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Continuing our look at teams for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, this week we look at Group B

Argentina
Ranked 8 by FIFA
Winners in 1978 and 1986
Manager: Diego ‘Hand of God’ Maradona
Key Player: Lionel Messi
World footballer of the year by some margin
Footballbits Group prediction –  winners
Nigeria
Ranked 22 FIFA
Best World cup – 2nd round 1994 and [...]

Obviously just 2 defeats in 17 games just isnt good enough for a ‘big club’ like Manchester City….
Tonight they sacked manager Mark Hughes after the 4-3 win over Sunderland, here is the club statement announcing the departure of Hughes and the appointment of Roberto Mancini as his replacement as shown on their website:
Manchester City FC [...]

Didnt get a chance to do some predictions last time around, so here’s what I think is going to happen this weekend
Arsenal v Hull  2-0
Aston Villa v Stoke  2-1
Blackburn v Tottenham  1-0
Fulham v Man Utd  1-3
Man City v Sunderland  2-1
Portsmouth v Liverpool  0-1
Everton v Birmingham 1-2
West Ham v Chelsea 0-2
Wolverhampton v Burnley  2-1
Wigan v Bolton  [...]

Just 6 months to go until the World Cup starts in South Africa so its a good time to start having a look at the teams involved. We’ll start this week with Group A
France
Ranked 7 by FIFA
Winners in 1998
Manager: Raymond Domenench
Key Player: Franck Ribery
Not the most popular of the qualified teams because of the way [...]

Yeah OK so this has got absolutely nothing to do with football at all but I think its great !!

Turn up the sound and enjoy…