Which is fine by you, right? Because you "so want us to go out in the group stage", don't you?
So if we do something that goes towards achieving that thing you "so want", you won't need to complain, right?
In fact for someone giving it the "I've always been anti-England, me" routine the other day, it's funny you went to a live England friendly. I can only assume you went dressesd as a Kamikaze pilot waving a Japanese flag.