Good idea..How about every pub in the country can enter a team...Cost say £250 each....Followed by Lottery style draw. Winning pub is able to put out an XI for 45 minutes with all the money going to a bone-fide charity chosen by the pub beforehand.
As far as “smaller” nations go, Andorra aren’t the pushovers they once were, owing mostly to the fact that the team FC Andorra (owned by Gerard Pique) has surged up the Spanish league system and into the second tier. Ironically, none of the current Andorra squad play for them and FC Andorra’s Andorran contingent is seemingly non-existent at the moment. That being said, they now have more professionals playing for them now than they ever have done and their keeper (son of the manager) plays as first choice for Cordoba. The gulf between them and England is still huge and if England don’t put at least three past them it’s a massive red face moment, but it’s not a tacked on 8-0 dry bumming like it was a decade ago.
Exactly, you could do it on a lottery basis and the gate receipts from the game could be donated to the player’s club, which would give them what I imagine is a much needed boost.
No Sincere Hall for Bermuda, surprised he hasn’t found a club yet. Guess there’s no rush when you’re a free agent, but you’d expect a bit of interest in him.
And some complain about Americans influencing our game. The F.A. may have long been associated with old farts running it, thank frig the above jokers aren't. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
You wouldn't give a footballer from the lower leagues a cap against San Marino or Liechtenstein? Harsh.
Teams that have already qualified for the 2026 World Cup (along with their world ranking - Teams in Bold are ): Concacaf USA (h) - 15th Canada (h) - 28th Mexico (h) - 13th AFC Iran - 20th Uzbekistan - 55th Jordan - 64th South Korea - 23rd Japan - 17th Australia - 24th OFC New Zealand - 82nd UEFA None yet CAF Morocco - 12th CONMEBOL Argentina - 1st Brazil - 5th Ecuador - 25th Uruguay - 16th Colombia - 14th Paraguay - 43rd UEFA qualifying is still ongoing, with the only team unable to qualify being Liechtenstein because they're ****e. African qualifying has three games left, with each group winner advancing to the World Cup and the four best second placed teams playing off for two extra spots. Egypt look most likely to win their group, with Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Ghana and Cape Verde looking likely to win theirs. The Oceania play off spot was taken by New Caledonia, who will face a team from South America, North America (after they've done their playoff round) or Asia. CONMEBOL qualifying is all but done (it started in 2023), but there's one round of matches to play. Either Venezuela or Bolivia will take the intercontinental playoff spot to face one of the other playoff teams. Venezuela play Colombia in the final round of matches, with Bolivia hosting Brazil. The main AFC qualifying is also almost complete, and has now moved onto the fourth round. Two groups of three teams will compete, with the winning team going to the World Cup and the second place team entering a playoff for an intercontinental playoff spot. The six teams will be Qatar, Saudi Arabia (the two most likely on paper), Indonesia, Oman, UAE and Iraq.
No I bleedin' wouldn't, it'd be an insult to players like Chris Sutton and Lee Bowyer who only managed one cap each. The joke thread is elsewhere, and many jokes on there have better punchlines, few have worse. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Game's gone then. Personally, I couldn't give a **** about Chris Sutton or Lee Bowyer. Steve Bruce never got an England cap and he did alright didn't he? Meanwhile, certified, mint in box dickheads like Joey Barton have got one and I'd rather some young lad from Scarborough Athletic, Spennymoor Town or Curzon Ashton got one more than he did.
It's a bit weird in some of the UEFA groups...Some groups, including the Jocks and N.Ireland, only started the games over this weekend, and the draw is on Friday 5th December. Cramming the games in or what?
There's a very good reason Barton got an England cap and players from clubs you mention never will. Bruce had better players ahead of him, and by your reasoning I suppose you'd give the likes of Boyce at Scunthorpe a cap ahead of players of Bruce's ilk. Hard luck Steve, but Rob Dewhirst really deserved a cap, bollocks, absolute bollocks. Abridged version, if you think the game's gone because they won't adopt your fruitcake idea, get real. That is all.
Kosovo beat Sweden lol. To be fair, Kosovo have some decent players. I dare say they might even have a better squad than Albania.
England away in Serbia this evening, the media are making a lot out of the potential for racial chanting and how that the England team has been fully briefed on the protocols of action that can be taken. Yes Serbia has previous, but oddly enough all the major teams in the Serbian league have ethnic minority players. Also made me wonder how will the players know if they have been abused if the chanting is in Serbian.
i see norway put 11 past moldova with haaland getting five and aasgaard four. disappointed to find that aasgaard's first name, which begins with t, is not thor (it's thelo, in case anyone wondered). he plays for rangers and used to play for wigan.
