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more optimistic than England going to the finals? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Portugal going to the final? Your optimistic bro ha!
Manaus pitch raises fears ahead of England's World Cup 2014 opener against Italy
Alarm at poor condition of playing surface at Amazonia Arena just three days before England play Italy there, with work still going on outside and inside the stadium
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There are fears over the pitch at Manaus's £173m Amazonia Arena after pictures emerged of it in poor condition only three days before England play their first World Cup match there against Italy.
The playing surface is noticeably dry and sandy and particularly bare around one of the goals, with large yellowing areas of turf.
The rest of the stadium is not completely finished, with naked power cables dangling from the walls of the changing rooms and workers still applying a final coat of asphalt outside the ground. Several security doors are also waiting to be fitted at the stadium where a construction worker died last year after falling from the roof.
Roy Hodgson's England team are due to travel to Manaus on Thursday ahead of Saturday's game and will be worried to hear about the state of the pitch. There are already concerns about how the English players will handle the stifling heat and humidity deep into the Amazonian rainforest.
Specially constructed for the 2014 World Cup, the 46,000-capacity Amazonia Arena had been held up as an example, having been one of the first new stadiums in Brazil to break ground.
However, the pitch has been undergoing emergency repair in recent months due to seriously undernourished grass following the excessive use of fertiliser on the new playing surface. It is considered difficult to maintain a good playing surface in Manaus because of the extreme weather conditions.
more optimistic than England going to the finals? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thats optimism
Thats optimism
Para los Colombianos & for the Wankers...
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Repped homie. Thank your cousin for me my portchop amigo lol.
#COLOMBIA baby!!!! ::dickie V voice::
Seriously tho lets talk about England & Wayne Rooney for a moment...
Is he not the most overrated & overpaid player since David Beckham? It's always an Englishman btw. I seriously think England's starting XI should exclude Wayne Rooney. Think they'd be a better team.
You have to stop making predictions for the sake of your country because you've been wrong all year. You may jinx them. Careful.
Seriously tho lets talk about England & Wayne Rooney for a moment...
Is he not the most overrated & overpaid player since David Beckham? It's always an Englishman btw. I seriously think England's starting XI should exclude Wayne Rooney. Think they'd be a better team.
Group A:
Brazil
Mexico LOL
Group B:
Spain
Netherlands
Group C:
Colombia
Japan
Group D:
England
Italy
Group E:
Ecuador
France
Group F:
Argentina
Iran
Group G:
Germany
USA
Group H:
Belgium
Russia
you dont like us we get it
but yall aint winning either face it