FIFA World Cup group stages

[budgetmeansbudget]

The pitch at the Marracana still hasn't been laid, and we all know what happens with freshly laid pitches.

Guess the same thing maybe happening with the other stadia.

[shankycricket]

What are we expecting the England XI to be?

[dan08]

What are we expecting the England XI to be?

Same XI that played against Peru and Honduras i would think.

[Gingerfinch]

Sterling for Welbeck?

[Aidan11]

LOL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

[yuppie]

LOL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

You just cant make this up. Says anything to stay in power.

[SaintPowelly]

Putin and Blatter should swap roles, see if anyone notices differences in the regimes.

[Gingerfinch]

My team would be:

.................................Hart..........................

Johnson..........Cahill...................Jagielka..................Baines

..............................Gerrard...................................

.................Rooney........................Wilshere..................

Sterling........................Sturridge.............................Lallana

[budgetmeansbudget]

I really don't think Mr Blatter understands what racism is.

[Aidan11]

He may be upset that we are being offensive to brown envelopes.

[yuppie]

I really don't think Mr Blatter understands what racism is.

Well maybe the best way to solve this incident is with a handshake:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/15757165

I would agree, he has no idea what racism is. It would be amazing if the british papers are sued, then all the information will be made public. It will be interesting to see how the European delegates also respond to Blatter after his 2 standing ovations from Asian and African delegates. They will keep voting for him if he keeps making them money. But Europe is a different matter.

[yuppie]

a bit long, but worth watching

[Durhamfootman]

He may be upset that we are being offensive to brown envelopes.

racist and size-ist

my guess is he would only be upset if we were to be offensive to fat, brown envelopes

[Durhamfootman]

I found this teletext item quite amusing.

apparently Roy has 'tried to calm mounting expectation surrounding his squad's youngsters before the World Cup in Brazil'
Roy said.......
"lets see good performance in an England shirt before we say they're world beaters"

Eeeeeeeee

I nearly wet myself

not sure who is suffering this 'mounting expectation' but I would suggest they must be either hard of thinking, delusional, mad, or are very, very drunk

I doubt that people will thinking 'world beaters' by the end of England's second match, 5 days into their world cup campaign, with no chance of qualification and just a dead rubber to look forward to

*modded* world beaters

[Aidan11]

I can see countries breaking away from FIFA if they continue the way they are.

It seems working for FIFA is a licence to print money. Who is holding them to account?

If they don't start getting rid of the corruption which appears to go right to the top then Qatar might end up winning the WC in 2022 as they will be the only country competing.