France 4 Croatia 2

Congratulation to France and Sara Greenhoff. Both are winners.
I will be contacting Sara, Martin and Bob today to arrange the handing over of prize money.
Thanks to everyone for playing. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Here's the final scoreboard.

's the final scoreboard.

Belgium 2 England 0

So 4th place is not bad for an England team that most of us thought were not going to make it to the quarter finals.. It does feel odd not to have a feeling of despondency after an England World Cup Campaign. Perhaps things are changing?

Tomorrow France take on Croatia in the World Cup Final.

If France win, the prediction game will award 20 points to Sara Greenhoff and Martin Mills giving them 1st and second spot respectively. Bob Darch will finish in 3rd. A Croatian win will give Jason Stapleton 15 points and a total equaling Bob Darch's 93. A shared prize pot for them with Jim Halls creeping up into 3rd spot with 89 points.

I hope you've enjoyed this little prediction game again this year. It's been full of surprises.

Thank you again for taking part. I will contact all prize winners after the final tomorrow.

France 1 Belgium 0, England 1 Croatia 2

So that's the Semi-Finals completed. England will be heading home after playing the 3rd place play-off on Saturday. France will play Croatia on Sunday for the trophy.

No-one predicted Croatia would make it through to the final. There are still 35 points available depending the the outcome of Sunday's Final. A French win and 20 points awarded will mean Sara Greenhoff will be in top spot with Martin Mills runner-up. A Croatian victory will mean Bob Darch will stay at the top but will share it the winnings with Jason Stapleton who will get 15 points for predicting France as runners-up. Jim Halls will then jump up the leaderboard into 3rd spot

Good Luck everyone.

Sweden 0 England 2, Russia 2 Croatia 2 ( 3-4 on pens)

I have never been this excited at the prospect of a Semi.

England are into the last 4 along with Croatia, France and Belgium. An all European line-up is something I don't think I've ever seen before.

10 points to Bob Darch, Nick Walton, Connor Rees, Sara Norris, Debbie Moth, Ian Parker, L Lawton, Dave Holder, Jo Beviss and Bob Huntley who all had faith in their national team, shame and a lack of points to the rest of us.

Bob Darch leads the way now and looks in a strong position, providing Belgium beat France on Tuesday.
If not, Sara Greenhoff is looking favourite. Unless Croatia win the trophy. ( I hope you are keeping up with this). A French victory over England in the final will mean Dave Holder pips everyone and grabs the money, ( I think).  If England beat Croatia and then win the whole thing Debbie Moth will win the money and well deserved it will be!

Here is how it stands tonight.

Uruguay 0 France 2, Brazil 1 Belgium 2.

So  now we know the first Semi-Final line-up.
How many of us had France and Belgium in the last 4?
I'll tell you how many...4!

Well done to Bob Darch, Jason Stapleton, Connor Rees and Jim Halls. Bob and Connor have the chance of getting another 10 points tomorrow if England are able to win against Sweden.

Is football coming home??

Good Luck Everyone.

Sweden 1 Switzerland 0, Columbia 1 England 1 ( England win 4-3 on pens)

Exhausted!

Well done Martin Mills for predicting 6 out of the 8 Quarter Finalists.

Brazil 2 Mexico 0, Belgium 3 Japan 2

Brazil breeze through, Belgium scrape through.

Favourites Brazil make it into the last 16 with a 2-0 victory over Mexico while Belgium overcome Japan with the very last kick of the game. With just a few exceptions we all had them both in our last 16 choices.

England play Columbia tomorrow. Only 4 of us (me included) do not think England will make the Quarters. Only Dave Holder and Mel Mitchell stand to win 5 points if Columbia win.

I still can't work out who is in the best position to take the money at this point.

Spain 1 Russia 1 (3-4 on pens) Croatia 1 Denmark 1 (3-2 on pens)

Much fancied Spain leave the competition, crashing out with a woeful performance against Russia.
Denmark failed to impress against Croatia. Both matches decided on penalties, both matches very underwhelming.

Sara Greenhoff now has a 5 point lead after predicting both Russia and Croatia would reach the Quarters. A Mexican win today against Brazil will move her even further ahead.  Most of us have Brazil to progress.