ElDiablo

Down about £30 too, with about £20 tied up in other bets. Shocking so far.

Come on the Swiss!

If they lose I cam handle losing seventeen quid. But they better not draw.

I'd bring Pedro on for either Alonso or Busquets, and tell Silva to stop drifting inside so much. The swiss don't really look that stretched at all.

Feel a bit better about England's chances the more I've watched since our game. Nobody seems red hot atm.

He'll have seen that Rooney getting double marked creates space for the other striker. Heskeys not capable of capitalizing on it, so it will be Defoe imo.

They'll have to reel it in a bit in the next two games though, they'll get punished badly at the back against a decent team.

£10 on Chile, Spain, Germany, Ghana. 5.8/1 Pretty shocking odds, tbh. Meh.

I said this the other night when everyone was creaming themselves over Heskey. He had his best game in an England shirt for a while, yet still couldn't put the ball away. The argument about how he creates space for others doesn't apply anymore, Rooney was the one getting double marked, meaning there was a massive gap in behind the whole of the second half. The only time Heskey actually took advantage of it he gifted it straight to Howard. Ridiculous inclusion in the squad, let alone first eleven.

... And Garcia, Brockie and Chol Myong, with Di Maria, Gonzalez, Sneijder, Marquez and Ramos on the bench.

Just checked my team then for the first time, and I've got Jorgensen playing with Gilardino and Fabiano on the bench.

We wouldn't get Spurs away on boxing day, although that would be friggin fantastic for me.

Might go mental tomorrow.

Oh dear.

Imagine England against this lot. We would be utterly clueless.

Hopefully as the tournament goes on and the scramble for tickets gets a bit more frantic and the prices get pushed up, they might become less prevalent. The thing that annoys me is they're utterly fucking pointless, if they were used to create a singing and cheering atmosphere, like the England band, then maybe fair enough. But what's going through these people's minds as they're blowing them? What do they think it's doing? The noise is exactly the same whatever team you support.

Ugh.

Massively tempted to lump on Italy, hmm...

£13 on Italy. Over evens, are Paraguay really that decent?

Ban the fuckers and seek out everyone who has blown one in the last week and give them a slap.

Nicee, first decent win in the WC. Lovely Germans.

Got to be said though, Australia's defence is seriously shit.

Wish we could play like Germany, got the players to do so.

Germans to win to nil. Gomez to score first and 3-0.