greece and ital out, diving stats might drop bahahahaha
Comment today from a once every four years football expert.
"I'm so glad the cheating Italians are out, I'll never forget Totti's dive in Germany"
I absolutely gave it to him.
"First it wasn't Totti it was Grosso, Secondly it wasn't a dive and please never talk to me again about football. I ****ing can't stand four year experts like you" I said.
He was so stunned, left him speechless.
No Italians or Dutch but yeah sure let’s save a spot for Honduras or New Zealand Bhahahahahaha praise be at Allah life is fantastic.
Just another reason why the rankings are ****ed
****s like Switzerland have stacked their fixtures with no friendlies and got an artificially high ranking
As a result they get seeded in the draws for Qualifying
As a result they don't have to face much of note
Italy haven't been doing so and get drawn with Spain in the same group
Wonder how long it will be before this anomaly gets rectified
My doodle is small...pee pee
Last edited by hawk; 20-12-2017 at 10:37 PM.
I explained the whole world cup qualification process to a colleague today. They suggested the WC wouldn't be much good without Italy and why wouldn't the top 20 teams get automatic qualification.
It ended up me explaining the breakdown of the confederations and how at hte end of the day, if teams don't make it they simply aren't good enough. I also covered that the world ranking system was flawed, hence why the "Top 20" suggestion wouldn't work.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
FFS Wales were ranked 13th in the World and they not even good enough to get in the top 2 of a group that contained Republic of Ireland and Serbia
Absolute farce they are if they able to get so high by having 1 decent tournament and not playing friendlies much
oh and happy days in Switzerland, will be able to order pizza for dinner during the World Cup.......
Amigos Aarau
I don’t know that you can really say any team is hard done by for not qualifying.
There’s 10 odd games in most cases and results are over 2 years or thereabouts. There are second chances afforded to most teams that remain competitive and deserving.
97 we didn't lose a game and got knocked out
So we were unlucky that time
This time though we have 3 opportunity to qualify
Beat Japan -Lost 2-0
Beat Thailand by lots - could only manage 2-1 and as a result Saudis squeaked past
Beat Honduras tomorrow night
We will have had ample opportunity to qualify and despite our record on paper being more than adequate historically if we don't qualify tomorrow night then ....
We don't deserve to regardless of what bullshit ****s us over as we weren't good enough
Yoorope needs to be split in 2 groups and go a Sth American style mega home and away roundabout.
top six each group go through, playoff the other spot between 7th in each group.
wheat from chaff etc etc etc