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Harry Kane! 3-1! After Dortmund had a very onside goal disallowed five minutes earlier

sevilla coach, legend

Akkerman wrote:sevilla coach, legend

What did he do I saw a video of Klopp having a breakdown over something

threw the ball away a couple of times, delaying the game; got sent off, i guess the ref and klopp did not see the funny side of it

Klopp was asking at the end of the game "what did I do" when one of the Sevilla staff refused to shake his hand.

Neymar donated his jersey from the Celtic game to the Kenny Dalglish's wife's cancer charity.

Man In Black wrote:

DragonKhan wrote:Harry Kane! 3-1! After Dortmund had a very onside goal disallowed five minutes earlier

The King of the North (London).

SASP wrote:Neymar donated his jersey from the Celtic game to the Kenny Dalglish's wife's cancer charity.

did he put some cash with it too?

20th in the world

129th when Michael O'Neill took over

earl the beaver wrote:20th in the world

129th when Michael O'Neill took over

Higher than England yet?

SASP wrote:

earl the beaver wrote:20th in the world

129th when Michael O'Neill took over

Higher than England yet?

Only 5 behind.

We're now ahead of:

Netherlands
Sweden
USA
Serbia
Tunisa
Egypt
Greece
Cameroon
Nigeria


All tournament regulars.

Would love us to make Russia next year, would be a fantastic achievement.

earl the beaver wrote:20th in the world

129th when Michael O'Neill took over

buy that man a drink!

though the rankings are a joke. Poland 6th

Give them their proper name

They are the Fifa Coca-Cola World Rankings

I read an interesting article that I can't remember fully but basically England and Holland both ended up damaging their seedings because they played friendlies against teams with a low ranking which basically meant no points going towards their rankings. I think Holland played a friendly v Vietnam which was the difference between Holland being drawn in the same group as Spain or not being, which obviously they came through, but not what you'd hope for beforehand. So the rankings are against the smaller nations getting games against big teams. IIRC some Maths expert from Romania rang the FA to warn them about the ranking/seeding repercussions of not winning one of the friendlies and to play a strong team which the FA obviously ignored and England drew, which was quite detrimental to the coca cola rankings, you could just imagine in the FA boardroom "we invented the sport and some Romanian know it all telling us to play a strong side, well bugger that let's give Andy Carroll a game".

le chat wrote:I read an interesting article that I can't remember fully but basically England and Holland both ended up damaging their seedings because they played friendlies against teams with a low ranking which basically meant no points going towards their rankings. I think Holland played a friendly v Vietnam which was the difference between Holland being drawn in the same group as Spain or not being, which obviously they came through, but not what you'd hope for beforehand. So the rankings are against the smaller nations getting games against big teams. IIRC some Maths expert from Romania rang the FA to warn them about the ranking/seeding repercussions of not winning one of the friendlies and to play a strong team which the FA obviously ignored and England drew, which was quite detrimental to the coca cola rankings, you could just imagine in the FA boardroom "we invented the sport and some Romanian know it all telling us to play a strong side, well bugger that let's give Andy Carroll a game".

I would suggest Holland did more damage to themselves coming 4th in the Euro 2016 qualifying group, behind Czech Rep, Iceland and Turkey. And to be honest the Czechs (who I support) have a very ordinary team at the moment and did so at the time.

Remember this from a while back

How Wales went from 117 to the top 10 in the Fifa World rankings

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foot ... op-9605270

MrJonno wrote:

le chat wrote:I read an interesting article that I can't remember fully but basically England and Holland both ended up damaging their seedings because they played friendlies against teams with a low ranking which basically meant no points going towards their rankings. I think Holland played a friendly v Vietnam which was the difference between Holland being drawn in the same group as Spain or not being, which obviously they came through, but not what you'd hope for beforehand. So the rankings are against the smaller nations getting games against big teams. IIRC some Maths expert from Romania rang the FA to warn them about the ranking/seeding repercussions of not winning one of the friendlies and to play a strong team which the FA obviously ignored and England drew, which was quite detrimental to the coca cola rankings, you could just imagine in the FA boardroom "we invented the sport and some Romanian know it all telling us to play a strong side, well bugger that let's give Andy Carroll a game".

I would suggest Holland did more damage to themselves coming 4th in the Euro 2016 qualifying group, behind Czech Rep, Iceland and Turkey. And to be honest the Czechs (who I support) have a very ordinary team at the moment and did so at the time.

No the one game v Indonesia was the difference I believe. If they hadn't played it their seeding would've been higher.

