World Cup draw tomorrow

[Psychotic]

I think he's Sven's love-child.

[Old Manus]

Makes sense

[Russielloyd]

The squad i think will go...

GK
1). Robinson
2). James
3). Kirkland

DF
4). Terry
5). Carragher
6). Ferdinhand
7). Campbell
8). A. Cole
9). G. Neville
10). Young
11). Bridge

MF
12). Lampard
13). Gerrard
14). Beckham
15). J. Cole
16). Carrick
17). Wright-Phillips
18). Hargreaves
19). King

FW
20). Owen
21). Rooney
22). Defoe
23). Crouch

[Strider]

United States, Italy, Ghana, Czech Republic. Yikes.

[Doomie]

Germany + Poland
England + Sweden
Argentina + Netherlands
Mexico + Portugal
Italia + Czech Republic
Brazil + Croatia
France + Switzerland
Spain + Ukraine

Germany beats Sweden.
England beats Poland in shoot-outs.
Argentina beats Portugal in a Golden Goal.
Netherlands will beat Mexico.
Italy will beat Croatia.
Brazil will beat the Czechs by a goal.
Ukraine will beat France.
Spain will beat Switzerland.

England beats Germany.
Netherlands beats Poland.
Brazil beats Italy.
Ukraine beats Spain.

Netherlands beats England.
Brazil beats Ukraine.

Brazil wins the cup.

[eestlinc]

It depends on which teams you play. Teams like Mexico and the USA are extremely high because they have to play the likes of Guadeloupe and Hondouras.

perhaps you mean Guatemala?

Go US, I guess.

[Psychotic]

Guatemala are a good side by non-Mexico/USA standards for North America. So they'd get hammered by a real team.

Guadeloupe have Pascal Chimbonda of Wigan Athletic and so clearly exist. Chimbonda has to be from somewhere!

[eestlinc]

Guadeloupe is a set of carribean islands. do they really have a national team? aren't they part of France anyway?

[Psychotic]

I looked it up and apparently they don't. But on the plus side, the Turks and Caicos Islands have a national team!

LINK: http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statisti...v-2005,00.html

I wouldn't trust their ratings too much, for reasons described above.

[eestlinc]

I was going to mock Guadeloupe by comparing them to San Marino, except San Marino apparently have a team!

Those rankings must be meaningless if the US is ranked above England.

[Psychotic]

San Marino have never won a game. I remember when we beat them 7-1 back in 1993. Oh precious memories.

They were awesome on Sensible Soccer on the Genesis/Mega-Drive though.

[Raistlin]

I think it takes schedule into account more than actual skill.

EDIT: those rankings, I mean.

[Russielloyd]

The rankings are based on previous results in the last 8 years and how that team has faired in the previous WC and their own continental tournament.

[Psychotic]

This page explains how they're calculated. I trust the World Cup seedings a lot more, to be honest, not least because England were calculated as being second.

[Russielloyd]

So what i said sums it up in a very tiny small nutshell.