The Conservative's Prayer

Takes courage (?) to fly in the face of scientists and evidence. Unfortunately the power of economics has the upper hand and under our present system this is understandable. The expense involved in making radical changes for all of us is quite a cliff to climb.
Progress is being made but it is slow and it's not clear that we have the luxury of time on our side. We seem to be delaying the inevitable. Time, unfortunately, will tell.

FIFA Germany

Always a powerful contender,  Germany has  reached the latter stages of the World Cup not a few times . Disciplined and strong in attack and defence, they have a good chance of "being up there". They are  a youthful side and have the potential to outlast many of their opponents. They never seem to give up and will try to the last second to win by an even greater margin or strive to avoid losing the match. I'm not much of a connoisseur but by all accounts they should doing well. The main disadvantage as with many European sides is that they will be playing in an atmosphere abuzz with South American temperament , where soccer truly is  King.