MrJonno wrote:

le chat wrote:I read an interesting article that I can't remember fully but basically England and Holland both ended up damaging their seedings because they played friendlies against teams with a low ranking which basically meant no points going towards their rankings. I think Holland played a friendly v Vietnam which was the difference between Holland being drawn in the same group as Spain or not being, which obviously they came through, but not what you'd hope for beforehand. So the rankings are against the smaller nations getting games against big teams. IIRC some Maths expert from Romania rang the FA to warn them about the ranking/seeding repercussions of not winning one of the friendlies and to play a strong team which the FA obviously ignored and England drew, which was quite detrimental to the coca cola rankings, you could just imagine in the FA boardroom "we invented the sport and some Romanian know it all telling us to play a strong side, well bugger that let's give Andy Carroll a game".

I would suggest Holland did more damage to themselves coming 4th in the Euro 2016 qualifying group, behind Czech Rep, Iceland and Turkey. And to be honest the Czechs (who I support) have a very ordinary team at the moment and did so at the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25134584

found it

BTW I was on about the 2014 world cup qualification, where they were drawn in the same group as Spain

everton struggling at atalanta 2-0

koeman out

Crikey Everton.

20,000 ticketless Cologne fans trying to gain access to the Emirates Stadium, KO delayed.

Wtf?? How did 20,000 fans think they could somehow squeeeeeze into the stadium?

MaccTaff wrote:20,000 ticketless Cologne fans trying to gain access to the Emirates Stadium, KO delayed.

Wtf?? How did 20,000 fans think they could somehow squeeeeeze into the stadium?

2 devant 2 derrière et le reste dans le cendrier (only if they are from dresden)

Sounds like there may be a little trouble between the stewards and the Cologne fans in the stadium..........this isn't shaping up too well. Think it will be ok.

Sounds as though there are Cologne fans all over the Emirates.

Tricky one - if the game goes ahead, and Cologne score there will be a problem. But if they call the game off now, then that creates 20,000 angry Germans. What a mess.

Surely Arsenal fans are too posh to start scrapping with hooligans given those ticket prices?
Let the Germans get their arses handed to them by the riot police if thats what they want.

I wouldn't worry. I once saw a film about football hooligans called Green Street and my big take away was that Arsenal have good football and a shit 'firm'. That and that football hooligans really don't like journalists.

Seneca of the Night wrote:This could get bad as even if there aren't many Arsenal fans around now, they can be aroused by social media fast, and those Cologne supporters could find themselves surrounded fast. The cops look very nervous around here atm.

They marched down and shut Oxford St earlier. Tbf they're good natured. It's just 20k of them seem intent on watching the game with a 3k allocation.

They are all over the Emirates right now by the looks of it. Should be fine.

Sterling's collapse just makes it so cheap to rock on up.

Seneca of the Night wrote:

Tim. wrote:

Seneca of the Night wrote:This could get bad as even if there aren't many Arsenal fans around now, they can be aroused by social media fast, and those Cologne supporters could find themselves surrounded fast. The cops look very nervous around here atm.

They marched down and shut Oxford St earlier. Tbf they're good natured. It's just 20k of them seem intent on watching the game with a 3k allocation.

They are all over the Emirates right now by the looks of it. Should be fine.

I saw heaps of them on the tube today, and they were great people. But there are some scumbag Arsenal supporters that could come out of the woodwork. That runs counter to most theories, but every London club does have them. Even Arsenal.

A group stage match in a competition most Gooners don't want to be in isn't going to enflame their passions. It's why so many of them has sold their tickets to the opposition who haven't experienced European competition in 25 years.

Some of the coppers are pretty obese.

Whenever there's a bit of football hoo haa and you're flicking through Twitter to see what's what, you can guarantee Casual Ultra will have footage.

Then you look down their feed and see some crazy shit.

https://twitter.com/thecasualultra/stat ... 7331140608

Someone wants to pay to see an Arsenal game?

The Man Without Fear wrote:Someone wants to pay to see an Arsenal game?

Good finish, rubbish by ospina. Wenger is doing an impressive job of getting decent players play badly while his selections and tactics are mystifying. I watched Ramsey play for Wales and he was a totally different player.

Still not sure what Walcott is for. Decent finish by kolasineac.

I can't actually believe this. Only losing the playoff final trumps my utter despair at the moment
We dominated for 90 minutes too...

Urgh, imagine losing to Luton

Man City well and truly put us in our place. Apparently they were brilliant, even if two of the goals may have been offside

edit: Aguero now has 9 goals in 5 games against us. He's just a big bully

Never a 4-0 game
Still United look very good at times
Everton will be ok when they get a decent run of fixtures