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Germans are looking ominously dangerous.
Барбоса;2126101 said:Ferbs, if you don't qualify how can you claim to be deserving of being there?
I haven't watched football in years CAPS, you were decent some years ago.
If you're put in an unlucky group, then you're screwed, imagine Brazil, France, Spain and England, all 4 would be deserving.
Who doesn't love the name Schweinsteiger? I always love when the commentators say that name
Барбоса;2126143 said:You could get a harder group, yes. The Danes had a difficult qualifying group but still made it. If you cannot qualify for the World Cup finals from your regional groups you cannot claim to be good enough to be there.
How else would you judge it? Top 32 teams in the world? Then you would have the same 40 teams every time
Thing is Denmark only got into the European cup in 1992 because Bosnia was in civil war.
But either way sometimes the qualifiers are some shitty teams as opposed to what could've been in there really, you can't possibly deny that can you?
In 1978 we were on the march with Allys Army and we were going to win the world cup.But alas we were drawn in that years "group of death" with the soccer powerhouses Iran and Peru and it wasnt to be.
Барбоса;2126173 said:I cannot deny it but as the sporting cliche goes, you can only beat what is put in front of you. If you do not qualify, you could claim that you are a better side than some that do, but you cannot say that you deserve to be there because you aren't.
A totally fair system of qualification would be for everyone to play everyone else but that would be unworkable, especially in Europe where there are 50+ teams.
The current system is as fair as its going to get.