 Welcome to ToffeeTV, we're continuing our preview of the Whale Cup given it kicks off this week. You're excited about the Whale Cup? Oh, I didn't even introduce you, I'm joined by Sarah, helping from the blue room and many other things. Lovely young lady and a noisy motorbike. And a noisy motorbike. Yeah, are you excited about the Whale Cup? Do you know what? I really am actually. Yeah. It's nice because with Everton and the Premier League and everything like that, I think I care too much and it's like if it doesn't go the right way, it can really ruin my mood. Whereas I care just about the right amount about the World Cup, you know, so with England, I do want to see England do well, but there's so many other exciting countries to watch, you know, Brazil, France, Germany. So we're in for a treat, aren't we? It's great and it's great to just watch football and just enjoy the game rather than the emotion and the heartache that goes with Everton, isn't it? And the pressure. And it's on all the time. We were just saying, weren't we like... I was saying to you there, I said to me, Mrs, June the 16th Saturday, just do whatever you want that day because basically there's four games on and you won't be seeing me go and do whatever else. And you mess since you get one and she's in charge of all the money. And that's it, you know what I mean? It'll just be get up, do me 250 steps every hour to make sure I'm moving and watch all the games. That's it. But we're talking about Group F here. There it is, Germany, Mexico, Sweden and Korea. Germany, surely to get through this group. They'll walk it, won't they? They've got to. I think for me, Germany, they've got to be one of the favorites for the entire tournament. I think they'll be. I've got to, I'm going with Brazil, but I think it's going to be. Yeah, I like Brazil to win. So do I. I absolutely love, even being honest, I love, I love Brazil. I'd really do and they, who I, I'd like England to win it, but I'm not really that ass of things. But Brazil, I really would love to win because I love Brazil. I've grown up and the goal, the goal, Kate and you know, just fantastic. But Germany, I think at the top quality side still the world champions, of course. Yeah. And I just think they've got so much know-how in this tournament. You know, they just, like the last, the 2014 on Argentina were mustard. Yeah. Played Germany. Germany spanned Brazil 7-1 in their own country and then obviously won it. So you can't really see past Germany, certainly in this group. There's no way that they're not going to qualify for this is there. I'd eat my hat to be honest, if. I don't know whether it's, it's a nice hat to be fair. It's all right, isn't it? But I don't think you'd enjoy that, Sarah. I don't think I would, so I'm hoping the boys. The boys don't let me down. Else I'll be on in a week or two. It's no good. Eating this very hot. You will, because we're just filming. You're eating it. And that's it. I'm a woman of my word. You will. You will. So then you go. I'll eat this hat. What would you eat with it? What would you put on it? Because you can't just eat it. I do like. If you had to put a condiment on it, what would you? I like spice. I'm a sucker for Tabasco. So yeah, Tabasco I'd have almost everything. That'd be. I'd have been a bit. I would have, wouldn't it? Yeah. Let's get back to the footage. You do this to me bad. I'm sorry, son. No, it's just you do on throwing off the things you're going to eat. Your hat and stuff. Obviously they've got players like Hazel. You know, Tony Cruz is fabulous footballer. Man, well knew it. This fit again out of keeper. Captain. Cracking keeper as well, isn't he? Unreal. Unreal. Thomas Muller, who's a really, you know, I think he's underrated Muller. He's graped by him, you know what I think he's underrated when people talk about the best plays in the world. And oh, he's not, he's not silky footballer. But that's the difference, isn't it? Yeah. People look to you, Christiana and Aldo, you're messy as the two because of their tricks and their flair and everything. Whereas Muller maybe goes under the radar a little bit. But for me, he falls into that category of world class. You know, absolute world class, top class. Definitely. But the one, I suppose the one to watch, if there's a one to watch is Timo Verne, who's obviously a Red Bull, Leipzig and Young German striker. A lot of European clubs looking at it and trying to buy him last year. How many? How many signings do we always say, you know? Well, I think we went for him, didn't we? And they wanted 70 million. I think we wanted, we offered about 50. And we're probably like, no, I want to pay him more. But he's a fantastic footballer. Yeah. This summer, I think a lot of