Is that a similar book to "Up Pohnpei" with the two English guys who go out to coach the tiny Pacific island nation? Quite different. It looks into a number of teams in the world near or at the bottom of the world rankings who have slim to no hope of qualifying for the World Cup and follo...

Will Gibraltar get a ranking soon? No, as they are not affliated to FIFA only UEFA. Ah right How do you become Fifa affiliated then? I read about this. I think you need to be a member of the United Nations now to join UEFA, but Gibraltar got in through the back door because their application was su...

and bringing up the rear... Rnk Team Pts +/- Pos 181 Turks and Caicos Islands 66 26 Up 182 Seychelles 64 -1 Down 183 Curaçao 63 -1 Down 184 Faroe Islands 61 -13 Down 185 Mauritius 56 -1 Down 186 South Sudan 43 -1 Down 187 Vanuatu 38 3 Up 188 Fiji 31 0 Equal 189 Mongolia 29 -2 Down 190 US Virgin Isla...

From Despair To Where? American Samoa. The only national football association with the balls to select a transgender player.

Have you also read this?



It is a football obscurantists wet dream.

Isn't there going to be more teams this time out? 32?

ETA: Sorry, its 24 up from 16 apparently. So almost half of the teams that enter will qualify.

Kicks off less than a year from now, with a round-robin, single-venue Oceania preliminary tournament taking place between 8-16 June 2015. Participating teams will be American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga. This happens before the preliminary draw in St Petersburg on July 15, a year from today...

Kicks off less than a year from now, with a round-robin, single-venue Oceania preliminary tournament taking place between 8-16 June 2015. Participating teams will be American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga. This happens before the preliminary draw in St Petersburg on July 15, a year from today...

- England have not beaten what can sensibly be described as a top class team in a competitive game since 7 June, 2002, when we beat Argentina 1-0 in Sapporo. Over 12 years ago. That's well before both of my children were born. - Just 23% of players in top four Premiership clubs last year were eligib...

Hard to see past a South American winner. Argentina have the easiest run to the quarter finals. So Argentina for me. Brazil in the final too. Has a host country ever gone out in the early rounds? You have to go all the way back to 2010 to find an example of this. That was the only time though wasn'...

leww_rfc Chile (It's their continent so can handle the heat, already put on a great performance at Wembley recently. Dark horses for me.)

Look at a map. Chile is far south of most of the World Cup venues. Santiago is pretty cold for most of the year.

Brighton
Preston
Burton

Stupid idea. All you need to do is cap the number of foreigners ( non English ) in clubs starting 11s to 5 so that means on the field of play there must always be at least 6 English players (the definition of English being, born in England or having an English parent) in any one side. Unfortunately...

Has this not been moved to General Football yet?

Stuka IN before the move to 'General Football' forum.

Ah. I thought I had posted this in General Football. My mistake. Yeah move it.

A somewhat controversial proposal being meted at the FA: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27289819 It is being proposed that the teams could play in a league sandwiched between League Two and the Conference. Another option is to merge League Two and the Conference with the B teams to form two reg...

Wax Jacket Angola

go on...

England - about 40 grounds, league and non-league. About 10-15 of those stadiums no longer in use Wales - just Cardiff and Swansea Italy - Bari in Serie B years ago Japan - all of the 2002 World Cup stadia plus about 20 others. Watching football in Japan is brilliant South Korea - a couple of World...

This was their eventual choice:

Manchester City's American sister club, NYCFC, who'll be kicking off in the MLS next year, are asking fans to design a badge for them. Some of these are not bad at all: http://www.mlssoccer.com/sideline/news/article/2014/02/04/new-york-city-fc-ask-fans-create-their-best-club-logo-designs https://pbs...