2015 Africa Cup of Nations

[Lineker]

GROUP A

Equatorial Guinea (hosts)

Burkina Faso

Gabon

Congo

GROUP B

Zambia

Tunisia

Cape Verde

DR Congo

GROUP C

Ghana

Algeria

South Africa

Senegal

GROUP D

Ivory Coast

Mali

Cameroon

Guinea

Eurosport are the UK broadcasters for the tournament, starting with the new hosts Equatorial Guinea taking on Congo in Bata on Saturday.

Are we officially backing Zambia again, then?

[Benji]

I always have a soft spot for Senegal.

[MDK]

Group D has the same flags. If you're colour blind.

[Benji]

Nu-uh, Cameroon has a little star.

[MDK]

Because they were good in school

[stokeriño]

I'm backing Cote d'Ivoire as far as the quarter finals, as that will apparently rule out Yaya (and Bony too I guess) for the Chelsea/City game.

Otherwise, I dunno,

[Gazz]

Cape Verde all the way

[Thrilla]

Lets go Doctor Congo!

[Benji]

I wonder if Um Bongo is recommended by Doctor Congo.

[Colly]

I want Algeria to go out rapidly so we can stop pretending Abeid is injured.

I'm going for Doctor Congo too.

[stokeriño]

I would support Doctor Congo, if the DR Congo weren't actually one of the shittiest countries on earth.

I think I shall be splitting my support between Cape Verde and South Africa.

[Plubby]

Go Algeria! Keep Bentaleb out of commission!

[Lineker]

Posting on EWB has conditioned me to hate anything sounding like Kongo. So fuck both of these Congo's!

[DFF]

Where's our thread for the AFC Asian Cup? It's halfway through the group stage already!

On topic: Go Cape Verde!

[Lineker]

Where's our thread for the AFC Asian Cup? It's halfway through the group stage already!

I was on holiday! I said that somebody else should make it!

I can make it if you'd like :/

[Benji]

Bloody Lineker, too busy on mobility scooters to acknowledge our Asian brethren.

[DFF]

Where's our thread for the AFC Asian Cup? It's halfway through the group stage already!

I was on holiday! I said that somebody else should make it!

I can make it if you'd like :/

[FestiveJack]

I like that Zambia has both zero foreign born players in their squad and a decent number of players playing in their home nation (10). The only other nation with both these two traits in their squad is South Africa, who actually have 18 domestic-based players in their squad.

[Matt]

Lets go Doctor Congo!

I'm going for Congo, forever in the shadow of their bigger brother who got to go to med school

[9 to 5]

I always have a soft spot for Senegal.

I remember, christ, 11 years ago now someone on here (one of our Arsenal lot) asking why Senegal didn't manange to qualify for Euro 2004.