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[ARC]

In case anyone's interested, they are drawing the team groups for next summer's World Cup tonight.

I really hope England do NOT draw in the same group as Brazil. I'm not even sure if this is possible - are England seeded...??





Edit: New subject. /jarmo

[jarmo]

POT ONE (SEEDS)
Germany (hosts)
Brazil (holders)
Argentina
England
France
Italy
Mexico
Spain

POT TWO
Australia
Angola
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Togo
Tunisia
Ecuador
Paraguay

POT THREE
Croatia
Czech Republic
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine

POT FOUR
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago
USA

Special pot: Serbia & Montenegro



/jarmo

[ARC]

Ah good.

So England cannot draw Brazil or France. That's a relief

[Evolution]

Trinidad And Tobago and Serbia made it?? But Scotland did'nt? 



I hope England get the group of death 

[Ignatius]

Let's take a guess...

Spain will have Paraguay, Poland & USA

It's great that they made us seeds, but in all honesty we haven't done anything yet. We may have a better FIFA quotient, but we are yet to win a world cup. The question is, will Spain go any further than the quarters this time?

[Mr. Dick Purple]

I hope Ecuador wins the group
Now in real life I will team once again for England 

[jarmo]

It's great that they made us seeds, but in all honesty we haven't done anything yet. We may have a better FIFA quotient, but we are yet to win a world cup. The question is, will Spain go any further than the quarters this time?

Yeah, they had to qualify by playing play off games against Slovakia. 

I don't expect them to go any further than quarter finals.


I hope the Netherlands gets an "easy" group... 



/jarmo

[Mr. Dick Purple]

Ecuador Vs Germany Group A 
Also Poland  Even though Poland beat the shit out of us last month in a friendly match
NOw Costa Rica, shit next month was going to be a friendly match in my city with them but I think thats not possible 

[Danny Top Hat]

That's a fairly good draw I guess.  Sweden will give us a tough game as always but we should be able to get through it.

Most of the groups only have one very strong team.  I'm looking forward to Holland/Argentina, that should be a cracker!

[Izzy]

We have such an easy world cup group - god bless the weak football nations that clog up the world cup and mean its the quater finals before we see anything approaching good football

[Evolution]

We have such an easy world cup group - god bless the weak football nations that clog up the world cup and mean its the quater finals before we see anything approaching good football

Nah you English are dead! Mon The Swedes!

[ARC]

GROUP A


Germany
Costa Rica
Poland
Ecuador


GROUP B


England
Paraguay
Trinidad & Tobago
Sweden


GROUP C


Argentina
Ivory Coast
Serbia & Montenegro
Holland


GROUP D


Mexico
Iran
Angola
Portugal


GROUP E


Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic


GROUP F


Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan


GROUP G


France
Switzerland
South Korea
Togo


GROUP H


Spain
Ukraine
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia

[Hammy]

GROUP B
England
Paraguay
Trinidad & Tobago
Sweden

Got to be happy with that, could not of gone much better for us, now if that's not an easy group i don't know what is...

[Evolution]

My boys from Trinidad are gonna fuck you up! 

[Ignatius]

Group C is the Death Group...Good luck jarmo?

I'm very happy with our group; Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia..I think this is the easiest one.?

[jarmo]

GROUP B
England
Paraguay
Trinidad & Tobago
Sweden

Got to be happy with that, could not of gone much better for us, now if that's not an easy group i don't know what is...

You must be joking. England will play a draw with Sweden, struggle with Paraguay and win over Trinidad & Tobago.

Group C is the Death Group...Good luck jarmo?

I know.?

Holland should beat each one of them, but that's just in theory....



/jarmo

[Hammy]

You must be joking. England will play a draw with Sweden, struggle with Paraguay and win over Trinidad & Tobago.

If your to believe all the press about us having even half a chance of winning then a group like that SHOULD be a walk over, fine it probably won't be but it should be.  It could of been much worse, we managed to avoid the likes of Holland thank God....

[Ignatius]

I don't think England is a favorite. Yes, England won 1 world cup but that was 40 years ago? Since then they've done nothing...Just like Spain. Always get seeded but then lose in the quarters, same as England.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike England, as a matter of fact, They have a very solid team this time, but media in our countries puts too much pressure on our teams when there shouldn't be.

[Voodoochild]

GROUP F


Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan

Humm, not so strong for us, brazilians. That's cool, but I really hope Croatia isn't as strong as in '98.

[Hammy]

I don't think England is a favorite. Yes, England won 1 world cup but that was 40 years ago? Since then they've done nothing...Just like Spain. Always get seeded but then lose in the quarters, same as England.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike England, as a matter of fact, They have a very solid team this time, but media in our countries puts too much pressure on our teams when there shouldn't be.

I thought we were 2nd seeds, and looking at the odds in the paper we are one of the favoured teams.  Obviously everyone knows deep down Brazil will win...