the bigger boys will be keeping an eye on it. If he does okay. That's all you have to do. On this stage, you know, you play a couple of good World Cup games and that's it. The price, the inflation, because literally the whole world is watching you. So it's one thing to be, you know, doing it on stage in the Bundesliga or whatever, but you go and you put on that Germany shirt and you're out there smashing it and all kinds are going to come in. I think, I think we probably missed our window there, haven't we? Yeah, I think so. Pretty we couldn't have put Snellen in the French squad and nobody going on the Williams in the Welsh squad. Mexico, let's move on. So we think Germany are going to win a deep. They won every qualifying game at 100% record in qualifying. So they've kind of put their marker down in the sand, haven't they, of what a side they are. Mexico, with Carlos Vela there, they've got some good plays. He's playing out in a Lesnar Vela for LAFC. Got Dos Santos, who we know from his time at Spurs and really do with it. In fact, he's an LA Galaxy. Players like Hernandez, who's at West Ham, Cicharito, who didn't do as well as possibly people thought he might at West Ham. I thought he was going to have a really good season when they signed him last summer. I actually thought West Ham were going to be one of the ones to kind of watch. Obviously, that wasn't how it turned out in the end. But they made some big signings and I thought getting Hernandez in. I'd always really rated him. I thought he's going to be a bit of quality for them. But he's not really shown that this season. It was a bit of a right off for West Ham as well, wasn't it? So who knows, maybe he'll come good on the big stage here when he's out representing his country. But they've got some decent players, Mexico. They're a tough team to beat. And we were talking as well, weren't we, about the man to watch, younger Lozano. Lozano, obviously linked with Everton, yeah. What do you think of him? I think he looks very good. He's looked very good in the Dutch League, obviously. He was good in Mexico, hence why Marcel Brands took him to PSP in the first place. And the Mexicans are very excited about him. So I'm going to be interested to see what he's like on that stage. He looks good on YouTube, but so does everybody. This is it, or the amount. I look good on YouTube. Paircroll's looked good on YouTube. I don't even know if YouTube is going, then, to be honest. To be fair, it's one of them. But he's exciting. I mean, fast is either kind of play you'd like to see. 100%. We were saying earlier, weren't we, if you look at the youngsters we've got to come back in, hopefully one of the main things I'm hoping for is that look one comes in and is given a real chance this season. If you think we've got Theo Walcott as well, even Nicola Vlasic and then we have to get someone like Lozano in, there's really young, exciting players. Even Walcott's still not, you know, he's still around for everybody. He's still only 27, 28, isn't he? And that's really healthy competition then as well. And I think Lozano's obviously worked with Marcel Brands before at PSP. He's come out and said, I wouldn't rule anything out. And that's one of the World Cup as well. It's a good chance to look at these players that we've been linked with and get more of a feel for them. The only problem is sometimes when you buy players off the back of a World Cup, you don't want to do too well. And they've shone on that stage and you go, they come and don't do anything. But they were undefeated as well in qualifications. So, you know, and that's the opening game, isn't it? Germany and Mexico. It will be. I mean, do you see them as the true favourites to get out of the group? I'd probably say so, yes. I think Mexico have probably got a bit more in their locker than Sweden and Korea have. I mean, when I think of Korea, I think of Russia. And that's it, you know. And I think there's quite a few countries like that in the World Cup, isn't it? Everyone seems to have their star. It's only like your Germany, your Brazil. If you go through the teams, though, you do. And you go, God, he plays for them, doesn't he? And he plays for them, isn't he? Like, someone like Egypt, they've got. And if it doesn't play, you go, I didn't know. I forgot he was Egyptian. You know, you start looking and going, actually, that seems all right, you know. I mean, with Mexico, I think Mexico, it's tough. But I think Korea will be fit. They always have a decent World Cup as well. Because they're so... They've always seen a very united team and they work hard. And with Sun, Sun's absolutely brilliant. They've got Lee Jung Chung as well, who plays for Crystal Palace. They didn't have a great season for