- Jan 19, 2006
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Takes place on Sunday. 15.00GMT.
Live video streaming of the draw.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html
international football is falling out of football fans interest in my opinion...its just so bad to watch.
England suffer 2010 seedings blow:
England will not be among the top seeds in the 2010 World Cup qualifying draw after their failure to reach Euro 2008. The defeat against Croatia has seen them drop to 12th in the world rankings after being leap-frogged by Greece.
This means they are not in the top nine European countries in the draw when it is made in South Africa on Sunday. They are in the group of second seeds and could possibly face a leading team such as Italy, France or Germany in a potentially hazardous qualifying group.
The nine seeded teams are expected to be Italy, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Croatia and Greece.
The nine group winners will automatically qualify with the best eight runners up playing off for the last four tickets to South Africa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7108764.stm
Mozambique U18's are likely to beat England at the mo...All of those who are seeded are likely to beat England at the moment.
i expect the format will be the usual, keep it simple, that's the key:
The teams will be split into 8 pots, numbered A to 9. A team will be drawn from each pot in the order of the FIFA headquarters phone number, minus any zeros, and put into one big pot, which will be stirred by a transexual Shania Twain look-a-like, called Pedro. A special little crane, controlled by the power of thought by Sepp Blatter, will draw two teams at a time, then each of the countries delegates will play Tekken to decide who gets first dibsies on the pot they go in. Portugal can't go in pot 2 or 3, Crotia will go wherever the hell the Gippos get drawn, France can't be drawn into pots F, Hercules or 2. Germany have refused to be put in any pot but 1.
Once the preliminary rounds of the draw are over, and everyones had a sauna and toweled each other down, then the balls will be swallowed, one pot at a time, by a magician from the Czech Republic, and pooed from the top of the Hague into a paddling pool full of naked children, who will then fight to the death. The winner will decide the home and away draws by scrawling it on the front of an EU approved fridge with a poisonous yellow crayon.
Every year, same thing, but it's simple and it works, so why change, eh? :shrug: