I too have also worried about an English win,i along with a few others on this board remain scarred with a lifetime of them going on about 66 and showing the whole match on the eve of almost every world cup tournament since that they have qualified for. I do agree with Japan Arab though regarding their defence and keeper,to leave out over £300,000,000 of talent from forward area's yet take an unfit left back(their only one)who may miss most of the group stages shows how lop sided their squad is.

I have a decent record of picking the winner of the Euro's and the World Cup and had Argentina and Italy in the last two tournaments.In 2010 i was in the fortunate position of having both teams i had picked in the final,Spain v Holland and could not lose.This time i am going for France to win it with Spain as my back up.

Just to pick up on a couple of earlier posts,England are indeed the bookies favourites but that is very heavily weighted with patriotic betting and France were minus a few key players in Qatar yet still made the final,as far as i'm aware all these players are available this time.I would say the main threat to my bets are the Germans rather than the English but who know's for definate eh?.