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.Originally Posted by Jings
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.
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