Croatia stands no chance in this match. Croatian team­ is a good team but not good enough to beat England this­ time. Especially keeping in mind that overrated Modric­ is not playing. This English team is a much better and­ more chesive team and will not underestimate Croat­ side. I think we are looking at a 3:1 England's win­ tonight. Personally I can not stand that arrogant @#$%­ Rooney but I am huge fan of English football because of­ players like Terry, Lampard, Gerard etc..

Good luck to­ both teams!!

You said "lifestyle". Yes this is why­ Brazilians and Italians can win the tile but not­ England, at least not now. You mean fewer kids play­ football now, and this is why England football are­ going from "Good" to "not that­ Good"? Well, Im saying England football are going­ from "Bad" to "Worse", becasue­ English national team had never been "good"­ enough in the past 20 years. How many time have we­ naively started talking about winning the titles before­ the events start? And how many times have we been­ humiliated by some "unexpected",­ "shocking" defeats. We need to be realistic­ and face squarely to these "records", and­ admit that we are not good enough, yet. This is the­ motivation for us to be struggling desperately to get­ better, instead of the self-deceptions like "we­ are just not lucky". Dropping the ball once in­ cricket might mean you are not lucky; dropping the ball­ 10 times means you suck in cricket!

Slaven Bilic = Genius, lets hope the Croatia players­ duly follow the order!

I meant the Germans !!! So basically what you are­ saying is, England cannot win the world cup because all­ the players in the epl are foreign, England have a very­ good set of players where most of the first team would­ play for any of the other int teams,
you seem to forget­ football is big business and maybe the downturn in­ quality youngsters coming through the ranks is due to­ the lifestyle, kids just don`t play football like they­ used to. There is more opportunity now which gives kids­ a chance to become pros with football acadamy`s all­ over the place set up by clubs but the talent is not as­ good as it was so basically youre talking @#$%.

This is exactly what Im syaing. Italy won the title­ with no stars, becasue of a lottery-winning good luck. ­ The luck is so good that even now some ppl are still­ talking about the so-called conspiracy where italy won­ abnormally. If you see one the newspaper someoen­ winning the lottery, and you start buying lotteries­ crazily, Im telling you mate, you will end up being a­ bin dipper. So what should you do? Yes! use the money­ to get some education and make yourself more­ qualified!!! This is what England need to do right­ now. Forget about the world cups in the next 10 years;­ have more English players in the top teams of the­ league; more investment into young player raising up­ schemes. If all the stupid clubs could throw 1% more­ of all the outrageously high transferr fees into young­ player schemes, the England squad wouldn't have­ been so trash now.

AND WHAT PLAYERS WERE THEM SEXYBEAST ? England­ will have a chance to win the world cup as will Spain­ etc, what superstars have Spain got ? they have very­ good players same as England but play much better as a­ team, Exactly what Capello is trying to get England to­ do... don`t you think ??

sexy.beast08, who are the Italian superstars when they­ won the last world cup? The most known is the lazy­ Totti who was there in the previous world and European­ championships and did sweat f*** all. Their real­ superstar was the coach, Lippi.

Germany did have super stars when they won titles 20­ years ago and earlier. So did Italy. But look at how­ germany was deliberately beaten by Brazil in the 2002­ world cup final. Italy in 2006? Come on, you won't­ forget their last-minute penalty against Australia and­ the guy that was "almost killed" by­ Zidone's bold head, will you? We can't rely on­ some kind of speculation. If that is the case, then­ chinese would have reasons to be believe they can win­ world cup as well. We need REAL QUALITY!!! more­ talented players!!! not quantity, quality!!!

SexyBeast08 Your comment in a way makes no sense, as­ how many times has Ronaldo won with Portugal, Messi­ with Argentina, Brazil has always been great team, but­ the problem is not being able to dance around players,­ Italy Don't, Germany Don't and both have great­ World Cup records.

isnt it time us English remember what supporting your­ team really means ... ie whether good or bad .. you­ support them..... whether win or loose ... you support­ them ..... we are a tiny little country with a small­ small chance of actually competing in this World cup­ ..... Support our boys ... support your country ....­ and if either of those things are a challenge to you ­ .... change the team you (allegedly) support ... ­ c'mon people its time to follow our teams lead ..­ positive and upbeat ... Not writing 'us' off b4­ we even actual get there !! ... I hope all you­ 'anti' English remember just how frail your­ support was if we actually do anything at this World­ cup .. But something tells me you will very soon be­ parading round in your England shirts telling the world­ you are a true England supporter .....

Is'nt it nice to see that the traditional sporting­ element in football is being upheld by Slaven Bilic.­ Why are we not hearing the voices we hear from the­ worlds so called Football Associations condemning his­ remarks to rile Rooney to get him to react in temper­ with the sole view of getting him sent off. It shows­ that these biased Associations would like to see­ England the most sporting team in the competition­ eliminated by fair means or foul. They will always back­ the actions of people like Bilic as they hate to see­ England having any success in the competitions. Even a­ remark like this from Bilic, his Croatian scout Goran­ Vucevic and the actions of the Croatian midfielder­ Rakiti who has started already to follow Bilics­ instructions to wind Rooney up should be enough to have­ Croatia banned from taking part in what is supposed to­ be a sporting competition.

Did you not see how Jole Cole behaved like a clown when­ trying to dribble in the match against Brazil? Do you­ guys think Lampard, Gerrard or Lennon can be considered­ by most coaches as good as Ronaldiniho, Kaka, C­ Ronaldo, Messi or even Febrigas? Do you think Rooney­ or Defoe is as talented as Drogba, Torres, or Tevez? ­ Come on, the statistics of EPL is just in front of your­ eyes, and you can't see? Be realistic ppl!!! it­ won't be England's any chance in the next 10­ years, until one day we have a real genius, like C­ Ronaldo or Ronaldiniho.

ROONEY CLEARLY DIVED AND THE REF FELL FOR IT (no pun­ intended) and while we are trying to stop this at club­ level, the same must apply at international level, and­ that includes intentional cheating, even in a friendly

Im not a utd fan but rooney on his day is unstoppable­ and for england to get anywhere he is vital, i hope he­ does not get injured and i hope we woop croatias @#$%,­ come on england, and to be honest you know every team­ is guilty off a dive here or there but something has to­ be done about the refs

Rooney should have stayed on his feet and he­ didn't, what do you call that??

It's gonna be an interesting game
Remember games in­ the past when Croatia played Germany
They would spend­ the whole 90 minutes kicking lumps out of the Germans­ because of the history between the two Countries
Looks­ like they have now declared war on England!

If win win all the group games it will have been a­ great achievement not enough for me to say were world­ cup winners. We certainly need a few more tweaks, our­ style is a bit more boring now, but we grind out­ results, many a title winner has done this. Be good to­ have a Johnson Walcott right wing, as Lennon and­ Phillips just lacking an end product. I think tomorrow­ be a draw something like a 1 - 1.

davidman FU*K OFF @#$%