Quickfire World Cup Poll #19: front up: who will win the World Cup now?

eduardo (suárez); lahm, juan, godin (da silva), fucile; arévalo ríos (diego pérez), bastian s., sneijder (donovan), muller; forlán & suárez

villa out. cause: goatee

         Enyeama
Maicon Lucio Inkoom Coentrao
     Bradley Mascherano
KPB
                        Ozil
       Tevez 
             Honda

Eliminees XI, except Ozil who gets in cos nobody else seems to want him.

Would pick Park over Bradley, we was great in much the same way but did more going forwards.

Picked Holland at the start for no particular reason so sticking with that. I strongly fancy Spain to beat Germany in the semi for what it's worth.

http://www.electru.de/wp-content/uploads/germany_worldcup2010.jpg

And the next one's in Brazil, and then the next two get cancelled due to all-out global war. Excellent!

Will be so disappointed if it isn't a Deutsch v Dutch final

http://www.chartstats.com/image/s13434_300.jpg

I remember an earlier form of that diagram making the rounds pre-'98 to show that it was England's turn to win.

You could also make a reasonable case that England '66 ≈ France '98. It would be pretty great if Uruguay somehow managed to screw up Brazil in 2014 too.

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I thought germany would run away w/ this

oh, they will.

So everyone thinks it will be a Holland Vs Germany final for sure?

Would be funny if it was Uruguay vs Spain.

So everyone thinks it will be a Holland Vs Germany final for sure?

What, everyone thinks Germany will beat Spain? Since when?

since we decided to revolt against our psychic octopus overlord.

Even the Psychic Octopus is backing Spain!

People be madly overrating Holland here. I think Uruguay might do them this evening.

I think most people misread the question as "Quickfire World Cup Poll #19: front up: who will win the World Cup not?"

People be madly overrating Holland here. I think Uruguay might do them this evening

To expect them to beat Uruguay isn't madly over-rating anything really.

underestimating the spanish too

Spanish have struggled to really impress themselves, despite their undoubted class. I don't know if they'll particularly trouble Germany.

Start by dropping Torres

Don't remember Italy being that impressive either last time round, until suddenly it was like "woah they've won it".

Italy were far more impressive than France

That's Italy though. Pretty much par for the course there.

Start by dropping Torres

Del Bosque has hinted at exactly that and he has Llorente and Silva available.

Italy were far more impressive than France

France looked plucky and managed to scrape by but that was about it.

Llorente would be a real sign that they mean business

Why are they playing a Premiership player anyway, they're crap

Best league in the world, worst players at the World Cup. Richard Keys is sobbing under whips chez Murdoch