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Possibly the most unusual scoreline I have ever seen

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    DesF wrote: »
    Ireland are a minnow.

    Couldn't beat Cyprus.

    Barely beat San Marino.

    That is the mark of a minnow.

    If only more people went to Tolka park of a Friday night, it could all be so different.




    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Yawn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Exactly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,952 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Boggles wrote: »
    Nothing strange or unusal about that result, I'm neither shocked or surprised. Here are a few mini suprises from tonight thou.



    Romania 3-0 Russia
    C Marica 45
    D Niculae 61
    M Niculae 75

    Why you suprised at that result? Romania were one of the best team in the quailfing for Euro 08

    ******



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Muff_Daddy


    Unusual scorelines? Was playing FM last night and my Crewe Alexandra team beat Hull City 9-5.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    The strangest scoreline I've ever seen was East Fife four, Forfar five.. now thats a tongue twister.

    http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,221812,00.html

    "Has there ever been the Saturday night score announcer's all-time dream result: East Fife 5, Forfar 4? There's AU$20 riding on it asks Hugh McGinley.

    Nearly but not quite. The Fifers visited Station Park during the 1963/4 campaign in the old Scottish Second Division and scored four. Sadly, their hosts still won, the final score being... Forfar 5, East Fife 4."

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    DesF wrote: »
    Ireland are a minnow.

    Couldn't beat Cyprus.

    Barely beat San Marino.

    That is the mark of a minnow.
    From the same time frame:

    Beat Slovakia 1-0
    Beat Denmark 4-0
    Drew 0-0 with Germany
    Drew 1-1 with Czech Republic
    Finished 3rd in Qualifying group.

    That is not the mark of a minnow. That is the mark of a frustratingly inconsistent team who with the help of a decent manager have the ability to improve on their consistency.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Here's an unusual story about record scores.

    http://www.arbroathfc.co.uk/s_2005/36-0_Revisited.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    "England 10-1 USA"
    The unthinkable occurred when Haitian-born Joe 'Larry' Gaetjens scored a headed goal for the USA's collection of dubiously qualified part-timers before the break and, try as they might, England could not hit back. When the final score came through back home, many thought 'England 0-1 USA' was a misprint and produced newspapers with the score 'England 10-1 USA'

    http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=366616&root=worldcup&cc=5739


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    That a minnow like San Marino can manage to draw with one of the bigger nations once a decade is being used to argue for their immediate involvement is strange; if anything it should be used to argue against it.

    It is a total waste of time having teams like Italy, France and so on thumping San Marino and co for double figures twice every campaign. A seeded set of prequalifiers would cut down on the number of these games and provide more evenly matched games. The bottom-seeded teams aren't being denied the chance as someone said - they still have the chance, but they have to prove that they have merited it. If they can consistently improve their performances over a certain period of time, their seeding will improve and they won't have to play these games.

    Likewise, if a previously high-ranked team performs abysmally over an extended period of time, they drop down the seeding. It isn't elitist, it is meritocracy.

    This system is used elsewhere in the world for qualification, I don't see why not in Europe. Other regions have the sense not to pit micro nations against the super powers. It's farcical.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,714 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    What teams do people want to remove?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    For a start : San Marino, Liechtenstein, Northern Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    In no particular order.

    The Faroes.
    San Marino.
    Malta
    Luxembourg.
    Liechtenstein.
    Andorra.
    Ireland.

    And I have no idea what the story is with Ex-Yugoslavic countries and Ex-CCCP states. Which of them are "minnows" etc?

    Although, with them seven I already named, plus a couple more, we could have a decent competition of minnows, with the best team coming out of it to compete in the normal group.

    Run this group concurrently with the already running groups, but a Tournament "behind".

    IE, the one that starts now in September for SA2010, the winner would enter the group stage for the qualification to Euro2012.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    I think only countries that have adopted the Euro should be allowed enter. After that results will dictate exclusion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Northern Ireland.
    Big lol tbh.

    NI are better than RoI at the moment, so I assume you'll be including RoI to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭raheny red


    Refugees 10-0 SPAs ftw.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    DesF wrote: »
    Big lol tbh.

    NI are better than RoI at the moment, so I assume you'll be including RoI to?

    Nah we get to stay in because we have "the greatest fans in the world".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Nah we get to stay in because we have "the greatest fans in the world".
    No. We don't.

    We have the worst fans in the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    DesF wrote: »
    No. We don't.

    We have the worst fans in the world.

    Steve Staunton is the "best manager in the world."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Steve Staunton is the "best manager in the world."
    World class management team was the BS the FAI came up with.


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