them. And you've got Hee Chan, I think, he won, who plays for Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg, who done very well in the Europa League. So they have got players who can cause cause problems, you know. And I think, again, it's the first group game, is the one. If Korea were to beat Sweden, then they're right in the mix then. You know, they get two draws against these, two, five points. I think you're getting out of the group. So it's going to be interesting. Sweden, haven't sucked Latin. No. The thing with him, if it is, it's mad he's scored four goals in his last two games for the League Galaxy over in the States. He was asked a while ago, would he be going the World Cup? He said, they're on to me every day. I don't know, we'll see. So I don't know, he just omitted them, or he wouldn't commit to them, so he's not in it. And now he's moaning that he's not in it. They haven't got the talent man there. So you're like, well, you probably should have said, then, I'll go. I want to go, you know. I can't see why on Earth Sweden wouldn't want to take because Latin, I can't see why any team wouldn't want to take because Latin with them, doesn't matter. He could be 65. That's the level of things he does. That's exactly it, the talisman. I mean, you know, look at what can happen. Look at what happened to Liverpool a few weeks ago in the Champions League final. How much it can, just having that presence. You felt the crowd and everything when of course Salah got injured. Just having him there sometimes gives the rest of the team and the players that belief that they could do something. They've got that magic man. And it takes the pressure off of the players because everyone looks at Slata to take the pressure then. You think Sweden, you think that, don't you? You think it should be his face there. He's not going, obviously they've got Linda Lough. He's won some what, he plays for Manchester United of course, he's done all right. Sebastian Larson is still going. Seb Larson's been going forever. Oh my gosh, I'm old as he now. He's playing for Hull now or something. In the World Cup. He's gone. They've got Fosberg who's a good player as well. And Emil Kraft is the one that they're all talking about. He's a belonging, he's a right fullback. A lot of, allegedly, a lot of the big European clubs looking at him quick right back. He's been in and out of belonging this year with injury but he's the one, apparently, that a lot of the big European clubs are looking at so he's one to look out for. But I think where Sweden will come up short is in the final third. Not having Ibrahim a bit, I think it makes a big difference. They always seem to have decent strikers but not ones who put the ball in the net regularly. Obviously Henry Larson was incredible in Ibrahim if it's for a while and they were a real, real threat but I just worry about their goals for them. Going forwards. But if they're up, it's a tough side to play against. They are, well, this is the thing isn't it with the World Cup. Anything kind of can happen and they're all decent teams. Obviously you've got your elite teams but then you just never know as you said, if Korea were to come to get results or Mexico to get results if any of them can get a result against Germany then it's kind of fair game isn't it? You'd look to Germany to definitely qualify but the other interesting thing about this World Cup is that because I spoke about this yesterday a little bit on the radio that there's no real group of death kind of thing so it means that I think going forward as the competition progresses you're going to get a lot of tasty games as the competition goes on and I'm looking forward to that seeing some of the real elite players come in there face-to-face and I'm excited, I'm really excited for the World Cup this year. It should be good yeah, interesting. There you go where me and Sarah are going for quite obviously Germany and Mexico to get out of the group but we'll probably be Sweden and Germany both of the kids as well their kids, there's no way they're not getting on. What about Nigeria's one though I like Peru I like Peru's away Let us know what you think in the comment section below Group F the World Cup are you looking forward to the World Cup is there a nice break from Everton or any of your clubs or you just can't wait for club football to come back I can't wait, I'll be honest just for the amount of games and the consumption of football over the next month it's not to worry about you can just sit down and enjoy it, it's great. Exactly feet up, Saturday we know what we're doing that's it, sorted four games not moving, it's all good well moving every hour for me 250 steps that's good cheers for watching, see you soon