Re: (recent) historical ranking of European countries

Quoting James Allnutt in rec.sport.soccer:

>No, I agree with everything you say here - I would be surprised if a 
>bottom seed has ever not lost to the top seed

Hmm... not sure where we should put these?
WCQ02 Malta - Czech Republic    0-0
WCQ02 Lithuania - Italy         0-0
ECQ00 Belarus - Italy           0-0
ECQ00 Azerbaijan - Portugal     1-1

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