World cup groups
 

Group A
Germany
Costa Rica
Equador
Poland

Group B
ENGLAND
Paraguay
Trinidad and Tobago
Sweden

Group C
Argentina
Ivory Coast
Serbia Montenegro
Netherlands

Group D
Mexico
Iran
Angola
Portugal

Group E
Italy
Ghana
United States of America
Czech Republic

Group F
Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan

Group G
France
Switzerland
South Korea
Togo

Group H
Spain
Ukraine
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia



England are to be based at Baden Baden and there games are scheduled at Nuremburg, Frankfurt and Cologne.

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It'll be interesting if Serbia and Croatia get through to the finals :rolleyes:

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So it's probably a case of, hello England, goodbye America then?!?!

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I'm sure Croatia will do well.

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Looks like Brazil, France and Spain have got nice cushy groups.

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You cant write off those boys from Tonga you know.

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England apparently wanted to avoid Australia but I don't think Brazil will be too scared.

Argentina:Holland could be a good early game.

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Yep, thats the group to watch.

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I don't know, the Brazil group could be another interesting group...

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USA home before the postcards, so can we assume they will be the Scotland of the world cup for us English people ?

I assume that the streets of Glasgow etc will be full of people eating herring, droti or the like when we play them ? :D

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Actually you can.
Unless you meant Togo?

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What will be the best way of being able to watch ALL the games in the US?

Minty

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Tried googling, but no luck :o All I could find is a report saying that twice as many people would watch the draw as watched the Superbowl....no shit Sherlock:D Does this mean there is a world outside of the US?

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I suggest a television ;)

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Okay I was only kidding in my previous post;

Disney's ESPN and ABC Sports, and Univision Communications' Univision Networks, have purchased US TV rights, in English and Spanish respectively, to ALL events controlled by world soccer governing body FIFA through the year 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2007 and 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, for a total of $425 million in rights fees

I also think it will be PPV to get every game. Euro and WC have been in previous years......... I think now is a good time to boast that I just got HD TV last week :)

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I fell off my chair laughing though.

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And England will still barely scrape through the group stages, after the usual big build up, we can do it this year, we mean business this time etc. etc. etc. :rolleyes:

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draw against Paraguay
give Trinidad a bit of a twatting
draw against Sweden.

finish second in the group.
get beat by the Jerries in the second round.

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With your eyes

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Don't forget about the thousands of references to 1966 in the newspapers and TV, and Rooney will blow a gasket and get sent off in a game - Sweden probably, after getting frustrated by their shite performances in the 2 previous games.

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with this piece of paper, 5-1 in Munich, blah blah blah.
General Daily Mirror Jingoism.

Still I thought they had a good chance in Italy in 1990, I have the same strange feeling this time out.

still....

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The daily Mirror will discover Sven has never attended an England game, he is in bed shagging and has been using a cardboard cut-out in his place at the games, he shamefully attends England's last group game, but the cardboard cut-out is found to have superior tactics.
Michael Owen falls over a record 297 times in a game, but still manages to score 4 goals. :confused:

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but begins the next game on the bench and Peter Crouch gets his place.

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England play in their red shirts, which on closer examination are actually found to be a Liverpool NOT England shirts, in the hope of getting Stevie Gerrard to play a decent game for his country

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My fella seems to think that his Italy are in the 'group of death'. Am i alone in thinking he's overdoing it a bit?

He says England have it easy, and he asked if i'll still love him if italy beat us in the final.... :confused: i think he's loosing it

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Italy the 1-0 experts of Europe. Haven't done anything interesting since Schillaci played, apart from Baggio's silly haircut while missing penalties.

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what he wrote was

germany 1-3 italy
brazil 2-3 england


italy 2-1 england


thinks he's funny... doesn't even know the half of it! :D

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Well the Brazil 2 England 3 bit is pretty funny

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Penalties to boot :D

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face it .. England will get to the semi final play Upper Volta (yes I already know) lose 5-4 om penalties and we can dream once again

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Becks kicking the penaltys?

It would seem that maybe Spain has a decent chance of going farther than normal...amazing- some of the best players in the world, best league (la liga) best teams...fanatical fan base, and they get their asses kicked always (ok, lat time the went farther than usual).

US may get to the second round... depends on Italy and the Cheks.

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I betcha it's not on PPV - just regular TV. For the 1998 and 2002 world cups ESPN (with ESPN2, ABC) showed every game live for free! They won't start charging for it now.

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Best quote so far (from AP).....

Bound to upset the Welsh there :D

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...351692&cc=5901

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Maybe you are right, I might be confused with the Euro competition which was PPV, for some reason I thought ESPN & ABC only showed selected games, I'm probably confused.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the fanatical fan base of Spanish clubs has never quite translated into the same level of fanaticism for the national side, due to regional grudges (eg Catalans v Castilians v Basques etc), which is seen by some as one contributory reason for Spain's perennial underachievement at the highest level.

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to be honest. probably downloading them from UK nova

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It has always seemed to me that the national futbol team is the only thing in which all factions do unite behind...Basques, Catalans, Gallegos et al. In Spain, you will rarely see anyone waving the Spanish flag... due to Franco's ultra-nationalisim and the Spanish not wishing to seem Facist, however at the Copa the last time, there were Flags waving all over the stadiums.