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England move upto 4th in the FIFA rankings
- Thread starter Bladders
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Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Exactly. We were unbeaten at the Euros also which people are quickly forgetting. Don't get me wrong we're not the 4th best in the world and these rankings are often odd BUT they are based on results and a results system. England often qualify fairly well for tournos (think we lost one match incidentally to Ukraine when we had 10 men and were already through, in both WC10 and Euro12 qualifying. But people will always remember tournos and especially poor ones like the WC i guess.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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4th ranked in the World?I don't care how they come up with that, it's complete and utter bollocks
How would you know - you 'can't be bothered to watch England'... remember?
16bha
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I love fact that Denmark and Greece are higher than France
rocker959
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What an utter load of crap !!
What is the formula then?
4th ranked in the World?
correct
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Deleted member 18477
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Regardless of the qualifying stages, England haven't reached the last 4 of a major tournament since 1996. Like others have said, the rankings are ridiculous.
... However it does keep giving us easier qualifying groups so I'll obviously take it.
IMO you should get BIG points for where you place in a major tournament and lesser points for qualifying games and friendlies. Italy won the world cup in 2006 and finished 2nd at euro 2000 & 2012.. Just how can they be lower? Oh because they've lost a few friendlies! FFS Fifa!
... However it does keep giving us easier qualifying groups so I'll obviously take it.
IMO you should get BIG points for where you place in a major tournament and lesser points for qualifying games and friendlies. Italy won the world cup in 2006 and finished 2nd at euro 2000 & 2012.. Just how can they be lower? Oh because they've lost a few friendlies! FFS Fifa!
I just looked up the calculation. Friendlies are included, and account for about 50% of the games in the rankings apparently. And nations are weighted according to strength so that bucket and spade holiday to London which Spain made a few months back will have skewed the England ranking somewhat. Ditto the victory over Germany I guess. This said friendlies have a lesser weighting than tournament games. I still think its nonsense to include non-competitive games though; allegedly it's because FIFA see them as important.
. It will be interesting to see rankings with friendlies removed.
. It will be interesting to see rankings with friendlies removed.
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The ranking is self-fulfilling in this respect.
TheMajor
BHA>CPFC
The rankings are crap - we should be in front of Germany they lost to Italy and we held them to a 0-0 over 120 minutes.
TheMajor
BHA>CPFC
...and we also beat Spain 1-0 in our last meeting - how the feck are they above us !
This - they're a joke
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Oh come on lighten up, even someone as passionate as you are about England can surely see that that ranking is LAUGHABLE?
For what it's worth I watched every minute of England's games this Euros and for the most part enjoyed it, massive improvement in every way on the embarrassing shambles of South Africa.
Correct. FIFA world rankings are. The clue is in the FIFA prefix.
Smythe
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Wouldnt even put us in that top 20. FIFA rankings a complete waste of time.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Get those trousers off!
That's total shit. Maybe 5-6th in Europe but we are in the top 10 in the world. Africa's full of shit as is Asia. Meaning Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (arguably) are better than us. I'd like to hear who you think the 13-18 better teams than us are.