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World Cup Twitter Replay

The Guardian made this thing that I find absolutely fascinating.

England to win World Cup 2010

From memory, this report correctly picked both Spain’s recent win at Euro ’08 and Italy’s win at the World Cup ’06. In-ger-land, In-ger-land! World_Cup_2010 (PDF)

Spain’s road to World Cup winners

Here’s a little spreadsheet I made to explore the match-ups for next year’s World Cup. http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlIPOY40CH-ddEtjNnVNWDNRVG1fRUtMWnJVQ2RZd2c&hl=en I reckon Spain can do it through their strength up front, but their defense is pretty shoddy. Be surprised if one of them doesn’t at least win the Golden Boot. England has a fair shot too, if they  can [...]