Match assessment - better, must do better still!

Sorry if you really can't stand football - but I love it!
So England are through to the quarter finals, where we will undoubtedly get knocked out by Portugal. My reasons for thinking this - well, judging on recent performances we wont beat a better class of opposition, which Portugal are. Also, its Luiz Felipe Scolari and he's knocked us out in the quarter finals in the last World Cup and also in the European Cup. One difference, in both those games we took the lead early via Michael Owen. Yeah well - he wont be scoring any goals for a long time to come! I wish him a speedy recovery, and hope he will return to the quality player that he is. Somehow I think he may have played in his last World Cup though - I can't see him still playing for England in 4 years time.
We did play better against Ecuador though, and we have shown that we can score goals in the second half. However now we're in the quarter finals, we need to step up a level.
Ok footie rant over. Am trying to organise a trip to Plymouth in August, but the stupid FA decided that having home games the weekend either side of camp (where I could go down and see them and then head on up to camp - only in Barnstaple) would be LAUGHABLE! Instead they've put a home game the weekend during camp. I haven't spoken to Owen - but I can imagine he's not happy about it. Last year we missed 2 home games, and this year we're missing 1. Opps - I said footie rant over, never mind. Ok so footie rant is over now.
Really it is!