Another day, another batch of dodgy predictions... There is now a rather lovely chocolate bar on offer, after Vivianne won the Cola Strip and Audrey won the small box of goodies and so motiviation has been given a jolt ;)

What I've noticed is that several teams are playing much much better than they did in the first game of the tournament: Algeria, ( Read more... )

Three more big matches today and a lot to play for already in the tournament for some of these.

Match Eighteen: France vs MexicoFrance need to win, especially after the game last night and will be ready for this one. Mexico have to win or their World Cup hopes are in real danger. Mexico were awful in the first game and I don't expect them to be ( Read more... )

Time for the start of phase two of the group stage and a part of the tournament I always find interesting. The teams have all seen each other and many know what they have to do to progress.

I would love to see South Africa win this but think this is where Uruguay will come good, knowing they really need a result here to stand any chance of ( Read more... )

"Erm, aren't there two matches for 32 teams left in this World Cup?" I hear you cry and you have a point.

What's going on here is that someone asked me to predict who I thought would go through to the last sixteen and I promised I would make the prediction after I'd seen each team play once. And an hour ago Switzerland beat Spain in the last match ( Read more... )

Very tough match for these two especially as they have to take on both Spain and Switzerland in the next two matches. These are another two teams I don't know much about and I'm going to guess based on what little I know about them.

Mark predicts: 1-3

[Family predictions to follow]

Who's going to win?

So today sees the favourites in the tournament start off their campaign and even though I still think this year is going to be yet another in the long history of Spain as the biggest team never to have won the World Cup, there is not really any chance that Switzerland are going to be able to overcome them in the first match. I think a comfortable ( Read more... )

Back to old rivalries today and Portugal meet the Ivory Coast, just as they did in 2006. I'm expecting the Ivory Coast to put up a good fight here, against a European side that have not been impressive of late...and eventually lose.
Mark predicts: 1-3
Etina predicts: 0-2
Maddoc predicts: 2-2
Audrey predicts: 0-1

Who's going to win?


And how I would ( Read more... )

A very important game for these two, especially as they have to face both Italy and Paraguay in their remaining two matches, making this the easy one...

I have no Slovakian friends (it's OK, you don't have to feel sorry for me) and a few New Zealand friends and so I'm going to be cheering the Kiwis on - unfortunately my predictions don't follow my ( Read more... )

Really tough one to call this one, being as I've not seen either of them in action recently (missed Japan's friendly against England) and have no real sense of either of them as a team.

So I'll go all out for a goal fest! ;)

Mark predicts: 2-4

[Family predictions soon]

Who's going to win?

One game played and already several yellows and, surprise, surprise, a red to boot ( Read more... )