Portugal and Germany in the same group. Netherlands and Spain in the same group. Group H is piss easy as well.
Group E - Switzerland; Ecuador; France; Honduras Group F - Argentina; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Iran; Nigeria Group G - Germany, Ghana, USA and Portugal Group H - Belgium; Algeria; Russia; South Korea
Our opening game vs Italy will be on 2am GMT on 15th June. A positive is that if we do get through we will face someone from Group C.
We'll go through this. Italy are not the same team they used to be. We will beat Italy and costa rica and draw Uruguay
England vs Italy. Bet that'll be played at snails pace in that humidity. Then it's Uruguay. Oh well Woy, hope you keep the plane handy.
We managed to get the worst climate, the worst opposition and the worst time to play at. If we can get through, the consolation is the easy draw we'll get in R16.
Someone wants the World Cup to retain its world wide interest in the latter stages and not be just a Europe and South American Cup
A bit worrying that we play costa rica last... It will probably be a must win game and I could see a scenario where an italy/uruguay draw could screw us and they end up playing for the draw
We had a piss easy group in South Africa and nearly bollocksed it up, and in South Korea/Japan we were in the group of death and did well. You never know.