Marcus Speller

I was really impressed with them when they beat England.

I mean, England were crap that day, but fine.

That's not the point.

The point is, the way Japan played, there's a clear identity, there's a clear pattern of play, there's a clear strategy, et cetera, et cetera.

And they've just brought that into the World Cup.

And it's going very, very well for them.

So, yes.

But Japan all over smacked of a team that will get to about the quarterfinal.

Yeah, of course.

But I don't think they'll go on to win it.

I just think it's got a heroic defeat to France and the court has written all over it.

And this is it, isn't it?

It's like Chile will do really well when they get to a World Cup and they'll almost always inevitably lose narrowly, maybe even on penalties to Brazil earlier than they should.

Yeah, I think...

Next cut the same.

Yeah, because with the World Cup, it's not like the Euros where we have seen, you know, Denmark and Greece are the obvious two examples.

Go on and win it.

If you're being... If you were being a bit generous, you could maybe extend that to Portugal when, you know, they weren't playing very, very well.

But obviously Portugal, bigger football nation.

But with the World Cup...