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After that wee German fud fucked up my countries football team and took us to 88th in the world, King Walter Smith of Scotland has got us back up to 34th in the world :beers:
Wont be long before we are back qualifying for major finals. Just need to sort the coefficent out so we dont get lumbered with World cup winners, runners up and quarter finalists in the same group! :evil:

Hurrah  :-))(

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Aparantly England are the 4th best team in the world according to the Fifa rankings, 1 place above Italy.

Says it all really

just coz you take qualifying for granted Spud.  :old:

yes it does when italy can only draw with lithuania and lose to croatia and france....hardly world beaters performances are they.

and if you want to look at a revival look at northern ireland  :beers:

Ok I take it back. Fifa rankings are nonsense! :mrgreen:

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Lets all laugh at Wales :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Wait till Scotland play a good side and lose  :soapy tit wank:

At last we agree on something.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

We havent lost to Northern Ireland in ages though :mrgreen:  :soapy tit wank:

nor have you played them in ages  :soapy tit wank:

 :boring:

We still qualified though.  :beers:

you haven't played in a major tournament for ages though  :soapy tit wank:

WE fancied a break, and thought we'd let you catch up in the number of world cups qualified for :mrgreen:

I love the way you (SWINDON TOWN) England fans take the piss out of Scotland, you all sound like Chelsea/Man Utd glory hunters.

I'm just glad Walter's working his magic, and making us competitive again, if we can keep up the good work, with France, Ukraine and Italy all taking points off each other who knows what could happen!

i dont mind scotland doing well at the moment, because everyone knows how shit you are and your five points clear of italy at the moment....who i hate. this allows me to piss take to all the fake italians.

Back to the rankings, I realise Italy have had a poor start to qualifying but how can the World Champions be ranked 5th, whilst quarter finalist Argies are third?

I know it's done on other results, but surely the world cup results should heavily weight the order?

i understand what your saying and yes they won the world cup but there record in the world cup and since comes up as

played 10, won 6, drawn 2 lost 2....its not a bad record but its not world beating records is it. this is the same team which needed a dogey pen to beat some aussies and couldnt defeat 9 yanks, there not really that good just because they won the world cup.

Surely world rankings should be based on current performance though?!
In Italy's case they should have been right up near the top after the World Cup but then should have dropped a few places because of recent results.

England would be somewhere around 10th because we haven't beaten anybody good for a while.

Or am I the only one that thinks like this?

Due to the different abilities of the footballing regions, there only being a world cup every 4 years and the range of experimentation in friendlies; it's almost impossible to have a ranking system which means anything.

If you just go by win's then teams like Australia (and to an extent USA or Mexico) are gonna have an advantage becuse they are strong teams in relatively weak regions, however if you just go by who you beat then they will rarely play teams of a good enough standard to represent the strength of their own team.

With a lack of competative (non-friendly) international matches which span fifa's regions it's almost impossible to form a meaningful ranking system.

The thing with the rankings is they can only really be used as an indicator and dont really mean anything in the long run, they dont affect qualifying seedings, Its only really a money making thing (the coca cola world rankings).

As for your comment Reeves... Im suprised england are so high, think they would struggle against most of the teams in the top 10.

I like Scotland's oh so scottish midfield dynamo, Nigel 'its up north son, beyond newcastle' Quashie.

Bit like "England Legend" Kevin Pieterson, or Allan Lamb, Owen Hargreaves, Mike Catt.

Or half the welsh rugby team or Irish football team from the 90's and 80's.

It happens.

He isnt even close to being out midfield dynamo, that would be fletcher, ferguson or heartley. Any way, he is just as good as Owen "I speak Canadian with a german accent" Hargreaves. Or John "Im really jamaican" Barnes. Or Michael "born in Wales with a really really welsh name" Owen :mrgreen:

I think I lost this one!  A rare Scottish victory, well done lads.  Enjoy it.

Did you say Quashie is "as good" as Hargreaves, Owen and Barnes????

All three of those are World class players and chose to play for England - Quashie plays for Scotland because the SFA rang him up and he had nothing else to do for a weekend [ :soapy tit wank: ]

I meant to say It, not he, as in its no worse than the aforementioned foreigners. As I said before, he is far from being our midfield dynamo. Infact he shouldnt even be playing for Scotland.

Quite some effort that, I'd imagine

Does anyone know where you can find out who are currently the 'unofficial' World Champions?  Remembering reading about it in Zoo ages ago - its basically where since the very first international, back in yonder year, the winner became World Champion and the only way you could claim that title was to beat the current 'World Champion'!!

I believe Scotland have held the title for the longest, but some crap team like Antigua held it last time I read about it!!  :shock:  Does anyone even know what I'm talking about??!  :-))(

In fact, I've just found the website for anyone interested:

http://www.ufwc.co.uk/

Uruguay currently hold the mantle of Unofficial World Champions!

Yes I do know what you are on about DerbyRed. Think Scotland are due a game against Uruguay :mrgreen:

was michael owen not born in chester? which happens to be in england last time i checked.

also does that include friendlies in that unofficial world champions thing?

Yes it does!  Suppose it would make a friendly slightly more exciting if you knew winning it would make you Unofficial World Champions!  8)

i wonder who it is disregarding friendlies, only major tournaments, world and confedneration qualifiers counting.

I've never seen that site before, class piece of work!!

Venezuela v Uruguay next Unofficial World Championship Title Match, in less than a week, how come Sky haven't been promoting this???   :wink:

I got into an argument with someone about Micheal Owen being Welsh. As far as I know it's like the opposite of Ryan Giggs.

Pretty much the case. Still, his name couldnt get much more welsh either! Proved by the fact that his name sake plays egg chasing for Wales :soapy tit wank:

Never been a fan of Scotland picking players who didnt think of Scotland as their first choice. Matt elliott being the biggest cunt of the lot. Still, could be worse.... could be Ireland! :soapy tit wank:

Isnt Ireland simply England 'B'?

F.A.I, Find another Irishman i believe.

clinton morison, i iz irish ya get me blud.

best one was Tony "Actually I dont even have an Irish grandparent but played about 100 games" Cascarino :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

yes the cockney italian with an adopted irish grand parent  :?

I fucking hate the the fact that that fucker ever pulled on a Scotland shirt.  Disgrace to the nation that was.