next years world cup.......your winner.

germans played well in pool play, argies seem pretty hot , brazil are always there,and spain same old same old......................as for my old new zealand team, well if they get past mexico and get there they will have done well anyhow .

Spain Argentina Germany Belgium---in that order-- but rooting for ENGLAND

england are all hype but yea good luck to them but they just seem to strike the germans who seem to send them on their way.

one thing for sure it will be a FANTASTIC world cup---BEST EVER---and i am so happy ENGLAND will be a part of it

Brazil or Colombia for me.

Switzerland, USA, Japan and Chile as outsiders to reach at least the quarters (and a possibility of a semi)

Brazil will probably win it, though I think they're a very average Brazilian generation. Live outsiders Japan, Uruguay & Mexico

winner= me.... I will lay England with every penny I have

Brazil in Brazil should do well, although as above, it's a pretty average Brazil side. Spain have the class and for many of them it will be their Swansong. Outsiders to do well, I'll go with Belgium, some pretty good youngsters like Lukaku.

Belgium are def a team from outside the big 4/5 id be having a small play on  ,not interested in punting any at short prices/big teams ,,we need a world cup winning outsider ,,oops thats brings England into the equation

1 of Argentina, Germany, Spain or Italy

Even that John Terry has retired from international duty...he will be there or thereabouts at the final

Colombia, Chile and Japan for value bets. If Japan could defend they would be a proper outfit.

I'm on the Argies

Il be backing argentina, dont see europeans being a lot of threat in the conditions

average brazil side might have enough to win this, poor value though

Brazil will no doubt have all the stops pulled out to make sure they win it

Argentina 78 springs to mind


Otherwise i'm going for  Germany or Belgium to make the final ,England and Spain i think are good for the Qs ...

Germany.

Don't think that Argentina have a good enough defence to win it.

Almost all the WC's for last thirty years have been won by the team with the best defence. Argentina have a poor defence and a poor goalkeeper.

Brazil for me are the clear favourites.

if this was in Europe , would sell one of my lungs to be on Germany.

Germany.  It's about time.

if people are talking about the climate being an issue then Brazil must have one hell of a winter! I would guess that the matches in the latter stages are played in the evenings so surely it won't be that hot? I agree that even though Brazil are no great shakes they will take a lot of beating on home soil

England for me.

I honestly think they will do it.

Argentina v England or Argentina v Brazil final

"if people are talking about the climate being an issue then Brazil must have one hell of a winter! I would guess that the matches in the latter stages are played in the evenings so surely it won't be that hot?"

Dead right.I was in Sao Paulo in July and it was freezing, some homeless people even died from hypothermia.

England are a certainty, improving, more direct and they even beat Scotland, it'll be vindaloo all the way next year. cheers.

argentina v brazil is one of the biggest rivalries in world football...

do many of you lot honestly think the argies would be allowed to win it in brazil...

the draw will be **** to keep them apart until the final, of which by that time, argentina will have been eliminated...by the germans probably

r!gged that should say

The Argies will probably storm through their group scoring loads of goals and everyone will big them up until they come up against a decent attacking side who will expose their pretty weak defence

I must be one of the only people on here that does not fancy Brazil one bit to win it

million1...

i would think many share your view...

but people take into account, they are the host nation, the draw will favour them, maybe the conditions also...and of course, just the name of BRAZIL, in a world cup finals, is enough to sway many people on its own

i agree especially being host nation---but i do not think they are a GREAT side

I think Brazil showed in the confederations cup that they'll be very hard to beat. Also they haven't lost at home since 2002.

without being a great side, and who says they wont be come the time of the finals...i think they will certainly be one of the main players at the finals...

i would be surprised if they didnt make at least the semis, 1/4 finals at the absolute worst...

whether they carry my money, well i shall wait and see...

who says ENGLAND wont be come the time of the finals (i live in hope)

world cup winners that weren't best team at tournament are numerous- england 66, west Germany  74, argentina 78 , Italy 82 etc

Brazil themselves. 1994.

proves me point db, that's why think brazil could win it without being best team.

not sure Italy were the best side in 2006 either (i thought Germany were) and they won

and could argue 1990 England were best team and possibly should have won it.

In fairness there probably wasn't that many world cups won by teams who definitely were the best team at the time. West Germanys only claim would be 90, but you could argue England should've had them in the semis. I'd say that there's a fair arguement that England were the best in '66, they lost very few games in the second half of that decade and had some real class.

what I would say about England is they had a better team at 1970s wc than did in 1966.

the 1st world cup finals i can remember properly is 1974...

i remember how disappointing the brazilians were...and some bloke from chile having massive hair

Brazilians were really dirty side in 74, amazing how 4 years had changed them, Dutch were class, and travesty didn't win. Poland were  decent and put into perspective England going out to them.
are you sure its not paul brietner , west german left back your not thinking of panther, he scored a belter v chile. he had git massive afro.

no morpeth...if you ever get to see any highlights, or even maybe a pic of the chile squad, there is one of their fellas who has a fl!ppin great mop of hair...

its the game v west germany that i remember it from...

that bloke from zaire at the free kick against brazil is also worth mentioning

aye,there was a boro fan on here had his user name

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