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Good point! Now to panic over Ramires' inclusion

It's on ITV by the way

Brazil: Cesar, Alves, Lucio, Silva, Santos, Lucas, Ramires, Elano, Jadson, Neymar, Leandro Damiao. Luiz is on the bench

ESPN Or not ITV

Agreed, but that's not always a guaranteed victory. It's a funny old game this, the last team to win it in their own back yard was France in '98. Only 6 teams have done similar (Argentina, Uruguay, England, West Germany & Italy). I think Germany will probably have the best shot outside of Brazil. It remains to be seen, how strong Brazil will actually be, come 2014. I'll watch their match today (not that it will form my judgement) but I'm sure it won't be as strong at the '02 team that shook the world.

A lot can happen in 3 years. Germany, Spain, Brazil & perhaps Argentina (if they get their act together) will be the big threats. England, I'm not too hopeful one, considering we're at the stage of too old/too young. France could be a wild card, but we'll have to wait & see if Blanc has restored some discipline into that squad.

Don't forget Ramires

Fair analysis. Not going to pretend I have, all I know is Bertrand has tremendous experience & there must be a reason England consider him their best u21 left back in the country. Unfortunately we must trust the judgement of our management (?) & word of mouth from others.

Let's forget the name Kaká. When this kid's time arrives, let's try to judge him as the individual he is!

Good to see they're all supporting him for moving. It seems they were all urging him to leave Liverpool

Drogba is a bigger risk. At least Kalou and Torres complimented each other and gave the other chances. Drogba & Torres have not clicked yet, so it would be an even bigger risk to try them out.

Sturridge reiterates commitment to Chelsea

Benayoun an unused sub in Israel's match tonight. Maybe we can except an appearance from him vs Stoke

True! Not to mention his manager haha. But that's why Ferreira is a more than useful asset to the club

A 19-year old, making his first competitive debut can't have that much player-power can he?!

Ah come on, I don't think it was at Wilshere's request. Everyone had their numbers changed, Rooney went from 9 to 10 as well. Wilshere took 4 last time but that was given to Parker because he was playing holding so I think it was because of the formation. Wasn't a player decision I don't think.. 1 2 - 5 - 6 - 3 7 - 4 - 8 11 - 9 - 10

True, but Luiz is 23, so he has plenty of time

When Luiz learns English, we'll see a much more togetherness about this squad, that's for sure!

First defeat in a while. Sigh..

Crapello won't go beyond Euro 2012 anyway

LMAO well SkySports have made their feelings about Terry being captain obvious. Their opening video for Euro2012 Qualifiers have Steven Gerrard as the mascot with the armband Update: Now they have Gary Neville & Ryan Giggs as pundits. They may as well say "Fuck John T*rry"

I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally need to stop drinking so much.. /hangover

that bad huh?!

Ribery looks out of it lately. Even in the Bayern games vs Inter Milan he looked quite average and not near what he was hyped. That under-age prostitution thing really has taken its toll on his football it seems. He's 26 though, so he's got time to improve on that.