add credibility to the ability of the Croatia team and takes away some of the pain felt by this England fan, but not this German!


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