FIFA World Rankings

How the **** are England even 10th.

 

Was thinking the exact same thing. Although, since the World Cup we've been fairly decent I suppose.

 

As OLM says, England have had a surprisingly good run of results.

The question you should be asking is how the **** Romania are 7th. They've beaten no one of any consequence in ages, and they're still a pale shadow of the skilled Romania teams of the 90s.

 

We are just above Spain and Holland. If we played each of them ten times we'd lose more than we'd win. IMO.

 

Neither Wales or England should be anywhere near the top 10.

Also, I think I mentioned this last time, but Romania? What the ****?

 

apart from losing to holland in a friendly, wales haven't lost since september 2013. they've had a 0-0 and a 1-0 against 2nd ranked belgium in the current world cup qualifying group. they have a decent defender called james chester. they've conceded once in their last 5 games.

romania have conceded once in their last 8 games. in the last 14 games their only defeat was in a friendly in june last year. the last defeat in a tournament was november 2013.

spain have lost one of four games this year, against holland. in 2014 they lost 4 out of 11 games.

holland have lost one of four this year. their last 8 games in 2014 included 5 defeats and only two wins.

england are undefeated in 11.

 

England are like Arsenal in the Champions league, years upon years of easy groups, happily tuck in against the sh*t, flatter to decieve but when it comes to the crunch consistently come up short against any team of any strength, but in doing so do enough to maintain a strangely high ranking

 

I think what is more surprising is how the **** are Portugal 6th

 

MMM actually turns out portugal have won quite a few games...

I just think if you lose to Cape Verde at home, you should get -200 points

 

I saw these rankings earlier today & couldn't help thinking to myself, along with expressing to those in the brew room, that they were a load of ****.

 

how would you go about calculating them? which teams are in the wrong order?

 

They're always going to be bollocks, as international teams don't play enough competitive matches to provide a big enough sample.

Take Romania - since Nov 2013, when they lost both legs of their WC playoff to Greece, the highest-ranking team they've played competitively (based on current rankings) is 37th. The only games against top 20 teams have been a 0-0 friendly draw with Argentina and a 2-1 friendly defeat to Algeria.

They've climbed the rankings by narrowly beating Northern Ireland, a chaos-hit Greece, Finland and the Faroes (sorry Sterling), and drawing with Hungary. Would they prosper against the elite European teams? I guess we'll get some sort of answer next summer. I know a team can be more than the sum of its parts, but when you look at their squad, you've be very brave to claim they're really better than many of the teams ranked 8-25.

 

They should be beating us, we're bloody awful. And yet we're still ranked higher than, among others, Finland, Morocco, Cyprus, Canada and China.

 

when was the last time england lost to a team outside the top 20?

 

Since the introduction of the rankings I don't know if they have or not. They haven't in my lifetime, not to my knowledge anyway.

 

Either that's a massive non-sequitur or you don't realise who "we" are to Sterling.

 

Must be the same buffoons that have Hull down as a crap City