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There will be leaks because the clubs get sent the lists before they are made public so some people already know.

They were trying to cross the the Med long before the Royal Navy turned up, and will continue to do so afterwards as long as the problems in their homelands are not sorted out. It's good that the navy are saving lives, this is the sort of thing our services should be used for instead of starting wars for oil.

"I would be disappointed if I thought that, on the basis of a good season with their clubs, they can walk in and definitely demand a place." In other words, you can do f*ck all all season for a big club and walk in and get your place. Is it any surprise the national team is so sh!t?

England are just sh!t at football full stop, apart from one time donkeys years ago when we had home advantage and a dodgy lineman we have achieved next to nothing. 1 semi-final isn't it? We are way way below countries like Holland.

I'm still trying to work out what Henderson is good at.

How the **** does Walcott not get in that side. Garbage.

That's disgusting, who the **** chose green!

If someone from some African ****hole managed to earn and save £1000, travel across Africa to a lawless state riddled with conflict and risk their lives trying to cross the Med on an overcrowded, knackered old fishing boat - they have displayed the required attributes IMO.

Escaping torture, persecution, a country in grinding poverty or a failing state due to wars we have caused - not a huge difference IMO, I'm glad we are helping them. You have to be pretty desperate to do what they are doing.

It's all about money, and thanks to the Premier League we p!ss all over some clubs with bigger fan bases and better history. It's not methodology, just maths.

Yep, money. Lots and lots of money.

That was qualifying for it, I don't think I have heard or read a single thing from any Saints fan or anyone ever about us winning the bloody thing.

He's obviously going to leave, let's not kid ourselves.

There is not a chance in hell of us getting either.

I couldn't think of a region that deserves a World Cup less than the Middle East to be honest. It's offered precious little to World Cup football except got the odd sh!t team that's got through to the group stage just because the qualification system favours them over better teams from Europe. If the countries are not killing each other over some pathetic religion they are mainly run by corrupt governments riddled with greed with little interest in human rights or fair democracy and often intolerant, sexist and homophobic. A good fit with FIFA in its current form, and the opposite of sporting fair play. It would be fantastic if the World Cup is moved from Qatar, I don't think hardly anyone in football wants them to have it and this whole FIFA shambles opens the door for it to happen. Their whole bid was bullsh!t anyway 'air conditioned stadiums etc' I expect it could easily be stripped from them for winning the bid under false pretences.

Holy sh!t, you're still banging on about that! You boring bastard.

Shooting a psycho gunman = OK Shooing unarmered person = not OK I'm here all day if you dumb Yanks need anything else clearing up.

Probably. Still can't see it going ahead. The whole thing will be a farce.

Must have been that letter the South Africans released today.

The thing is FIFA have a billion sat in the bank and their reason for that is that they cannot get insurance should a World Cup not go ahead. Qatar won't lose out, everyone has lined their own pockets, Qatar will get compo and the U.S. get the World Cup - everyone wins.

Tough sh!t, I would love it if it gets moved to the U.S. don't give a moments thought to that corrupt Middle Eastern sh!t hole.

Think so, 15 of them.

Teams currently in the Champions League Play offs: Switzerland Basel Coeff. 84.875 Austria Red Bull Salzburg Coeff. 43.135 Czech Republic Viktoria Plzeň Coeff. 41.825 Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Coeff. 86.033 Netherlands Ajax Coeff. 66.195 Russia CSKA Moscow Coeff. 55.599 Belgium Club Brugge Coeff. 41.440 France Monaco Coeff. 31.483 Switzerland Young Boys Coeff. 31.375 Czech Republic Sparta Prague Coeff. 30.825 Turkey Fenerbahçe Coeff. 30.020 Greece Panathinaikos Coeff. 19.880 Austria Rapid Wien Coeff. 15.635 Plus 17 from the below: Wales The New Saints Coeff. 5.575 Estonia Levadia Tallinn Coeff. 4.200 Armenia Pyunik Coeff. 3.550 Andorra FC Santa Coloma Coeff. 2.666 Northern Ireland Crusaders Coeff. 2.475 Faroe Islands B36 Tórshavn Coeff. 1.450 Gibraltar Lincoln Red Imps Coeff. 0.550 San Marino Folgore Coeff. 0.349 Romania Steaua București Coeff. 40.259 Scotland Celtic Coeff. 39.080 Cyprus APOEL Coeff. 35.460 Belarus BATE Borisov Coeff. 35.150 Bulgaria Ludogorets Razgrad Coeff. 25.350 Croatia Dinamo Zagreb Coeff. 24.700 Slovenia Maribor Coeff. 22.225 Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv Coeff. 18.200 Serbia Partizan Coeff. 14.775 Sweden Malmö FF Coeff. 12.545 Azerbaijan Qarabağ Coeff. 11.500 Finland HJK Coeff. 11.140 Norway Molde Coeff. 10.375 Denmark Midtjylland Coeff. 7.960 Hungary Videoton Coeff. 7.950 Albania Skënderbeu Korçë Coeff. 5.575 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Coeff. 5.500 Latvia Ventspils Coeff. 5.350 Georgia (country) Dila Gori Coeff. 4.875 Slovakia Trenčín Coeff. 4.250 Lithuania Žalgiris Vilnius Coeff. 3.900 Kazakhstan Astana Coeff. 3.825 Moldova Milsami Orhei Coeff. 3.750 Montenegro Rudar Pljevlja Coeff. 3.375 Republic of Macedonia Vardar CC: 3.175 Iceland Stjarnan Coeff. 3.100 Luxembourg Fola Esch Coeff. 2.525 Republic of Ireland Dundalk Coeff. 2.150 Malta Hibernians Coeff. 1.591 Poland Champions of 2014–15 Ekstraklasa I don't know about you but I fancy Young Boys.

I'm hoping for someone rubbish and reasonably near for the first game. Looking at the teams in the hat it looks like it will probably be somewhere at the arse end of Eastern Europe though.

You don't need a wristband to get off your ass and do some exercise. Waste of money IMO.