World Cup 2014 Draw, 6th December

Nah love England to get a tough group, with the Germans and to see get them knocked out. Christ if they done any way we'll we would never hear the end of it.

I hope England get past the group stage tbh and hopefully the United players do well out there (not too well though)
I wouldn't want England to win the WC as there are other teams I'd prefer rather than being anti- English.I grew out of that years ago but as usual their media and loutish right-wing scum element oF their support puts us all off them.I've nothing gainst the players or Woy
I hope they get to the knock outs though tbh.

liam_in_germany wrote: What time is This on lads?

4.30pm

France to get dicked, preferaly knocked out by Italy with some Materazzi-esque insults lobbed at evra in the deciding match

Denis Irwin wrote: As I said in another thread England could end up in a group with Argentina,Holland and USA. Would think they'd be on their way home after the group stages if that happend.

Just seen this on twitter  would have been brilliant craic if it was the real group

Ta have to have a Group of Death FFS.
Its traditional.

Spoilsport !!!!

lassassinblanc wrote: Hoosay wrote: rolo wrote: Expected world cup pots. France in Pot 4 as worst European team. Potential for a few decent groups. The groups which will have France, Chile or Ivory Coast from Pot 4 will be interesting. Wonder will FIFA keep France separate from a European seed so as to avoid a group with 3 European teams? But would hardly be fair on everyone else if France could not be drawn with Spain or Germany. Pot 1: Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay, Switzerland Pot 2: Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, England, Portugal, Greece, Croatia Pot 3: Japan, Australia, Iran, Korea Republic, Costa Rica, USA, Honduras, Mexico Pot 4: Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Algeria, Chile, Ecuador, France So France are in a seperate pot from the rest of the European teams because they're the worst ranked European team?   Seems a bit arseways to me, surely being in that pot is an advantage and should go to the highest ranked non seeded European team rather than the lowest? How you are going to get one four teams Brazil (hosts), Argentina (prob best attacking players in world w/ Messi,Higuain,Aguero,Lavessi) Columbia (Dark Horses) Uruguay (4th last time out and have two of the most feared strikers in Europe Cavani and Suarez)   Then the added part you have a 3in 8 chance of getting   Holland(unbeaten in qualifying runners up lst WC),Italy(Euro 2012 runners up) ,Portugal(have Ronaldo),

I realise you get one of the 4 S. American seeds, but you avoid Spain, Germany and Belgium as well as Chile and the African teams.

tribalarmy wrote: Gary McKay wrote: QFs will be 5/6 Europeans and 2/3 South Americans as normal. Unless you have 2002 referreeing decisions before some smart-arse says it. There were 3 European Quarter finalists in 2010. And 4 South American quarter finalists. I'd expect a similar number of South American nations in the QFs this time(depending on the draw, maybe more considering all 6 SA nations are very good this time).

Unusually the 6 European teams in last 16 were paired together so 3 went out.
Id expect 4 or 5 to get through this time depending on draw/climate etc.
For all the heat/humidity at USA94 there were 7 Europeans in QFs.