The Countdown is On

As managers are announcing their preliminary squads, we too are putting the final touches to our How to Play leaflet and hope to have this out to you in the coming days.

With days before we are go, rumours are flying about that the Greek Government was keen to sponsor one of the Incentive Prizes. The Germans have since caught wind of this and have flown into a fit, demanding that their hard earned tax payers money could go onto something more practical. John Terry's manager has also been in contact with us but we flatly refused his offer due to the player's demands that the competition be renamed to the John Terry Tipping Competition.

We generally like setting our sights on a particular team, player or manager at every tournament and it seems that the Greatest Centre Back on the Planet, John Terry, according to John Terry himself, is going to be our man for South Africa 2010.

For all those England fans or those who have England as their second favourite team, here is a worthy article written by Paul Wilson from The Observer newspaper and his case for Gary Nevile and the theory of the right back. Joey S will not be impressed. Though blimy it almost almost makes sense-the Gary Neville part Joey.

Mr Chelsea John Terry, our man in South Africa