The Group of Life

So here is the draw in full…

Group A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France
Group B: Argentina, South Korea, Nigeria, Greece,
Group C: England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia
Group D: Germany, Australia, Ghana, Serbia
Group E: Holland, Japan, Cameroon, Denmark,
Group F: Italy, New Zealand, Paraguay, Slovakia
Group G: Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal
Group H: Spain, Honduras, Chile, Switzerland.

Click for links to the fixtures and to the team profiles on the Telegraph website.

It couldn’t have gone much better for England. The bookies shaved half a point off their odds in the wake of it, making them 11/2 from 6/1, and clear third favourites.

We can’t really win it… can we?