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Old 02-05-2006, 12:04 AM   #13 (permalink)
Samuel_Vimes
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Originally Posted by Great Birtannia
Who were the strongest team not to qualify from Europe? Greece have stunk it up since they won Euro 04, Turkey, Denmark? Uruguay are a strong side and would account for most of the nations on my list.
Probably Turkey (who finished third at the last World Cup, remember) or Russia. Still, I agree that Europe probably has enough places - it's the 5 African teams that are a crying shame. They're a much better footballing region than Asia, yet gets almost as many places, because the money is in Japan/Korea.

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