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7 for Belgium so far - softened my awful bet on the Wales game at least and maybe even better now...
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Denmark could have another sent off and still get through. We are back as Dr Jekyll again. All composure gone.
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Well done Scotland
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WORLD CUP PLAYOFF POTS
1️⃣ Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Ukraine 2️⃣ Poland, Wales, Czechia, Slovakia 3️⃣ Ireland, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo 4️⃣ Romania, Sweden, N Macedonia, N Ireland Pot 1 has home advantage v Pot 4; Pot 2 home v Pot 3. 1/4 plays 2/3 at venue tbc in draw (Thurs 12pm). |
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Thanks CLYDEBANK29.
It’s taken me 60 years to stumble across the way to see Scotland succeed - root for the opposition! What an achievement by Clarke! |
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Rankings for play offs
Pot 1 Italy Denmark Turkey Ukraine Pot 2 Poland Wales Czechia Slovakia Pot 3 ROI Albania Bosnia Kosovo Pot 4 Sweden Northern Ireland Romania North Macedonia |
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Good luck to Wales Northern Ireland and the ROI in the play offs
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Great stuff, very pleased to see it happen again.
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Great point I concur very much.
PS. THE Donald’s Ma was Scottish. Do you think he’ll be supporting us.? I heard a great comedy line on the radio today. Interviewer to Donald Trump : Will you be supporting Scotland at Hampden tonight? POTUS answer : Yeah, Hampden. I played golf there once!  |
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Some crunch games in CONCACAF later tonight. Suriname Curacao (where Pinny is based) and Haiti all on the brink of history for a first WC appearance (I think). Suriname in South America, so it could be a case of naming the countries that didn't make the WC from that continent.
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world cup European qualifying groups over,Sweden havnt won a game out of 6 matches and can still qualify through the play offs,THE WORLD CUP HAS GONE, I,d imagine Sweden could qualify and maybe get as far as quarter finals ,without winning a game in this bWORLD CUP CAMPAIGN
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Curucao and Haiti qualify. Curucao's population only a little over 150k! Quite an achievement but only one of Curucao's squad born in Curucao
The rest born in The Netherlands! Formerly called the Dutch/Netherlands Antilles. A good achievement nonethelessSuriname bottled it but an injury time own goal to reduce the deficit to 3-1 got them in the play offs. Frequent qualifiers Costa Rica and Honduras played out a 0-0 draw. Honduras were going in the play offs until the Suriname goal. A win would've got them automatic ahead of Haiti. A win for Costa Rica would've got them in the play offs over Suriname. Both teams must be dreadful for it to end 0-0 and neither can possibly deserve to qualify in those circumstances |
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Thanks for the info. CLYDEBANK29.
Don’t think it’s gone 1tp but I agree that too many better countries miss out. Qualifying formula could certainly be improved, I agree. |
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mighty18 Nov 25 20:49Joined: 20 Jun 05 | Topic/replies: 435 | Blogger: mighty's blog
I bet the draw in Iraq game They allocated 10 minutes additional minutes and ended up playing 18. Sounds like they were going to carry on playing until Iraq scored ! |
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Highest ranked teams (November 2025 ranking)
that have been ELIMINATED from WC qualifiers: #37 Serbia #38 Nigeria #40 Hungary #46 Greece #48 Venezuela #49 Costa Rica #51 Peru #52 Chile #53 Mali #55 Slovenia #57 Cameroon #62 Burkina Faso |
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I see the Wally With the Brolly has resigned after Jamaica failed to beat the mighty Curacao this morning. They showed no real urgency for much of the game, very strange. They woke up in the second half and hit the woodwork several times, looked like they would get out of jail in the 94th minute when the ref gave them a penalty but thankfully VAR intervened as the defender clearly won the ball. Jamaica can still qualify via the play offs so all is not lost for them yet.
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Off for a beer can sandwich is our steeve
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Given his previous , i was half expecting his resignation speech to be in patois
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Everybody was disappointed it was not.
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How will the World Cup Finals Draw work with 6 unknown teams , pot 1 has the 3 hosts and the top 9 ranked teams which is settled now i think , but they wont know which teams will qualify for the other pots , uefa should really have had 8 groups with top 2 qualifying and pre qualifying to get the groups down and with 48 teams qualifying scrap the intercontinental play offs.
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I love the format but it can badly interfere with
club games.It keeps so many nations alive with a hope of getting to USA. I'm not sure fifa have decided exactly how the undecideds will be allocated as Italy would be an extremely difficult floater, could easily allocate places based on world rankings to balance groups. From Dale Johnson, ex espn, now of the BBC... Fifa hasn't published the regulations yet, and it could choose to seed each playoff path by the highest-ranked team. That would mean, for instance, the Uefa paths of Italy and Denmark would be in Pot 2. For the 2022 World Cup, the playoff paths all went into Pot 4. |
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I have seen now they have said the 6 play off winners are in pot 4 , the world rankings were updated today . so Italy would be in pot 4
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Italy are 12th, Denmark are 21 in world rankings.
Dale will have had a nod about potential changes. They are parked in pot 4 for now. |
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Norway World Ranked behind Australia, Iran and South Korea. How ridiculous!
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weren't Norway's results pretty rubbish up until mid 2024 ?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_national_football_team_results_(2020%E2%80%93present)
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The Draw for the Intercontinental play offs is tomorrow , DR Congo and Iraq are seeded to the 2 finals , Bolivia and New Caledonia will be drawn against Jamaica and Suriname in the semi finals
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My post of a minute ago referred to moderators. I made one perfectly reasonable and legitimate error. See if you can work it out.
“Richard Advocaat manages Curacao”. |
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I'm not egging you on
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 . I once had an uncle Richard. I/we are not allowed now to use his family name of Rick with a D. |
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My favourite dessert is a British steamed pudding, historically made with suet and dried fruit (usually currants or raisins) and often served with custard.
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Where and when did you first spot that?
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Too much dick talk on here
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Path A
SF1: Italy v Northern Ireland SF2: Wales v Bosnia-Herzegovina Path B SF3: Ukraine v Sweden SF4: Poland v Albania Path C SF5: Turkey v Romania SF6: Slovakia v Kosovo Path D SF7: Denmark v North Macedonia SF8: Czech Republic v Republic of Ireland Draw for the finals: Winner of SF2 (Wales Bosnia-Herzegovina) at home v winner of SF1 (Italy v Northern Ireland). Winner of SF3: (Ukraine and Sweden) at home v winner of SF4 (Poland v Albania). Winner of SF 6 (Slovakia v Kosovo v winner of SF5 (Turkey v Romania) Winner of SF8 (Czech Republic v Republic of Ireland) at home v winner of SF7 (Denmark v North Macedonia). |
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Wow! It must have been crrraaahhhhseeoh they didn’t like. Not. They didn’t like spotted Hern either.
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Or is it the capital Dee?
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Ukraine play their home games in Poland. So questionable what advantage that is and will be interesting how the fan allocation would be split if they do play each other. Great draw for Sweden. Got the weakest top seed and a home draw if they win. Awful for Northern Ireland. Decent draw for the ROI.
Jamaica and Bolivia avoided each other so they should be happy |
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I felt it a bit off, seriously, that the PM congratulated Scotland in getting there but didn’t when England did. It’s a compliment really. It would only be news if England didn’t make it.
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Some early 1.46 on Denmark at home to North Macedonia snapped up already. Not surprised
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Keir Starmer needed to get it in early. Might not be in office when the WC starts
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