I have been reading the forum for a while now and after seeing this thread I finally decided to post. So far I think that the first few games have been played with few surprises. Portugal and Germany should make it through without much of a challange and I also think Spain will make it out of their group easily. It will be interesting to see who gets the second spot in those three groups. I don't know why, but I have a feeling that Italy and the Netherlands will survive and make it out of "the group of death" but with three great teams in there, anything can happen. As a big fan of English soccer I feel like the tournament is missing something without England in it. I didn't expect them to win, but it still would have been fun to watch them play. Right now I think that Portugal will win, the made it to the finals last time and with Ronaldo playing like he is, it will be very hard to stop them. As far as supporting club teams, as my picture shows I am a huge Manchester United fan. I don't think its wrong to support any of the "big four" teams as long has you actually care about the team and pay attention to what is going on.