So today's the day of the draw for the qualifying groups for the world cup, who do you hope England get? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14318611.stm Simply because they seem like interesting places who we don't play often, I hope we get, from each pot: Pot 1 (somehow): England Pot 2: Turkey Pot 3: Israel Pot 4: Scotland or Northern Ireland Pot 5: Faroe Islands, Cyprus, Armenia or Estonia (Cyprus would probably be most preferable imo) Pot 6: Iceland. Who do you want us to be drawn against?
For easyness: England Hungary N Ireland Faroe Islands Luxembourg For interesting-ness: England Turkey Belgium Scotland Cyprus/Latvia/Finland Anywhere except Kazakhstan
IMO Best possible group: England Slovenia Belarus Albania Faroe Islands San Marino Worst possible group: England France Ukraine Romania Finland Kazakhstan
I think I can confidently predict: Scotland will have a hard group - and fail gallantly to qualify (as always) England (as always) will have a piss easy group, qualify, and THEN fail miserably. Enter Redknapp ! Wales and the Irelands???? wgaf.............
The European Groups are as follows: Group A: Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, SCOTLAND, Macedonia, WALES Group B: Italy, Denmark, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Armenia, Malta. Group C: Germamy, Sweden, R of Ireland, Austria, Faroe Is, K'stan. Group D: Netherlands, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Andorra. Group E: Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Albania, Cyprus, Iceland. Group F: Portugal, Russia, Israel, N IRELAND, Azerbaijan, L'bourg Group G: Greece, Slovakia, Bosnia-H, Lithuania, Latvia, Lichtenstein Group H: ENGLAND, Montenegro, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, S Marino Group I: Spain, France, Belarus, Georgia, Finland Got to say, with Montenegro, Ukraine and Poland we have a relatively strong group- i.r stronger thsn last World Cup Qualifying groups and the current Euro qualifying groups. I can still easily predict an England qualification, whether it be automatic, or, if the worst comes to the the worst, via a play- off. Saying that- its better than not qualifying at all. IMO, group of death is group I, Spain France and Belarus all in one group !! Georgia and Finland- better take advantage of a pre- booked summer hol !!
I reckon England could do well in Group H ! Don't fancy the chances of Scotland & Wales though in Group A.
That looks pretty good for England, especially when looking for countries, that give the players opportunity for getting up to their, well publicised hi-jinks, this list offers thin pickings indeed.
