World Cup 2010 thread

The Spain squad has just been announced.  More details here

The only real surprise is that Senna hasn't been included.  I would have taken him personally.  I wonder how fit Torres is as well...

well, i reckon england is a no hoper, beating japan 2 - 1 without scoring a goal !........not very encouraging, commissaration's to whoever draw them in a sweep, the so called great lampard aka "lamp's" should av gone to specsaver's......can't even score from the spot......again !...... viva espania !

 England were pretty mediocre.  On the plus side, Capello has a history of delivering his teams when they matter and not bothering too much with warm-ups, friendlies.  The performance level will be much higher during the tournament.  On the downside it is not great to go into a tournament with so many question marks in key areas: central midfield in absence of Barry, who will be goalie?, who partner Rooney?  My personal preference would be for Joe Hart in goal, the usual back 4, Carrick in midfield until Barry is back alongside Joe Cole, Lampard and Lennon with Gerard up with Rooney.

Chances - about 10-1.  I am most interested to see how Argentina get on - with Messi and some of their other players they should be real contenders.  Spain have a great chance as well.

I think England have a really good chance of going all the way.  I don't think we've had better teams over the last 20 years, but we have got the England best manager since Bobby Robson.

I had quite fancied Spain, until someone pointed out that they could meet Brazil in the second round...