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[The Brit]

if anyone had any doubt that they were complete bollox, today should erase any second thoughts...England are now supposedly the fourth best team in the world   

a few average performances against mediocre opposition in euro 2012 qualifiers is apparently more than enough to make up for the dismal last 16 exit at the last world cup just one year ago...apparently we're better than brazil, argentina and italy...mmm...if only that were true

[dkw]

Its about time FIFA got something right........

4th is an utter joke. How the hell do they even work this sh*t out? Werent Mexico 2nd or 3rd for ages purely because they played about 20 friendlies a season?

[BrazilBlue]

What an absolute disgrace.
England 4th. Where the hell did that come from? They couldn't even beat Switzerland at home
Italy move up to 6th. Disgraceful, I watched them get destroyed by an Ireland B team last month.
Mexico up 19 places to 9th. Why? For beating one average side at that useless Gold Cup?
Uruguay drop 11 places to 18. Why they haven't lost at all in the last few months?
None of it makes any sense. It's absolute rubbish

[Andreas]

Norway 11th? really?

[BrazilBlue]

The Brit, on 29 June 2011 - 03:19 PM, said:

if anyone had any doubt that they were complete bollox, today should erase any second thoughts...England are now supposedly the fourth best team in the world   

a few average performances against mediocre opposition in euro 2012 qualifiers is apparently more than enough to make up for the dismal last 16 exit at the last world cup just one year ago...apparently we're better than brazil, argentina and italy...mmm...if only that were true

England had 2 home draws with Ghana and Switzerland in Wembely. That makes them better tha Brazil and Argentina for some reason

Edited by BrazilBlue, 29 June 2011 - 06:03 PM.

[chelseabootboy]

4th best get in.............my son.  

[BrazilBlue]

chelseabootboy, on 29 June 2011 - 06:35 PM, said:

4th best get in.............my son.  

England are not the 4th best team in the world. 10th at best in my opinion

[chelseabootboy]

BrazilBlue, on 29 June 2011 - 06:44 PM, said:

England are not the 4th best team in the world. 10th at best in my opinion

rankings prove we are my man  

[BrazilBlue]

chelseabootboy, on 29 June 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

rankings prove we are my man  

[chelseabootboy]

We are better than brazil mate, enough said!

[Hutch]

chelseabootboy, on 29 June 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:

We are better than brazil mate, enough said!

So you're saying that we, that is the England team managed by Fabio Capello, are better than the Brazil side that struggled to beat Australia?

I'll go along with that.

[moi]

Who are we to argue with Fifa?  

[BrazilBlue]

Brazil’s overall record vs. England

P22      W10       D9        L3.


World Cups

Brazil 5 - 1 England

European/South American Championships

Brazil 8 - 0 England


I'm not pissed about Brazil's ranking. 5th sounds about right for us right now. After we win the Copa America we should be back in 2nd. No arguments that Spain are top.
But England shouldn't be so high. They have done nothing to earn it, They had a draw at home to Ghana and then another draw at home to Switzerland. Mexico shouldn't be so high. neither should Italy or Croatia. Argentina should be higher, So should Uruguay and Ireland. The Copa America should bring the CONMEBOL teams back up to where they belong. Chile should be higher and Colombia.

[Katon]

BrazilBlue, on 29 June 2011 - 10:01 PM, said:

Brazil’s overall record vs. England

P22      W10       D9        L3.


World Cups

Brazil 5 - 1 England

European/South American Championships

Brazil 8 - 0 England

Very little of this has anything to do with the current rankings - even the fact that you knocked us out of the 2002 World Cup on your way to winning it is irrelevant in 2011, and most of the World Cups & Brazil-England matches happened before then.

Which is not to say England are the fourth-best team on the planet. Our record in qualifying matches has been pretty good for the last few years, but it's hard to argue we should be ahead of major teams who actually showed up to the last World Cup. The alternate ELO ratings have us sixth, behind you & Argentina and basically level with Mexico & Chile; I'd take those rankings over the official FIFA ones, at least at the moment.

[chelseabootboy]

lol reel him in!!!!!!

[Scooby Blue]

chelseabootboy, on 29 June 2011 - 08:14 PM, said:

We are better than brazil mate, enough said!

Well if that's what the rankings say then so be it.

The rankings are obviously more important than the amount of world cups a nation has won. If we can atleast draw our next two games we could find ourselves in the top 2 surely

Edited by Scooby Blue, 29 June 2011 - 11:08 PM.

[Scooby Blue]

chelseabootboy, on 29 June 2011 - 10:56 PM, said:

lol reel him in!!!!!!

[dkw]

I think this maybe is all about styles of football. Brazil play terrible, boringly slow football, no style or substance. Whilst England are well known for their stunningly beautiful passing game, a game admired the world over.

[chelseabootboy]

Spot on dkw spot on.....

[njegos]

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I think this maybe is all about styles of football. Brazil play terrible, boringly slow football, no style or substance. Whilst England are well known for their stunningly beautiful passing game, a game admired the world over.

ahaha