World Cup Group A (1 Viewer)

[RED(tape)MENACE]

South Africa
Mexico
Uruguay
France

South Africa will be hoping for a South Korea style home advantage.
Uruguay a decent outside bet if Forlan is allowed to do his thing.
Hopefully the French die in a fire, and with Domenech at the helm it's somewhat likely.
Mexico always make a good showing and are usually good for a few surprise quality players with the strength (and obscurity abroad) of their domestic league.

 

[washingcattle]

Mexico and Uraguay to come through by both hand balling the shite out of those froggy cunts. Steven Pienaar to play out of his fucking skin adding 10 million to his valuation and make it impossible for us to keep him, leading to a total toffee collapse back to the bad old days of booting it long. Someone please Give Moysey some fucking money for jaysus sake.

 

[Richie]

Be interesting to see if South Africa get the rub of the green to help them into the second round.. Have the hosts ever gone out in the group stages before? Could be a very close run group, actually.

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

Hosts have never gone out in the group stages before.
SA are woeful and might still be the lowest ranked team in the competition, lower than North Korea.....

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

South Africa created plenty of chances in the Confederations Cup but had nobody who looked like ever scoring one of them.
They rely pretty heavily on Pienaar too.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Hard to call, an interesting group due to the weakness of the top seeds.
France to win the group unconvincingly and go out soon after.
As R(T)M says, Mexico are always a little bit unknown as a lot of their players stay at home. Hoping they're as entertaining as they've been the last couple of World Cups.

 

[evil bandit]

Sadly I think France will get through then it's between Uraguay and Mexico.

Hopefully the new United signing Javier Hernandez makes the Mexican squad as it'll be a good stage to judge him on.

 

[Cormcolash]

South Africa finish top of the group when it turns out all these prawns they have playing for them are incredible at football if you promise they will get catfood for it.
France come in second, with Fabien Barthez coming on and scoring the vital goals for them using a combination of the headbutt and handball method.
Urgay and Mexico eliminate each other when it turns out the lines painted on the pitch for their match are in fact lines of cocaine and all the players subsequently get banned from football for the next 2 years.

 

[avernus]

Mexico, France. Uruguay will score some stupidly beautiful goals, but come third by a point. South Africa won't do shit.

 

[Bladez]

Weird the way Domenech is leaving Benzema at home. Even with his problems at Real I thought he'd be a definite.

 

[washingcattle]

Weird....Domenech ?


Surely not.

 

[It Will Never Last]

I've lumped on Mexico to top this group at 7/2, so they'll finish last probably.

 

[Hector Grey]

benny maccarthy is back for sarf afreeka. so....uh...expect lots of shots....somewhere...

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

benny maccarthy is back for sarf afreeka. so....uh...expect lots of shots....somewhere...

Benni McCarthy dropped for 23!
Top Scorer and all.

 

[Hector Grey]

wasters. they'll get theirs now.

 

[washingcattle]

Stephen Pienaar to decide to sign for us after all then get a career threatening Knee Injury in the last group match and miss the entire of next season

5/2

Noice lil earnah !

 

[evil bandit]

France have had a horrible preparation for the World Cup, their last three friendlies saw them needing an 83rd minute minute goal to beat Costa Rica 2-1 after going a goal down then they had to come from behind to draw with Tunisia 1-1 and now they've just lost 1-0 to China !!!

 

[Cormcolash]

The Chinese must have cut Henry's hand off or something

 

[Unicron]

Corm will be delighted to learn that Henry is unlikely to start for the French.

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/06/07/france-world-cup-2010-tactics/

 

[Cormcolash]

I want him to play, and go around hand-balling goals into the opponent's nets, whilst FIFA say it's all okay and laugh. It's the new direction for football, we are actually being honoured, they're turning it into Gaelic.