England drops out of top 10

ENGLAND DROP OUT OF TOP 10




Posted 18/07/07 10:11

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England have dropped out of the top 10 of FIFA's world rankings for the
first time since September 2005 and are now ranked 12th.
The drop means Steve McClaren's side have fallen to their
lowest placing since June 2004 when they were 13th under Sven-Goran
Eriksson.
England have not played since the last rankings were announced
but have dropped four places from their position of eighth in June.
Holland, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Mexico, who have leaped 16 places, have all overtaken McClaren's team.
Brazil and Argentina have both benefited from their surge to the
final of the Copa America, with Dunga's side moving up two places to
assume top spot following their victory in the competition and
Argentina rising to second.
Italy, who Brazil replaced in first place, are now in third, while World Cup runners-up France also drop two spots to fourth.
Elsewhere, Scotland (22nd) Northern Ireland (28th) and Wales
(74th) have all moved up a place but the Republic of Ireland have
slipped from 38th to 39th.

Here are the new rankings, from the official FiFA site:

http://en.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html


The South American teams improving had to be expected, due to the Copa America (and no competitive matches for the Europeans at the same time). The EC next year will have a similar effect for the European teams.

1) The rankings are and always have been Cr@p.
2) It's probably correct that Holland, Croatia and the Czechs are ahead of England at the moment.

They used to be Cr@p, the newer rankings are definitely better.

This is just snapshot really, things will look different again once the EC qualification starts.

28th



We are normally happy to be in the top 100

Dark Savante wrote:

England have not played since the last rankings were announced
but have dropped four places from their position of eighth in June.
Holland, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Mexico, who have leaped 16 places, have all overtaken McClaren's team.

We haven't played either

Those rankings are complete and utter toss

Some of the African teams are surprisingly low, like Ivory Coast at 31 and Ghana at 37. I guess the ACN next year will push them further up the rankings though.

We're $h!t. We don't even deserve to be in the top 50

SACK MCCLAREN

Big deal. When we win Euro 2008 and JT lifts the cup for the first time no one will remember this moment

Tweedle wrote:We're $h!t. We don't even deserve to be in the top 50

SACK MCCLAREN

PS- ur mum is $h!t. GET TWEEDLE'S MUM IN THE SACK

I am Mum-Ra wrote:

Tweedle wrote:We're $h!t. We don't even deserve to be in the top 50

SACK MCCLAREN

PS- ur mum is $h!t. GET TWEEDLE'S MUM IN THE SACK

nice

I am Mum-Ra wrote:Big deal. When we win Euro 2008 and JT lifts the cup for the first time no one will remember this moment

after lampard picks up a long term injury reaching for a big mac and misses the tournament maybe

borocooper wrote:

I am Mum-Ra wrote:

Tweedle wrote:We're $h!t. We don't even deserve to be in the top 50

SACK MCCLAREN

PS- ur mum is $h!t. GET TWEEDLE'S MUM IN THE SACK

nice

DIP YOUR SACK IN TWEEDLE'S MUM

aside: also known as teabagging

@110-

England are written off, therefore less pressure, even with fat frank I reckon England will do well. People forget that, despite Mclaren being shite, he's got a good record in knockout football with Boro. No one in Europe looks particularly scary at the moment anyway. I expect the Man United contingent to gel for England and win us the cup. And make Otto cry in the process. Incidentally, where is the old boy I miss him

England will win it because they have 11 World Class players. The Golden Generation just has to gel, and they'll do it! They simply didn't have enough opportunities yet.

Give McClaren time, he'll decipher da Svenni Code sooner or later.

COTR wrote:





28th



We are normally happy to be in the top 100

the red hand gang?

Hysen = still top 10

(chins)

hey look,its glenn

blutgraetsche wrote:England will win it because they have 11 World Class players. The Golden Generation just has to gel, and they'll do it! They simply didn't have enough opportunities yet.

Give McClaren time, he'll decipher da Svenni Code sooner or later.

Glad you agree Blutster. Onward, for Queen and Country dear boy.


By the way, can you force the Ottmeister out of retirement, the stubborn bastard really has left under self imposed exile over some shambles of an excuse. And they say you Germans dont have a sense of humour....frankly im disgusted

I am Mum-Ra wrote:Big deal. When we win Euro 2008 and JT lifts the cup for the first time no one will remember this moment

NO YOU WON'T YOU'RE SHYTE!!!! You were outplayed by Croatia FFS!

Someone has to put things straight in this place.

Lucas Deano Neill wrote:

Ah, so this is what passes for humour these days. I have to say Otto was right: English comedy is becoming dreadful.

Honestly the hate towards English from French people is sad...fucking frog wankers.

Lucas Deano Neill wrote:Honestly the hate towards English from French people is sad...fucking frog wankers.

You say it as if you c**ts liked us. . I'm honestly saving you from yourselves here. TRWP was going to get you all worked up again, thinking you were gonna win the EC, and then when you crash out in the QFs, you'd be all sad. Now you have no illusions left.

Against Portugal probably.. on penalties

theflyingfrenchman wrote:

Lucas Deano Neill wrote:Honestly the hate towards English from French people is sad...fucking frog wankers.

You say it as if you c**ts liked us. . I'm honestly saving you from yourselves here. TRWP was going to get you all worked up again, thinking you were gonna win the EC, and then when you crash out in the QFs, you'd be all sad. Now you have no illusions left.

Yeah but at the end of the day...

England hates France...
Italy hates France...

Which means I have double hate for France

Oleguerisntthatbad wrote:Against Portugal probably.. on penalties

Are you Spanish? I like Spain...but what I'm getting at here is you aren't in any position to say anything.

I am just trying to help out our neighbours

I remember 2002 when France were supposedly by far the best team in the world and ready to win the WC again....

They finished bottom of the group below Senegal, Denmark and Uruguay

Euro 2004 wasn't much better for the little froggy frogs.

WC2006 Final was just sweet...:cheers

Lucas Deano Neill wrote:

theflyingfrenchman wrote:

Lucas Deano Neill wrote:Honestly the hate towards English from French people is sad...fucking frog wankers.

You say it as if you c**ts liked us. . I'm honestly saving you from yourselves here. TRWP was going to get you all worked up again, thinking you were gonna win the EC, and then when you crash out in the QFs, you'd be all sad. Now you have no illusions left.

Yeah but at the end of the day...

England hates France...
Italy hates France...

Which means I have double hate for France

You see we French don't "hate" anyone. Our point of view is that we're far too important to actually notice that there are other nations around; We're much more inclined to show disdain and sometimes pity. We're the most arrogant nation on earth after all.

Lucas Deano Neill wrote:I remember 2002 when France were supposedly by far the best team in the world and ready to win the WC again....

They finished bottom of the group below Senegal, Denmark and Uruguay

Euro 2004 wasn't much better for the little froggy frogs.

WC2006 Final was just sweet...:cheers

2002 was pretty $h!t. After all we owned Senegal, hitting the posts twice, having ten corners to their one, but still lost on their only attack of the match.
then against Uruguay, their dirty cuntish players kicked us off the field, yet we're the ones who got a red card. Hit the post again. Then we lost to Denmark, after having hit the posts twice. Again.

In 2004 we lost to the eventual winners, beating England along the way. Good enough for me. Better than Italy at any rate, and better than England too.

As for 2006, considering that we had Domenech as manager, we did pretty fucking well to get to the final, a final we dominated and should have won. But as we know, football isn't fair. At least we can be proud of trying to play football the right way, unlike England "hoof it", and Italy "catenaccio".