spoke to a Croatia fan the other day, he told me that he has little hope for them to get out of the group as his NT always fucks up against South American and African teams and this time they got Brazil, Mexico and Cameroon

although, I do think that Moscow weather and time zone will be far kinder to European teams than South Africa or Brazil, in Germany 2006 6 teams out of 8 in quarterfinals were European and 4 out of 4 in semi's