Argentina all the way to the final!!!!!

TAZ, no team has 11 world class players!!!

Let's check it out!!!!
What you fail to see you could easily apply the same analysis to all the other countries in the World Cup. Of course the England team has its faults - however, Dani Alves, of Brazil, whilst being devastating when running up the wing, is a similarly erratic defender to Glen Johnson, whilst none of their strikers are as effective as Wayne Rooney . Spain, whilst obviously being the favourites for a reason, do also have weaknesses - Gerald Pique's shaky displays for Barcelona suggest that he's not a defender who should inspire confidence any more than Michael Dawson, or even Matthew Upson. Alvaro Arbeloa is barely fit to lace Ashley Cole's boots.

It may also be true that Steven Gerrard has not had the best of seasons, but is he still one of the best attacking midfield players around? Yes, of course he is. Unless, of course, you know better than Inter Milan and Real Madrid, both of who would love to sign him this summer.

John Terry may lack pace, but fortunately pace is not the be-all and end-all in a central defender, particularly when he is likely to have the pacey King alongside him, and particularly when his superb reading of the game makes up for a lack of pace. Of course, again, you may be right, and John Terry's standing in the world game as one of the planet's top central defenders is a total fallacy.

No one's England has the best side at the World Cup, or that we will DEFINITELY WIN IT. The World Cup, like any other cup, often throws up surprises. England, on their day, can give any team a run for their money. As for Capello, to provide a riposte to your idiotic ramblings about how he doesn't stick to his principles, blah blah, he need only show you his medals.

Would you like to explain where Italy's flair player was four years ago? Did they have anyone capable of beating a man? Gilardino? Totti? Gatusso? Did they have a single player capable of winning a game on his own? No. Not a single one. Just a strong side with experience.

I'm sorry but England and their fans are no more deluded than Holland, Argentina, France, Germany, Brazil and Italy. Only one team can win it, and if yours doesn't, it doesn't make you deluded. It simply means that one team can win it and yours was one of the ones that didn't, along with another 30.

It's all very well poking fun at England's qualifying group and dismissing the likes of Kazahstan, Belarus and Andorra, but who did Brazil play? Argentina aside they played the might of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia, who haven't been remotely good for 15 years or more. I'm sorry, but that is a very poor qualifying group. Yet they swan up with their out of form Kaka, and their "not good enough for the Premier League" Robinho, and they're billed as favourites, all of sudden?

See, easy isn't it? To dismiss a team by selectively picking holes in their side, or dismissing their qualifying group as 'easy'. But that doesn't make it so.

As far as I'm concerned, the only team who aren't deluding themselves is Spain, because it's common knowledge that they have hot team with form and experience. The rest, as far as I'm concerned, is fair game. There's no such thing as a perfect team, and there's no a such thing as a perfect group. These sides played their fair share of rotters too, and they all have flaws to boot.

THREE LIONS!!!!

The English team is usually under so much pressure from the press plus the team really sucks at penalties. The team has alot of over-rated players who can only perform at club level with the dependable support of non-English players. What they lack is team Play...

You can't possibly compare top defenders such as Puyol, Lucio, Vidic etc with the likes of Carragher, Dawson or King (who has been out injured most of the season). Just have a look at the three goalkeepers, all playing for teams that struggled to perform in the EPL....compare that to the rest (Casillas, Valdez, Buffon, Lloris, Cesar ). This is a team which didn't even qualify for Euro 2008. I can only compare England to South Africa, they have so many similarities.

One thing i can assure is that someone will be blamed for their poor performance at this year's world cup....Beckham-2002, Rooney-2006, ?-2010

@bkismat....i had forgotten that. It means then the likes of @jah man have got a loooong long way to wait!! Samba rocks!! and will rock for 8 years, how wonderful.

Netherlands but I want a goal better than Maradonna's slaying of England. I can watch it 1000 times.

If Algeria can avoid defeat in their matches, they stand a good chance in their group. Otherwise my teams are Ghana and brazil and spain.

@ McReggae. Verily verily i say unto you,please save yourself the emotional agony of supporting the "over hyped, overated" English team .Discover a team worthy supporting, rather than England.Its vanity. I just cant stand another 44 years of of british hype and exaggeration of the english "world class 2010"superstars.

In a country where Rooney's "metatarsal" or temperament makes top headlines for a long 6months long before the worldcup, the whole world would die of english press euphoria and hype with an English win in the semis, let alone the finals.In the minds of the english press, the english team is comprised of "football gods"
and they cant remember if any other country has ever won the world Cup ever since england won in 1966.


Who ever branded them the "3 Lions" mistook them for "3 little mice".Sometimes i pity these poor english souls.If you watched the England/Brazil quarter final clash in 2002 and the media hype preceding that game, you would know what i mean.

Viva Agentina!!!!

ARGENTINA! diego armando maradona's boys r going far no doubt.

Anybody who watched the confederation cup in SA will recall that this USA team is no joke. They stretched the brazilians to the limit. At one point they were leading Brazil 2-0 before narrowly losing 3-2.

The three lions shall triumph, sijui haters mtajificha wapi!!!!