World Cup 2014
With the World Cup Qualifying starting today this is a thread to discuss all things in regards to the World Cup qualification campaign.
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England team to face Moldova: Hart, Johnson, Baines, Gerrard, Lescott, Terry, Milner, Lampard, Defoe, Cleverley, Oxlade Chamberlain.
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Hart Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Baines, Gerrard, Lampard, Cleverley, Oxlade Chamberlain, Defoe, Milner |
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England's 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign opened in emphatic fashion as Moldova were outclassed 5-0 in Chisinau.
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Moldova, San Marino and other small nations shouldn't be in the world cup, instead they should have their own small nations cup or similar where they play against places like Fiji, Samoa and anywhere else with a sub-5million population.
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Have they ever got through to the finals in the last world/euro cups It must be demoralising for them to end up 5-0 or more against a team with the media describing them as whipping boys of the group..
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Maybe it spurs us on more? Allows our players to have experience against top international sides? Nobody forces us to enter tournaments.
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Yet every tournament they enter they are end up bottom (or near bottom)
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Friendlies aren't guaranteed though. And teams rarely play their best and strongest squad in a friendly. Elitism is rife in certain footballing countries but that doesn't make it right.
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Well seeing as none of these 'lost' countries have gotten together to make such a suggestion, perhaps it should be left up to them to decide if that's what they want.
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If it is an issue for them, and that's an if then it should be those teams who ask for it.
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Losing against a bigger nation doesn't increase their rankings, playing against the lower teams give them a better chance to win and increase rankings, get to a certain point and more competitions are open to them with higher ranked teams.. It's the same with our leagues you start off at the bottom with teams equal to yourself and work your way up as Rangers is just finding out.. [joke]...perhaps it would be a good place for Wales to start ;) [/joke] Perhaps another approach might be to lose the area restrictions on qualifying instead which could see lower EU teams playing against more equal teams? Just that San Marino ends up in a group with some of the EU's top teams where Fiji/Somoa in the oceanic group have a lot fairer chance as they're playing against local islands.. Just that it's a one sides competition on one side of the planet and totally different on the other.. ---------- Post added at 10:44 ---------- Previous post was at 10:43 ---------- Quote:
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Wales is what I'm talking about. We went up the rankings during Gary Speed's era and were going in the right direction. Nothing wrong with the systems as it is and if it did need fixing then I'm sure the 'lesser nations' would be the first to speak out.
England for example have only made it to the semis once in 80-odd years whereas other nations get there more regularly. I'm sure if an 'elite' competition was proposed where team that got there more than once were the only one able to qualify you'd have something to say against that. If it isn't broken (or even acknowledged as broken by those it affects) then it does not need fixing. ---------- Post added at 10:50 ---------- Previous post was at 10:49 ---------- Quote:
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It wasn't a theory and "wondering" isn't exactly conjecture just a few simple basic viewpoints based on the fact that Moldova and San Marino every four years are constantly put down in the media and basically have minimal chance from the very start of the contest..
The current seeding system doesn't seem to work so how about byes for the top teams and allow the smaller teams to progress.. PS.. Wales being in the top 50 ranking isn't exactly in the same league as Moldova who's 141 having dropped 4 places after playing England |
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Where's the incentive for lesser teams in a 'tinpot' (for that's how it would be viewed) tournament?
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Yep it probably would but at least they can have a decent chance at winning something..
As for incentive even winning against lower teams can raise your rankings, raise them enough and you have a cross-over point as where they could enter a higher competition.. I never said it was a perfect idea or even workable but I'm sure that some modern day competitions were viewed that way when it first started and possible had similar roots ;) Watching the match I just felt sorry for the Moldovan team and was shocked at some of the media comments |
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Well if you're going to win it (albeit with an illegal goal but that's by-the-by) then obviously you would get to the semi-final too. But more teams make it past there more often - that should be an ideal measure of an 'elite' tournament if there was one.
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England team to face Ukraine: Hart, G Johnson, Jagielka, Lescott, Baines, Milner, Gerrard, Lampard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cleverley, Defoe.
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Jagielka in for Terry otherwise same vs. Moldova
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Oh dear.:(
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Was going to have a punt on Ukraine/England HT/FT at 16/1.
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Could be worse, you could have Chris Coleman as a manager.
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I think his ambition was to undo as much of Gary Speed's good work as possible. My biggest worry is that he may feel he hasn't quite completed the task yet.
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My worry is simply that l don't think Chris Coleman is the right man for the job but then again what do l know.
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the ref was a joke
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Trinidad and Tobago - smallest country to qualify for the World Cup finals. Sure they didn't score a single goal but if you had offered them the chance to play in the World Cup finals or play in a tournament with smaller teams do you really think they would have chosen the latter? |
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England starting XI vs San Marino: Hart, Walker, Baines, Carrick, Jagielka, Cahill, Walcott, Cleverley, Welbeck, Rooney (C), Oxlade-Chamberlain
Subs: Cole, Ruddy, Lescott, Shawcross, Milner, Shelvey, A Johnson, Lennon, Carroll, Defoe, Forster attacking line up :tu: |
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What a shocking challenge by the San Marino goalkeeper and he does not even get a booking.:td::(
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clear peno. 1 nil. the goals should come now
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watching the Scotland game here
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Defoe would suit this game.
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I'd take Welbeck off
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great dive by bale for penalty
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England 4-0 up now with Rooney and Welbeck both scoring a brace.
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What a scoreline this is Rep of Ireland 1-6 Germany :shocked:
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Bale 2 Scotland 1
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I am glad the Ox finally got his goal, Shame I was thinking Scotland would knick it.
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England make six changes from the 5-0 win over San Marino. Right-back Glen Johnson, centre-back Joleon Lescott and left-back Ashley Cole return to the defence.
Captain Steven Gerrard, back from suspension, and James Milner start in midfield, while striker Jermain Defoe is restored to the attack. Kyle Walker, Gary Cahill, Leighton Baines, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Danny Welbeck make way. |
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Watched end of under 21s..shocking ending
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Well at the moment one wonders whether we will be having a match tonight as there are shambolic goings on out in Warsaw.:(:td:
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total incompetence. havent they got weather reports in Poland? and sprinklers?
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Might be played tomorrow. Shame for england fans that travelled
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It is utterly shambolic incompetence by FIFA and the Polish FA.
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I think they should start the match between the subs.
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can't see anyway this match being played tonight or for a matter a fact Tomorrow
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Get them on that pitch. Do you think rain would have stopped play 50 years ago? This isn't cricket
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Now i remember thay i don't watch football on ITV :(
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Don't worry if they can shut the roof they'll dry the pitch in 30 mins., well according to the Polish press officer...
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is that thanks to the 'heating system' :D
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Match posponed until tomorrow, fire the man who decided against shutting the roof.
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belguim 1 scotland 0 belguim 2 scotland 0 thanks super fletch taken off and can get some rest for weekends game for us |
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Well the sun's out in Warsaw now so they've been able to shut the roof... :rofl:
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England poor here at the moment.:(
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England would do a whole lot better if they stopped just giving the ball away...
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England are shocking and more proof that fifa's ranking are a shambles
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Joe Hart, best goalkeeper in the world....LOL!
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lots of changes for this friendly
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Of all the teams that goal could have been scored against, I'm so glad it was England and not Wales :D
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