England - World Cup History

So England have just qualified from Group C and we will now face our old enemy Germany in the next round. It is fair to say that we hardly illuminated the Group but overall how does this England team relate to the history of our nation in the greatest team competition in the world?
We have been entered into 13 World Cups (including 2010) and only twice have we failed to progress from the group stage (1950 and 1958). We all know that our best performance came in the 1966 World Cup, which was on our home turf but the best finish on foreign soil happened twenty years ago in Italia 90 when we managed to make it all the way to the Semi Finals. Interestingly enough in that tournament we tied the first two games against Ireland 1-1 and Holland 0-0 and won the last game against Egypt 1-0.
We are up against Germany in the next round and our history against them really isn't to bad (West Germany and Germany stats are combined for this section). We have played them in the World Cup four times and won once but never on foreign soil. We have lost two and tied the other scoring seven and conceding six. Goals are never a problem in this fixture...unfortunatly penalties are.
IF we progress against Germany then we will face Argentina or Mexico. We have only played Mexico once and that ended in a 2-0 win for the Three Lions. On the other end of the scale, we have played Argentina five times. This is the most we have played any country in the World Cup finals, won 3 and lost 2. We have scored 8 goals and conceded 5, which is better than our stats against lesser teams like Hungary, USA, Morocco or Algeria.
All the hype has been surrounding Wayne Rooney during this World Cup however he is still to score a goal in the finals. Out of our four strikers he is still the only one to never score at the finals now that Defoe netted against Slovenia yesterday. Gary Lineker still holds the highest scoring honor with 8 goals and the one and only Geoff Hurst is second with 5.
With Stevie G scoring after four minutes against the USA he moved his total World Cup tally to three and is joint fifth along with Lofthouse, Hunt and Beckham. If he scores one more then he would move to be on a par with Michael Owen and Bobby Charlton.
Taking the field yesterday against Slovenia was Englands 55th appearance in the finals and the victory was their 25th. We have now scored 72 goals since its inception and conceded only 46. As for tournament to tournament the most goals we have scored was 11, but again that was in 1966. the most on foreign soil was 8 and that occured in 1954. The lest amount scored in a World Cup we participated in was just the two and that was in 1950 when we failed at the group stage.
All in all it seems that when we start in the groups slower we tend to progress further (eg 1966 and 1990) and when we play 'bigger' opposition we tend to up our performance although sometimes the result doesn't follow.