Eight Teams Could Win It!

So it has started. The World Cup predictions industry. Wickman loves it. Apparently there are eight good teams in the tournament. And one of them could win it. Wow! First of all we get Sir Viv. Now Sir Viv has a ground opening to publicise. So first of all he wades into the England team. England, he says, are unlikely to win the World Cup. Well blow me down IVA. You are predicting that a team that has won a handful of games in the last year - and has been absolutely dicked on by Sri Lanka in its own back garden over the Summer - might struggle to win the World Cup? Well done. You haven't lost it. Then he says West Indies might win it! Wickman could be knocked over with a feather. And his justification? No one who has hosted the World Cup has won it so this is an opportunity - Wickman paraphrases... but you're catching what he is pitching. Some real PR brains have worked on that statement. And this wise old sage sums it up and tells us - no word of a lie - "Any one of eight teams could be competitive - there are eight good ones at the tournament." Stephen Fleming is more circumspect. He thinks Australia aren't playing quite as well as they were so the tournament may be a bit more open than we might have thought. Well goodness gracious... He goes on to tell us that South Africa might win because they have just beaten Pakistan. And... "We're going into a World Cup where on any given day there's up to eight teams that can win it". Wickman is off down the bookies with the equity in the Wick pavillion...