Mass hysteria is setting in down south and England are the bookies biggest liability,having started the tournament at 18/1 they have been backed into 9/1.The other day a game scheduled for Talk Sport was shifted over to Talk Sport 2( which is only available up here on digital)so they could spend around 6 hours discussing England.
What they are not factoring in is how easy their group is compared to some of the giants of the game,they are purring over the Germans and Brazil struggling but they have played,Mexico,Sweden,Switzerland and Costa Rica,all of them have a decent world cup pedigree compared to Panama and Tunisia.
Not only did they land in a very weak group they were fortunate to get Belgium last game because i am certain a full strength Belgium in the opening game would have blown them away and put them under huge pressure to get out of the group.Another slice of luck was landing next to group H,i backed against Poland and i never really fancied Japan with their choice of keeper but if they get Columbia i think its 50/50 any of the other 2 still in it and its the quarter finals at least.