7 bold predictions ahead of the 2014 Brazil World Cup

3) Expect Spain’s choke-hold on major tournaments to be finally broken….

Spain’s dominance will end

Maybe I’m just bored of the repeated image of Iker Casillas’s smug gurn as he lifts trophy after trophy after trophy for Spain? But I think 2014 is really the year when Spain‘s grip on every major championship they enter is broken. The way in which they capitulated in the Confederations Cup Final shows to me defensive frailties that I have long suspected to be there. Furthermore, the lack of a “world-class” striker beyond Alvaro Negredo is worrying for the Spanish- certainly the 4-6-0 formation does not seem to me the right way to go about things.

If nothing else, by the law of averages- surely Spain can’t win again? So if they can’t who will? Well…..