Guess who's above the Poms in the world soccer rankings?

ozziepost

OK you Merry Cans, time to get one back at those poms!

Today's news item:

Wednesday, July 20, 2005
It's official: USA are better than England
England have been overtaken by the United States in the FIFA Coca-Cola world rankings after dropping one place to eighth.
The USA, still managed by Bruce Arena who guided his country to the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup, have reached their highest ever placing with a rise to sixth.
It means a drop of one place to eighth for Sven-Goran Eriksson's England, who were 2-1 winners over Arena's side this summer, one behind France who have also fallen.
Scotland have dropped two places to 85th, displaced by Canada - beaten 3-1 under Berti Vogts - and Panama, who have shot up 15 places on the back of reaching the semi-finals of the ongoing Gold Cup.
Northern Ireland are up two places to 112th, level with Congo and overtaking Lebanon, while Wales have dropped one to 80th, behind Kenya.
The Republic of Ireland are static at 15th, level with Iran.

upside/down

Let the bashing begin!

u/d (of the soccer dad class)

nicolaou

Rankings schmankings. You got a source on this?

nicolaou

You mean ESPN? Hell, those guys know nothing....

ozziepost

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

Don't shoot the messenger.

Go Yanks Go!

Umm..Ozzie deah boy. Those rankings are handicapped rankings, similar to the way that a golfing score is worked out between 2 players of differing ability. A team like the USA gets more points for a nil nil draw than England get when they win.

I mean, c'mon! Czechoslovakia are in 4th place!

Phew!

Englishman.

ozziepost

But the Poms aren't!

Pole

I mean, c'mon! Czechoslovakia are in 4th place!

This ranking must be really old. So you were saying the 13 colonies are above England?
Pole

nicolaou

Lets put it this way, if England had to field a team of nine, arthritic, asthmatic pensioners then - perhaps - the US might actually rank above us.

We'd still beat them though....

Guess who's above the Poms in the world soccer rankings?

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