A bit of a bumper poll – I am travelling over the weekend, so I’m including both Saturday’s and Sunday’s matches, and also inviting you to speculate on what we’ll be looking at this time next week.


I’m not going to bother with the FIFA rankings; if you really want them, they are recorded in previous polls. The highest rated team not to make it was the current holder, Italy; the lowest rated team that did make it was South Korea. 만세 !!!

All four results on the last day of the group stage were called correctly by , , , , and . Congrats to them all. (I personally had hopes for Chile and Switzerland.)