Re: (recent) historical ranking of European countries

"James Allnutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> MMcC wrote:
> > You'd think the likes of
> > Andorra etc would find that more appealing than getting hammered all the
> > time.
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> A bit like arguing that ugly people would only want to look at pictures
> of ugly naked people because looking at naked beautiful people just
> reminds them of what they can't have.  Surprisingly, life doesn't work
> like that.
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> Anyway - Andorra lost all 8 games in qualifying by 0-1, 1-2, 0-2, 0-2,
> 0-2, 0-3, 0-3 and 0-3.

Well that has to be their best record to date, because usually it's upwards
of 3 or 4 goals a game. Of course some "big" teams often field less than
full strength sides against the likes of Andorra, which may explain some of
this.


>That's not a great record but it hardly equates
> to "being hammered" - in fact its a better record than most of the
> "minnows" in other confederations will get in matches against lesser
> nations - ie the sort of results you see in "pre-qualification" like for
> the Asian Cup where Guam lost 5-0 and 6-0 to Mongolia and Bhutan.

The degrees of "minnow" in some confederations like AFC and OFC really is
mindboggling when you think about it. Level 4 minnow hammers level 5 minnow
who later on is hammered by level 2 or 3 minnow.
I suppose it does make UEFA seems very tight by comparison.

> James
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