ITV's head of sport, Niall Sloane, said he was satisfied with its picks: "We have two England games, two Brazil games and two Argentina games in that first phase".
England have not finished ahead since 1986, when the Games were last held in Scotland and 32 teams did not turn up because they were staging a boycott.
Wood will join the England squad today, although he is unlikely to be in contention for England's game in Paris next Sunday.
"We have a cold season in Sierra Leone but it is not cold like England.
Further Scottish devolution and measures that will give English MPs more say over laws that only affect England.
While some may say the changes in England have so far only been at the margins, it is the risk of a slippery slope that should cause concern.
The way I figure it, the one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, 'I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.' So this prankster set up poor impressionable Reid and won his bet.
What got me onto this theory was reading that the shoe bomber, a Muslim convert named Richard Reid, had been described by someone who knew him well in England as 'very, very impressionable.' I had already decided that the man was a complete bozo.
What must have really stung was that the top-placed European whisky was the Chapter 14 Not Peated, which is from England! You'd be a brave man to order that at the Highlander.
Derided as a buffoonish figure of fun for attempting to keep dry while his England team failed to qualify for Euro 2008, McClaren is currently attracting far less media attention for steering Derby County to fourth from 14th in the Championship after a run of just two defeats in 15 matches since he replaced Nigel Clough in September.
"We have spoken about it, he is a massive England fan and, if needed, would drop everything at the drop of a hat to come and join us.
