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Robson claims England can win World Cup

Thursday, 9 June, 2005

England has good chances of winning next years World Cup in Germany according to Sir Bobby Robson.

In his interview given to BBC Sport he said: "We have a fine team and we weren't very far away in Portugal in 2004. I think we will be hard to beat and have every chance.

In Rooney we have an artist. I think that boy is sensational."

England lost reached the quarter-final of the European Championship last year and lost it to Portugal on a penalty shoot-out .

The last time a team from outside Europe won a World Cup held on the continent was in 1958 when Brazil was a world champion.