I'm backing England...

[MoeFOH]

They've got to be due, surely? (Stop calling me Shirley!) And there's something about this campaign... When that goal went in off Harry Kane against Panama, it was literally like the Great Magnet was in their corner. A striker you only have to kick the ball at, hit him anywhere, and it goes in is surely a good thing, no? 

I think they've had a lot more fancied teams than this one, down the years, and have failed to produce. Perhaps waiting for the bamboozling effect of a waistcoated manager was the missing ingredient? We shall see...

Anyhow, with me on their back I've put them to the ultimate test. Sorry, Poms (well, not really). In the height of his powers, I could've made Phar Lap run last at a Werribee maiden by putting five bucks on the nose.