World Cup Prediction Time

With the World Cup a day away, its time to make my predictions for the tournament

Winners- Brazil In addition to the natural style of the team, they now look more solid at the back than most teams competing.

Dark horses- Chile. 3 up front, wing backs bombing forward, they could be entertaining to watch and once in the knockout stage could be dangerous.

Best game - Slovakia v New Zealand, forget the big matches, its these smaller games which always turn out to be the gems of the tournament. 10 years ago I gave A-Level History revision a break to watch Spain v Yugoslavia, a cracking 4-3 match. Therefore expect a festival of football when these two meet.

As for England, its hard to look past a penalty shoot-out misery again, the team is good enough for at least a semi-final spot-in Emile we trust!

Player of the tournament-forget your Rooney, Ronaldo and Messi, expect someone unknown to emerge as the player all clubs want to sign, this doesnt necessarily mean he's any good- this is known as the El Hadji Diouf case. Therefore, look out for Luis Suarez of Uruguay,great player, perhaps destined for failure at Manchester City.

Englands World Cup Team

So we are all waiting for the England team to be revealed, apparently its taking a long time to announce it due to Capello making concessions to the Lib Dems, Vince Cable is expected to travel as Goalkeeping understudy