My personal definition of Group of Death (which is as good as anyone else’s, seeing as it’s not exactly written in stone) is that three of the four teams must be good and of a similar level, and probably two of the teams must be traditional big names. Competitiveness is a lessor factor, as clearly Group G is no Group of Death, despite France doing their best to give everyone a chance.
So Groups C and E both contender for G.O.D. status, but if there was to be only one I’d pick C because the two good teams are more ‘very good’ than Group E’s top teams. Plus the Ivory Coast look better than Ghana. It’s just that, even though the Ivory Coast are a good side, results have gone to the traditional big guns anyway and Group E has been left as the more competitive group.
I always thought any of the Group E teams had a chance of getting through. I never gave Serbia & Montenegro a snowball in Hell’s chance of escaping Group C, which gives it more ‘deathiness’ in my opinion :o)
Ghana looked great Saturday against Czech
The only real Group of Death is the one with Argentina, Holland, Ivory Coast and Serbia. Despite their thrashing the other day, Serbia aren't a bad side. Holland and Argies are among the favourites to win the whole competition, let alone the group.