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Can we WIN the World Cup?

Qualification, achieved. We may have done it the hard way, but we managed to secure our passage to Brazil with two fine performances against Montengro and Poland in our concluding group games.  To be honest, in those last two games thats the best I've seen England play for a very long while. I'm being serious, I thought we were absolutely brilliant against Montenegro from the 1st minute to the very last, and although the game against Poland was a lot more of a nervy affair and bar some shaky moments whereby Lewandowski threatened, we also performed extremely well that night; particularly with the pressure that had been out on the team prior to the game.  In the two games we played with an intensity, urgency and with a will to succeed that has been evidently lacking in previous years. We looked like a team who wanted to win. We looked like a team who didn't want to let themselves down. And most importantly, we looked like a team that didn't want to let the country down. ...