World Cup 2010 Qualification thread

yeah...because it's spelt CONCACAF

lol morelike "soccerball" amirite?

he sent a headshot into the netbag - one-nothing!

i bad want ireland to avoid england, they is the strongest in pot 2, despite recent silliness. i will change my mind about this if england appoint alan shearer as coach.

"we have got millions of people all over the world who are standing on the edges of their seats"

lol balancing act

this is even more boring than i feared

Group 3: North Korea, Jordan, Turkmenistan, South Korea.

Uh-oh

T&CA face the might of St. Lucia, the world quakes.

*T&CI even.

ugh do i really want to install RealPlayer to watch this on BBC site

I reckon we'll get Croatia again

I'm watching it on WMP.

it won't let me do that for some reason

never mind i figured it out

just in time for yerp

Winner FTW

go around with one of those stuck to your forehead

Press the red button for those with Freeview/Sky.

Australia/China/Iraq fighting it out for one place could be tough.

Thank god Turks and Caicos Islands avoided Bermuda, I'd been terrified of that.

Wales off to Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein.

England in group 9 would be nice - fewer games to play

altho it would mean Macedonia again noooo

bbc live link:

2010 World Cup qualifying draw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7109776.stm

the Flash thing on FIFA site is about 10-15 seconds ahead of the BBC feed btw

Cyprus meet Ireland again...

LOL England and Scotland in the same pot.

so far

Group 4 Russia, Finland, WALES, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein

Fuck that's going to be a hard group for England, away in Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Group 6 ENGLAND, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra

5 Live coverage was unbearably shtoopid so I'm sticking to text.

Scotland off to Scandinavia a couple of times, England's group looks alright for them...so far.

Andorra again. we'll need another miracle second half in Barcelona.

AWAY IN ANDORRA WILL BE HARD FOR ENGLAND AMIRITE?

who will be in seed pot 1 for ENGLAND?

away in Kazakhstan

happy with a point, tbh

Ha, England and Croatia!!!

:D

LOOOOOOOOL

REVENGEH

Croatia, AGAIN for ENGLAND

Croatia again. Bugger.

And Belarus as well. Inhospitable Eastern European trudges a-gogo.

Scotland and Netherlands, could be a lot worse for them.

how does qualifying work?

group 9 looks vvvv interesting

New thread: Who Should Get the England Job in 2010?

Ukraine not better than Russia or Israel so happy with this. England will at least get a point out of mighty Croatia this time.

top 1 automatic qualifers, some 2nd placers go through, and some in play offs?

Group 1 Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Albania, Malta

Group 2 Greece, Israel, Switzerland, Moldova, Latvia, Luxembourg

Group 3 Czech Republic, Poland, NORTHERN IRELAND, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino

Group 4 Germany, Russia, Finland, WALES, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein

Group 5 Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Estonia

Group 6 Croatia, ENGLAND, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra

Group 7 France, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Austria, Faroe Islands

Group 8 Italy, Bulgaria, Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Georgia, Montenegro

Group 9 Holland, SCOTLAND, Norway, FYR Macedonia, Iceland

Awesome.

862,000.00 Euro bonus for Domenech following France's qualification.

ok now i'm angry

because everything else aside france have qualified in spite of that guy, to an almost comical extent.

urgh

The French definitely do not appreciate sports in the same partisan way as other nations, btw. I was once talking to a mad-keen formula one fan there, and the only thing he could tell me he liked about it was 'the purity of the line'.

the basic decency of both sides here, plus the cynicism of FIFA, makes me think that a Fair Play award for the Irish fans is the inevitable outcome to all this

xpost: 'decency' typed before seeing Domenech's bonus

blatter would need to take preventative measures for that not to end up as fair play suppository in record time

France are basically the new England, aren't they?

The FFA had, I think, 10 million Euros to spread around as bonuses for this campaign.

oh well, nice for Slovenia

tho they'll have to give that all to Russia for fuel anyway

10m swedish linesman allowance, was it?

maybe the replay can be played inside a 7 foot high steel cage to ensure there's no outside interferences?

