Whose your money on to win the World cup this summer?

[Neecha]

Im going for Argentina with an outside bet on Belgium. Messi and Aguero looks too dangerous to stop

 

[Trufflehound]

Scotland.



Oh, hang on...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Belgium have some fabulous players but I wonder if this is a tournament too early for them all. Good teams tend to build up over a few years, and if they could make the semi finals this time out, it would leave them in a great place for Euro 2016. They've been nowhere really since the mid 1980s & it's a big mental jump to go from barely qualifying to potential winners, no matter how good they are.

That and no European team has ever won the World Cup on South American soil I think?

 

[Giraffe]

England, we're going to piss it.

Win all group games by at least 3 goals, then 5-0 in each of the knock out rounds before thumping Brazil 7-0 in their own back yard in the final.

 

[Neecha]

England, we're going to piss it.

Win all group games by at least 3 goals, then 5-0 in each of the knock out rounds before thumping Brazil 7-0 in their own back yard in the final.

we wont get out the group

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Im going for Argentina with an outside bet on Belgium. Messi and Aguero looks too dangerous to stop

Same as you. Argentina look clear favourites to me.

Begium to reach the semis, might be decent. See what the odds are when all the COUPONS come out.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Brazil. The home crowd will be a huge advantage. Argentina probably won't get a moment's kip.

 

[Mellotron]

Definitely Argentina or Brazil.

 

[Simster]

I can't see beyond that perennial HOTBED of football, QATAR.

But if for some unexplainable reason they didn't make Brazil, then I'll go for the hosts or Argentina, with the other semi finalists being made up of two from Uruguay, Spain and Belgium.

When was the last time we qualified for a WC and failed to get out of the group stages? I think we will see that this year. Uruguay and Italy will go through at our expense.

 

[Mellotron]

Belgium won't do as well as some are predicting. Plenty of good players, but ZERO experience in a World Cup. They'll get done by someone wily like Italy or Uruguay in the first knockout stage.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Outside of the obvious countries, I think Uruguay might do OK with another unfashionable South American country to surprise a few with a decent run.

 

[Icy Gull]

Surely all Albion fans will be backing Uruguay once England are dumped out? No doubt Gus will enthuse about his homeland as a tv pundit. Hope he doesn't get sacked whilst on air though

 

[surrey jim]

Thinking of a few quid on both Chilie and Belgium each way bets.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I do enjoy that people, all of a sudden have sat up and noticed Belgium. So many people have called them "Dark Horses" that they couldn't be less so.

For what it's worth I don't think Belgium have a hope in hell when you actually look at their squad in the context of the opposition squads.

My tip? Germany to go to South America and break the non-european winners run.

 

[crodonilson]

COLOMBIA

They've got a good group and recently impressively dispatched of Belgium in their own backyard. Not sure of all the hype towards Belgium, they were tipped sometime back as dark horses but they're now one of the fave's, I wonder how they'll cope in South America and in their first major tournament for many years. In any case I think all of the European countires may struggle to adapt to South American conditions.

I like Colombia's group and the one they're paired with at the first knockout round, from there they could easily do a Uruguay and with some momentum they could go far.

 

[Mellotron]

Ridiculous for Belgium to be considered anywhere near faves. I know Crodo is a WUM but some people have ACTUALLY been talking about them as one of the "faves". They definitely aren't.

 

[Puppet Master]

Germany.

 

[Hillian1]

I have a feeling that Uruguay will do well this time round, possibly even finalists.

 

[Munkfish]

Belgium LOLZ. no good squad, may have a chance in the Euros but lets get real.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Off the top of my head

Neuer
Hummels
Mertesacker
Boateng
Lahm
Ozil
Schweinsteiger
Podolski
Gundogan
Muller
Kroos
Reus
Gotze
Bender
Draxler
Klose
Gomez



Not a bad group of players there