Mexico and Chile look forward as England prepare for friendly

Group   A

Cameroon   1              Brazil    4

Matip (26)                             Neymar (17, 34)

                                              Fred (49)

                                              Fernandinho (84)

Croatia        1              Mexico    3

Persic  (87)                             Marquez (73)

                                               Guardado (75)

                                               Hernandez (82)

Brazil and Mexico finish Group A as winners and runners up respectively, as Count Kovac's Croatia and the hapless Cameroon are off this morning to catch the plane home.  Kovac will obviously be shipped out encased in an air tight box as not to be exposed to direct sunlight, either that or he will just take a later flight undercover of darkness. MOOWHAAHAHAHA!

Group   B

Australia   0             Spain     3

                                          Villa (36)

                                           Torres (69)

                                           Mata (82)

Holland     2               Chile    0

Fer (77)

Memphis (90)

Spain finally won a game in a major tournament for the first time in what 3 games?  A 3-0 victory meant plucky Australia finished bottom of the pile in Group B.  Holland top the group and Chile will now play Brazil in the next round after a very creditable second place finish.  The scorer of the Dutch 2nd goal is actually Depay, but he has the nickname Memphis because of his love of the character in the film Happy Feet of the same name.  

If you have never seen the film Happy Feet, don't bother it's crap.

Tonight England play in one of their favourite type of games, a meaningless friendly against Costa Rica.  Roy has decided that it is time to blood some of the youngsters and drop some of the old guard, and give Frank Lampard the captains armband for what will almost certainly be his last ever England game.   With the defence he is playing tonight I can see us losing about 3-0 and Roy Hodgeson will be the only English manager whose team has come out pointless at a world cup.  I will obviously watch it though because I couldn't give a shit who wins between Italy and Uruguay.