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"I'm getting the words 'Group of Death'..."
It's time for you to look into your Sepp Blatter-shaped crystal ball and predict which group
England will land in tomorrow's World Cup draw in Cape Town. Exciting stuff, eh.
These are the four pots:
POT 1 (Seeds):
Argentina, Brazil, ENGLAND, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Holland
POT 2 (Asia, Oceania and North/Central America):
Australia, New Zealand, Honduras, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, United
States.
The CL group stage is done and dusted, at last. The 16 teams who made it through are the usual
suspects plus some interesting dark horses:
Group winners
Bordeaux
Manchester United
Real Madrid
Chelsea
Fiorentina
Barcelona
Sevilla
Arsenal
Group runners-up
Bayern Munich
CSKA Moscow
AC Milan
Porto
Lyon
Inter
Stuttgart
Olympiacos
A very strong-looking line-up.
An anoymous Scottish man - let's call him Mad Jack McMad - bet £135,000 on England to beat
Andorra in last night's World Cup qualifier at Wembley, at prohibitive odds of 1/200. He did win
his bet, but walked away with...
United - Ronaldo = what league position? Make your call: Where will Man Utd finish in the league
next season?(poll)...
This is where you get to pick Barca's best starting line-up for this season. First up, I'll reveal
my selection (based on Barcelona's squad at time of writing). No doubt Pep Guardiola will use
several different formations this season...
Athletic power v pure skill. Who ya got? Chelsea parked the bus at the Camp Nou and just about got
away with it. Cue moans about negative football from the Barcelona camp. Fair enough, but there was
no way Guus...
Mark "Lawro" Lawrenson isn't getting away lightly. Pies v Lawro is back! And it's, er, the same as
it ever was. If you haven't played Pies v Lawro before, here's how it works. Lawro makes his
predictions for the weekend's...
Pies dusts off the old crystal ball... SATURDAY Blackburn v Portsmouth: Both teams are in a decent
position to avoid relegation (Rovers are six points off the drop zone, while Pompey have a
seven-point cushion), so a draw here will...
Close, Nando, but no cigar. No silverware either Mystic Torres looks into the future and sees
Liverpool winning the Premier League. Not yet, amigo....
The fixture list for next season's Prem campaign were just released. For copyright reasons, Pies is
not allowed to post them in full here (that's ridiculous, btw), but we can highlight a few key
dates for your diary: 1. Manchester...
Liverpool fans, superstitious? Yes, judging by the hundreds of comments left on the Guardian's
Liverpool FC pre-season profile, in which the newspaper's football writers collectively predicted
that Liverpool will win the league this season. A sample of the reaction...
Terrible moustache, Ian. Not-terrible defending, Alan Hot on the heels of the news that the
Guardian "jinxed" Liverpool's tilt at a 19th league title, Sky Sports pundit Jeff Stelling has
added to the weight of the hex: "Manchester United...
Liverpool fans, superstitious? Yes, judging by the hundreds of comments left on the Guardian's
Liverpool FC pre-season profile, in which the newspaper's football writers collectively predicted
that Liverpool will win the league this season. A sample of the reaction...
