The Football Thread

England always get a bloody easy group whereas the navy blue midgets (Scotland) have drawn the reigning champions Spain (scary) and the Czech Republic (not as scary but still very good)

Another thing, why do UEFA pander to the ridiculous whims of the ex Soviet block countries who refuse to play one another ? (e.g. Georgia and Russia) If they refuse to fulfil the drawn fixture for non-sporting reasons, ban them outright from the competition.

Can we refuse to play Spain because it's likely their climate will blister our deathly pale and delicate milky white skin ?


Edited by ExittheLemming - February 08 2010 at 16:50

Fifty-one countries participated in the draw, which was conducted by four famous names from Polish and Ukrainian football: Andriy Shevchenko, Andrzej Szarmach, Oleg Blokhin and Zbigniew Boniek. The groups will be contested according to a league system on a home-and-away basis, with games scheduled between September 2010 and October 2011.

The nine winners and the runner-up with the best record against the top five sides in their pool qualify directly for the final tournament, the last before the championship is expanded to 24 teams. The eight remaining runners-up go into play-off matches in November 2011 to decide the final four sides to join co-hosts Poland and Ukraine.

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Only the top teams qualify outright with 4 other places going to the 4 winners from the runners up playoff. Could be a few big name casualties.

Sunday at noon we'll have the preliminary groups. I hope this is going to be a nice one; 2008 was very good. 


The EURO 2012 anticipation thread has now become The Football Thread.


Edited by harmonium.ro - July 30 2011 at 16:48