After watching England take Ireland, the world's No 2 ranked team, apart in Dublin with an awesome display of power and skill, I thought they might be worth a little bet for the World Cup. I don't think the bookies get an awful lot wrong, but my eyes light up when they do, and they've surely not come to terms with today's result in the WC betting yet.

Ireland are generally 4/1, I'm on England @ 13/2, and when I saw that price my small bet became a much larger one. Fill your boots.