2014 World Cup Draw: England Best & Worst Group Stage Scenarios

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As the men at FIFA get ready to fiddle with their balls, here’s a close look at what kind of draw could await Roy Hodgson and his merry men.

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With the World Cup draw just hours away and the finals themselves merely months from now it’s time to take a look at just how hard, or indeed easy, England’s group stage could prove.

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England are of course in Pot 4 though could find their way into Pot 2 which would in theory lead to Roy Hodgson’s men finding themselves in a ‘Group of Death’.

The worst case scenario could see England securing the group below, that we like to call ‘Group of ‘Certain’ Death’

Brazil
England
United States
Holland

However a less pessimistic ordering of the draw could leave England with the group below, which we will now term ‘Group of Ease (in theory)’

Switzerland
Algeria
Costa Rica
England

Now that’s a draw England could not fail to negotiate, right?

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