Yeah, it is being re-released, but the '98 version, so there are mentions of Gazza and Paul Ince, and Theo Walcott was only 9 at the time
Argentina
Brazil
Czech Republic
England
France
Germany
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
USA
Some team that isn't mentioned here, such as Ukraine.
Yeah, it is being re-released, but the '98 version, so there are mentions of Gazza and Paul Ince, and Theo Walcott was only 9 at the time
You know whats funny?
There's a MASSIVE thing going on here about how we made the cup (Australia).
Now I don't know anything about soccer except that brazil are good. But... can't help not to support the home team...
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!! OI OI OI!!!!! RAAAAAGH!!!!
Go Australia.
Too bad Australia have got Brazil in the group stages thenOriginally Posted by Malboro_Menace
Germany 3 Columbia 0
and dont you dare say anything
Here is the 'World Football Elo Ratings' which are often considered superior to the Fifa Ranking System
Rank / Team / Points
1 Brazil 2007
2 Netherlands 1964
3 France 1942
4 England 1939 -------- Thats 6 ranks up!
5 Czech Republic 1937
6 Spain 1924
7 Italy 1918
8 Argentina 1899
9 Portugal 1887
10 Denmark 1866
11 Germany 1864 -------- Thats 8 ranks up!
12 Sweden 1838
13 Croatia 1824
14 Uruguay 1819
15 Mexico 1818
16 Romania 1816
17 Iran 1814
18 United States 1812 -------- And most importantly this is 13 ranks down!
19 Republic of Ireland 1794
19 Turkey 1794
If you want to know how the system works. Head here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_foo...s_of_June_2006
Last edited by Croyles; 06-03-2006 at 09:56 PM.
Without trying to sound mean-spirited, that's because we qualified for the World Cup and Scotland didn't. In previous tournaments, when the Scots and Irish were present, those countries were given plenty (although admittedly not an equal amount) of coverage, but the fact is that at the moment the focus of British football is the team that's going to be in the tournament. The reason that sort of thing doesn't happen in Canada is that Canada and the US don't share their major broadcasting corporations like England and Scotland do. The BBC can hardly stop following football just because not every country in the UK qualifies, after all.
I don't mean to say that you should support England all the way; I don't see why the Scots should be obliged to do that. I just wanted to point some stuff out, that's all.
See, those are much better rankings, although there are still one or two odd positions (particularly Iran's placing). More weighting seems to have been placed on the relative strength of competition, and so teams like the USA are more realistically placed. This is definitely a better indicator of teams' ability than the official system.
Now, with regards to today's friendly, I have to say how absolutely chuffed I am that England managed to integrate Crouch into their scheme so well. This bodes extremely well for the World Cup, not only because we'll need him in the group stage, but also because it provides us with an effective plan B in the later stages of the competition if our normal set-up doesn't work. However, I am almost certain that if Peter Crouch wins us the tournament, and that stupid smurfing robot dance is repeated endlessly for the next fifty years, I will emigrate. Hopefully it won't come to that, and he'll have the good sense to do the awesome-scoring thing without doing the stupid-dancing thing as well. Go on Peter, we believe in you!
P.S. Oh, and no way was that Gerrard equaliser Goal of the Season.
"The most important and recognize player in the history of the country."
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I were as great as Paulo Wanchope.
Pft, that goal was awesome, and given the context of the goal in the match it was just amazing.
The last goal Crouch scored he didnt do the robot dance, so im guessing even he knows that the novelty will wear off. He'll have to come up with some other moves ^^
Crouchaldinho is god. He always scores in bursts, and I hope that burst doesn't run out before the WC is over.
And my god what the hell has happened to Sol Campbell? He played terribly. If he's awful against Jamaica of all teams, I shudder to think what he'll be like against a good team. Please don't get injured or suspended, Terry and Rio. For some reason Sven seems to think of Campbell as our third choice centre back, above Carragher.
Other than the goal and a couple of flick ons, Lampard was anonymous. I thought Gerrard played great, doing all the standard cleaning up work as a holding player, as well as getting forward.
Did anyone see the England match? Awesome, Peter Crouch is the greatest cult player in the World Cup. A cross between a man and a ladder, brilliant idea. Who do u ppl think will win the World Cup? I'm gonna go for England but I reckon Argentina and Holland are due a good tournament. You can NEVER count out the Germans either, they always seem to pop up with the goods in the big matches.
I think England have a good chance, but it'll probably end up being Brazil, Italy or France winning.
I don't any reason why we can't win. All we need is a bit of luck.
The luck is that Rooney is making an amazing recovery from his metatarsal injury and looks like he will deffinately feature, which will boost the whole teams morale.
Netherlands 1 - 1 Australia
http://www.healrooney.com/
I thought you guys would enjoy this.
That is awesome.
there was a picture here
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