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***Official*** Road to World Cup 2014

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Road to Brazil 2014

European draw just taken place. England just avoid the French at the death:

Group A: Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, SCOTLAND, Macedonia, WALES
Group B: Italy, Denmark, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Armenia, Malta.
Group C: Germamy, Sweden, R of Ireland, Austria, Faroe Is, K'stan.
Group D: Netherlands, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Andorra.
Group E: Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Albania, Cyprus, Iceland.
Group F: Portugal, Russia, Israel, N IRELAND, Azerbaijan, L'bourg
Group G: Greece, Slovakia, Bosnia-H, Lithuania, Latvia, Lichtenstein
Group H: ENGLAND, Montenegro, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, S Marino
Group I: Spain, France, Belarus, Georgia, Finland

England 16/1 to win the thing; as long odds as I can remember for it. Even the patriotic punters factoring in the "Harry" factor it seems.
 

cpr

International Coach
Putting my money on Group D to have the upset in it. C too if Austria get going and Sweden dont.... Or if Ireland remember to show up for the first time since 94
 

morgieb

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Asia got....

Group A: China, Jordan, Iraq, Singapore


Group B: South Korea, Kuwait, UAE, Lebanon


Group C: Japan, Uzbekistan, Syria, North Korea


Group D: Australia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Thailand


Group E: Iran, Qatar, Bahrain, Indonesia

Pretty good draw for Australia IMO.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Groups E and G are ridiculously weak.

Calling Belgium to win our group. Got a lot of talented kids at the moment.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Nz's path

That means the Oceania champions – this will be the All Whites barring a miracle from one of the Pacific Island teams – will face off against the fourth-ranked Concacaf team in a home-and-away playoff to qualify for Brazil.

Honduras, who New Zealand drew 1-1 with in Auckland last year, are currently the fourth-best team in Concacaf at 51st in the world, followed by Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago.
 

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Interesting that the Philippines are already eliminated by the time the Euro draw for qualification is announced. Knocked out by Kuwait.
 

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Hadn't realised the World Cup 2014 groups had been drawn months ago. Looks like there's a big differential in the groups, some very easy ones and some very tough ones. Groups E and G are laughably bad. England's group looks tricky but it's the sort of one where there's a bunch of teams below that should all knock plenty of points off each other, so in reality there should be quite a margin for error. Scotland and Wales could have quite an interesting time, would be nice if one of them could really compete for qualifying. Ireland have another really tough group.

FIFA.com - 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil? Preliminaries: Europe - Groups and Standings
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Got to love Moldova though, one of the few states in the world which proudly claims crime makes up a considerable part of it's economy.
 
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grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Really think Wales will do well, their midfield looks particularly young and exciting, better than Englands potentially.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Just hate to think that Harry (long as he is not in prison) will be our manager by this stage, the extened honeymoon he is bound to get it is going to be bloody dire.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Will hopefully be banged up by then, thereby avoiding the situation, forever.

"yeah yeah yeah yeah Van Der Vaart son yeah yeah yeah Adebayor yeah yeah get him on a bung deal yeah yeah yeah".

(Shamelessly stolen from Barney Rubble's facebook page).
 

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