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What can I say except we'll done to France ,first team to ever turn a deficit of 2 goal down to win 3 nil ,
Looks like the French do have a bit of JE NE SAIA QUA!
Totally agree with XC about c7 in top form.
If France didn't make it the whole thing would have been a farce. FFS we are there and they pumped us 6 - 0 in a friendly a month ago
World Cup '98 in France was THE world cup that got me hooked to watching football as a whole, and for them not to be there would've been very VERY disappointing for me.
England's high chances of landing in a tough World Cup group increased further after Fifa threw a procedural curveball that could lead to Roy Hodgson's team facing Brazil, USA and Italy or Holland.
In an unexpected change to Friday's draw Fifa announced that one of the nine unseeded European teams in Pot Four, which include England, will be picked at random to switch to Pot Two. That pot currently has only the seven unseeded African and South American teams, so the switch will balance the numbers.
It means two unseeded European teams will end up facing one another and raises the possibility for the first time that England could end up in a "group of death" with Italy or Holland as well as Argentina or Brazil. Or they could still get lucky and draw Colombia, Greece and Honduras. The change was announced on the day Fifa admitted not all of the 12 stadiums required for next summer's tournament would meet existing deadlines amid rising concern over the construction timetable.
World football's governing body had the option of naming France, the lowest-ranked European nation, in Pot Two but decided instead that the one European team should be drawn at random.
The French president of Uefa, Michel Platini, expected to rival Sepp Blatter, the incumbent, for the Fifa presidency in 2015, is believed to have been the driving force behind that decision. Both Blatter and Platini have said they will decide after the World Cup whether to stand in 2015 but the shadow boxing has clearly begun.
Group G: Germany, Ghana, USA, Portugal
just wow
lots of brutal groups!
Australia got a raw deal also
England has a tough group
on the other hand, France doesnt even need to turn up and they will still go through
Russia should go through. They have been a little under the radar during the qualifying campaign - all eyes were on Portugal in the group stages but Russia finished on top
I cant see the USA progressing to the round of 16.