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instead of extra time and penalties there should be crossbar challenge. not easy to cheat that one.

Actually, one of the reasons Domenech is still in place after all that awful football (dating back to oh, around august 2006) is because it would be very expensive to fire him. Though when I see hisbonus, I'm kind of amazed. Good job Raymond, you did shit all along and are handsomely paid.

Didn't he decide not to select Pires in 2002 based on some personal vendetta?

Yeah, Pires and, I think, Giuly will never be in the team cause bth of them slept with his wife (before she ws his wife tho). Or at least so goes the legend. I sure hope it's for some other reasons too.

Wasn't the lol official line he never chose Pires because of astronomy? Guily totally banged her tho.

Why, is she ugly?

it was still LeMerre then Santini in charge in 2002 tho wasn't it?

gis estelle denis to see what his wife looks like. Also yeah, Domenech only came in 2004.

Looks like it was in 2004. He has publicly said that he doesn't trust Scorpios.

did she ever marry him?

http://www.jeu-de-main.com/

LOL. Between that and the Zidane head-butting game, France has done as much for stupid, football topical, internet joke games as any country in history

xxp Yeah as far as i kno she did marry him.

Cantona says:
"I think that Raymond Domenech is the worst coach in French football since Louis XVI. If it was up to me, I’d put (Bordeaux coach) Laurent Blanc in charge of the France team...He continues the season with Bordeaux, he wins the league with Bordeaux and he wins the World Cup! I’m not the only one who thinks that… What shocked me most wasn’t the handball, honestly. What shocked me most was that at the end of the match, in front of the television cameras, this player <Henry> went and sat down next to an Irish player to console him, even though he’d screwed them three minutes earlier. If I’d been Irish, he wouldn’t have lasted three seconds.”

<3

Ah, Eric. Imagine a team with both him and Keano in it. Everyone would hate them.

Monday morning not the right time to discover this.

you could have discovered it on Friday evening, six posts ago.

More fresh on the intertubes, however, is the heavy-handed sarcasm of Eurosport blogger http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/early-doors/article/213984/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8373804.stm

I considered quitting, says Henry

"After the 2006 World Cup, I thought about it, but it was too early," he said. "After Euro 2008, too, but it wasn't the right moment. There was a generation that needed me.

Such humility.

tbf, they have. benzema still not looking like a proper replacement, unlike ribery4zizou.

Fifa call extraordinary general meeting to sort out incidents at World Cup play-offs. In December.

god henry is a shifty jerk...had forgotten he was like this it's been so long since he was in the prem, that retirement thing is shameful. just take the flak, you handled the ball, stop trying to have class.

The bloke has to go to the world cup now, he won't even get a proper summer holiday

Chile out

Ireland in!

Who in South America would qualify in Chile's place?

IRELANDO

^ is very possibly right, given how cynical football authorities are. There's no obvious answer, because Uruguay got through to a playoff with Costa Rica and qualified from that. Colombia and Ecuador were tied a point behind Uruguay.

However, the Chilean club causing such offence is Rangers, so no doubt they'd drop their appeal quicksmart if there was a sniff of Ireland benefitting. Maybe the FAI could persuade O'Higgins to launch an appeal of their own as backup.

colonialist past coming back to haunt us. who knew?

there is always always a story about a country possibly being kicked out of the the World Cup months before it happens.

tends to happen with Greece. Algeria prompting it based on trouble in Khartoum is a bit of a long shot tho.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46761000/jpg/_46761766_ref466pa.jpg

Ireland asking if they can go to the World Cup after all. Costa Rica too, maybe. FIFA actually going to consider the idea, or at least go through the motions.

can we go to the world cup? we were drawing with france until they cheated.

hmmm.

Russia: Can we go to the World Cup? Andrei Arshavin.

I think Barnsley should be allowed to go after what happened at the weekend

http://euro2008girls.com/pics/swedish_football_girls-500x376.jpg
The Swedes are appealing too.

neil warnock called for you, mr blatter. didn't leave a message, said you'd know what it was about.

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