Okay so England won and are through to the quarter-finals ..... but was it another case of "by the skin on their teeth"?

Yet another poor effort.

Very disheartening to watch.

I didn't even bother opening a can.

On the edge of my seat for 90 mins no wonder i've got high blood pressure!!!!!!!!!!!

I was repairing a pressure washer and an outside light in the garden, glad I didn't come and watch the match then.

I was repairing a pressure washer and an outside light in the garden, glad I didn't come and watch the match then.

Sounds like a good plan for the next match Lurch!!!!!!

Not very good to watch.Beckham's free kick was brilliant good but John Terry and Lampard were poor.

If Beckham had not of scored i could have seen it going to penalties

I dont care if we play cack all the way to the final and win it!

I dont care if we play cack all the way to the final and win it!

I can't help feeling that there are much better playing teams in the competition that make that scenario unlikely.

Portugal Netherlands 2 sent off, {13} Edit 14, no wait 15 as I type, cards shown and several "fights"after 75 minutes!

Apparantly the record for one match is 16 cards shown.

Now 16 as another red card is show losing count of how many players on the field!

Now 4 men sent off - 9 play 9!

Final scores:

Goals 1 - 0 to Portugal

Yellow cards 16

Red cards 4

Edited June 25, 200619 yr by rjbsec

Beckham... our greatest free kick taker.... first goal in three years.... hmmm prolific. Before he scored he'd done bugger all.

Apart from that one kick we hardly had a decent clean shot on target.

I thought Gerrard and Lamps were poor in terms of making and taking chances.

Perhaps too much is expected, but when we're told we've got (allegedly) the greatest free kick taker, the two greatest midfield players, and the greatest front man and a rock solid defence, I hope to see something a lot better than that spectacle.

All the "lesser" names seemed to have good games, but our star players (excepting lone star Rooney) just don't seem to click.....