http:www.yahoo.co.uk wc98

If you are a teacher or a parent, or both, and are getting last-minute doubts about being the one person in the classroom who cannot chant the names of the England football squad, then this site can help.

It’s a crammer, a sort of Coles Notes of France 98. It gives you hard facts, quickly: the teams, the players, their form, the groupings and fixtures ( and, eventually, the results) as well as news and gossip.

Once the World Cup gets under way, and the many fancier Web sites are clogged up, this could be the one that delivers.

Bill Hicks