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This site is quality for all things WC.  And this article is a great example of how interesting the WC can be.  I am a World Cup geek by the way, so this might not appeal to all.

www.planetworldcup.com/GUESTS/andre20050213.html

thats unusual jan! you being a world cup geek when scotland dont usually feature?

I think you'll find that before the last world cup, Scotland qualified for more World Cups than England Richard.

blimey Jan! you really are a world cup geek........

Yes Rich, how could you forget the 1-0 defeat to Costa Rica, the 3-1 defeat to Peru, the 1-1 draw with Iran........

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You know you can go off people OST!!!   :wink:

It had to be said!

But you fail to mention our victory over the dutch in 78, Narey's goal against Brazil in 82, our 0-0 bore draw against Uruguay, 2-1 defeat of the Swedes.........ummmmmm....

We're on the march with Ally's Army we're all going to the Argentine......

  Did you know that Village People did the 94 German World Cup  tune?

  You can find it in this tasteful collection on Series 2 of EuroTrash

  http://www.planetrapido.com/shows/shw.69.php

yeah then there was dont come home too soon in 98 with colin hendry in the video. what happened that year jan?

Hmmmm...don't remember any of those I'm afraid!

Oooh! oooh! oooh!  I've got another, the 2-2 draw against Russia (86 was it? or 90?) When those two clowns collided on the half way line and the Russian strolled through to score.  Funny as f***!

The 98 song was class, still listen to that now.  Rich I forgot England won the World Cup that year or did they go all the way to the 2nd round, well done.

1 round further than scotland i think?  :D

86 - Denmark 1-0, West Germany 2-1, Uruguay 0-0.
90 Costa Rice 0-1, Sweden 2-1, Brazil 0-1?

92 Euro92 - Germany, Russia, Holland.  We beat Russia 3-0 though.

Do you wear a "See You Jimmy" hat?

"1 round further than Scotland I think" Rich

Well done Rich.  Extremely impressive seeing as though that was the tournament you were gonna win, after the highly impressive Le Tournoi.  For a country of nearly 10 times as many people getting one round further is a great achievement.

i thought it was actually but the ref was a prick that game!  i hate that ref!  :evil:

Ha ha, quality.  You'd never believe an Englishman blaming the ref for their failures on a footie pitch.  Where have I heard that before? Apart from in 86, 94 (linesman, linesman!!), 98, 2002, 2004.  Rich England just weren't good enough.

So would you trade those for having a decent official in 66 and 96.  Hirst's "goal" and the dodgy linesman who disallowed Spain's perfectly good goal (golden goal?) in the quarter finals?

Yes, blaming the ref is something only the english do.

its tradition

Not really, we just do it more than most.

We love a good excuse!

I didn't say that PM, but that's all you ever hear after, what seems like every major tournament.  It's fecking boring!!  It's not so much the fans fault, it's the media really.

The basic England - Scotland thing can be summed up as follows:

Scotland - used to qualify well, then embarrass themselves by losing to the likes of costa rica etc. They've had some useful results along the way too- notably the result agaist the dutch. Scotland is a small nation though, thier fans accept that and dont really expect too much.

They really are shit now though

England - often flatter to decieve. have been amongst the group of the favoites (top 6) on several occasions but fuck it it somehow, be it by bad luck, bad refereeing or bad penalties normally.

As a major footballing nation we really should be doing better. Frankly the media dosnt help - shite one minute - certain champions the next

On paper we have one of the strongest squads that will be in Germany next year, but I cant help but think that we'll fuck it up in some way or another.

The voice of reason - Spot on I would say!

On the whole I'd agree with PM's points.  Apart from blaming bad luck.  I mean if you look at Scotland you could say luck has had a huge effect on Scotland's WC performances, however when it comes down to it, we just weren't good enough.  And that's the same as England, but at a different stage of the competition.

With regards to Costa Rica, this really wasn't that much of a shock.  The victory over Scotland was the start of a good campaign by the Costa Ricans.  They also beat a fancied Sweden 2-1 to qualify for the next round.

Heh! heh!

Costa Rica :mrgreen:

Here is a simple way of proving that England are better than Scotland.

How many England players can jan name?
And how many Scotland players can rich or OST name?

End of argument?

Jan, if your a betting man, you can get 10000-1 on scotland winning the world cup, might be worth a gamble??  :D

http://sports.bestbetting.com/football/world-cup/winner

costa rica are hardly walkovers, have seen them burn mexico in the azteca before, just because they are from a less favoured part of the world dont mean they are shit.

oh and by the way dont think im sticking up for that scottish cunt 8)

I've always liked you Mex. :wink: