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Thread: 2011-2012 English Football Season and STEWART DOWNING WHAT ON EARTH Thread

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    Latest news!

    Vilas-Boas the new Chelsea manager.

    Ashley Young to Man Utd for £15 million or so.

    Great Britain (or 10 English players plus Gareth Bale) football team to probably play at next year's Olympics. Er... maybe.

    Copa America starts in July, might watch that.
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    If this man is the closest thing to Mourinho we'll ever get, he has my complete support.

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    Thats 2 managers Sir Bobby Robson has created for Chelsea, he should of told them about Toon.

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    Hmmm. Ashley Young? Will be interesting, I'm reserving judgement. Not sure if he's what we really need or not. Desperate for us to sign one more CM. We have Giggs getting on in years, Scholes retired, Hargreaves out and apparently Gibson is looking at other clubs as well (good). So yeah, Anderson/Fletcher/Carrick/Giggs is nice and all, but we need a little more than that.
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    England ranked 4th in the world - got to love the FIFA rankings.
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    Ha, yeah. Let's face it, though, the only change that matters is that New Zealand is now ranked 97, somehow falling 37 places. This is insane. What the hell happened. Losing to Paraguay, Mexico and Australia, countries which were surely ranked well above us, shouldn't mean we drop that far!

    Hmph. We're still the only unbeaten team at the most recent World Cup!
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    You think that's bad for New Zealand, when it comes to qualifying for the next World Cup there's going to be a random draw to decide who the Oceania winners (i.e. New Zealand) will playoff against to reach the World Cup, and it could be a team from Asia, Concacaf or South America - would be pretty harsh on NZ if it winds up being the latter.
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    Uh oh. Oh well, it's a long time away yet.
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    I think they'd have it tough whomever they face, as CONCACAF have some decent teams, like Mexico and (whisper it)the Americans, and even Asia has the Japs and the Koreans, and who's forgetting the mighty Qatar!


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    To be fair, those teams will probably get through to the world cup anyway. We'd be facing the likes of Bahrain from Asia (going by the last time we had to qualify), but if it's one of the Americas it could be a team like Colombia or Honduras.
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    Quote Originally Posted by charliepanayi View Post
    England ranked 4th in the world - got to love the FIFA rankings.
    I know. Surely we should be FIRST. This is an insult to ROONEY, TERRY, JEFF HURST and all TRUE LIONS. Also I now work for The Sun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by charliepanayi View Post
    England ranked 4th in the world - got to love the FIFA rankings.
    I know. Surely we should be FIRST. This is an insult to ROONEY, TERRY, JEFF HURST and all TRUE LIONS. Also I now work for The Sun.
    A Liverpool supporter working for The Sun? *universe explodes*
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    No of course not you big silly. Also, I hope you keep Fabregas!

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    England were too high as it was before they ended up where they are now, but the whole ranking system FIFA has is pants on head stupid (much like everything they do topical joke hurr). Brazil are 5th, non-WC qualifying Croatia is 8th, and according to FIFA, the 15th best international side in the world is...Montenegro. Burkina Faso, where they no doubt practice football with severed heads, trump Cameroon by 11 places at 37th.


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    It's because it's all based on recent results, and you get more ranking points for beating European or South American teams etc, and presumably it's skewed towards competitive games too. Montenegro are unbeaten in eight games (of which six were wins), which may explain their meteoric rise. Burkina Faso are above Cameroon as they've won all their ACN qualifying games, whereas Cameroon have won one out of four and are now unlikely to qualify.

    Basically, s**t makes no sense in the great scheme of things, it's just cribbed off the most recent bunch of games.
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