Cough....'come on you Republic of Ireland...'Well done Sweden, strong Scandinavian presence in Russia.
Italy 0-0 Sweden f/t
Italy do not make a WC for the first time since the 1950's
Not many goals in these play-offs
The year Sweden, the hosts, lost to Brazil in the final - probably the last times Wales reached the finals.According to Sky DB, it was 1958
What odds on Zlatan coming out of International retirement.


Probably wouldn't score though.
Cough....'come on you Republic of Ireland...'
I quite like Denmark.. Top totty on the beaches around Copenhagen and the Carlsberg aint a bad brew.Fantastic stuff. I imagine BCC is crying in a corner somewhere.
Just need the Republic to pull it off now (though I don' mind Denmark).
No place like Holm?
Oddschanger@Oddschanger
Is this worth a bet...?!
3/1 on Zlatan coming out of retirement and making Sweden's World Cup squad!
A baffled Janne Andersson dismissed talk of former captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic coming out of retirement to re-join Sweden after the country qualified for the 2018 World Cup at the expense of Italy.
"This is incredible! This player [Ibrahimovic] has just stopped to play with Sweden one year and a half ago and we are still here talking about him," Andersson told reporters post-match.
"Gosh, we need to talk about the great players we have in this team I believe."
On the match itself at San Siro, Andersson added: "What I wanted to say was that this was the demonstration that our collective acted like this during the whole length of the play-offs.
"We have many heroes tonight. I am a bit moved but obviously very happy with the result."
"When Ibrahimovic was here with us we played a different style of football," he continued. "Considering that he has decided to leave international football, he is a great champion, but we had to adapt and found another style."
That said he'd be hard to say no to...

Out of interest Stockholm, are you Swedish? I always just assumed you were from Hull but living out there.
I'm from Hull originally PLT. The posh part of Hawthorne Avenue.
I'm still first and foremost an England fan in international football but I've been here so long now I've found myself saying we as offer as they when talking about Sweden (often in the same sentence).
Beside a WC is always more fun when the local team's involved.