A year out, how are the World Cup contenders shaping up?

Who do we think can go all the way?

Yes, it’s far too early. Yes, a hell of a lot of football still needs to be played.

But we have ourselves the ten automatic qualifiers from Europe. Some good sides in the playoffs might still do something, but the difficulty of getting through there means we can’t really include Italy among the favourites to win the whole thing right now. As of November …