It's that time again...

The World cup may be almost two full years away, but already we have the fever.

I've been awake at night for months, planning my verbal assault on whoever receives Ravi's support this time around. Being a loyal kind of chap, my love affair with Swedish football is far from over.. and the home nations? I'm in with Scotland, I'm half-Scottish thus I can do such things. England's uninspiring and shambolic football, played by a bunch of greasy, over paid, fat, nancy-boys has pissed me off one too many times.

So, in keeping with previous coverage of the European Championships, I'm going to make my qualification predictions below, let the arguments commence;

The final distribution fo qualiying positions looks like this;

Europe (UEFA): 13 places
Africa (CAF) : 5 places (South Africa qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 6 places)
South America (CONMEBOL) : 4 or 5 places
Asia (AFC) : 4 or 5 places
North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF) : 3 or 4 places
Oceania (OFC) : 0 or 1 place

S. American Qualifying Predictions;
Argentina
Ecuador
Paraguay
Brazil
Uruguay

African Qualifying Predictions;
S. Africa [obviously]
Nigeria
Egypt
Senegal
Cameroon
Ghana

Europe Qualifying Predictions (those in italics will qualify for 2nd stage quals ONLY and NOT Finals);
Portugal
Sweden
Czech Republic
Poland
Russia
Germany
Finland
Spain
Turkey
England
Croatia
Ukraine
France
Serbia
Scotland
Norway

Asia Qualifying Predictions;
Australia
Japan
South Korea
Iran

Oceania Predictions;
No Qualifiers predicted

North, Central America and Carribean;
USA
Canada
Mexico
Trinidad & Tobago

There we go, fire at will!