View Full Version : The British Isles should form their own confederation
Slash/ED
20 Dec 2002, 07:48 PM
And demand 4.5 spots, lets face it, Rep Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales would do more then Asias 4.5 spots, and Northern Ireland can play off with Australia, can't see a problem with it myself.
Luther_Gabriel
20 Dec 2002, 07:53 PM
Funny...almost as ridiculous as the new allotment.
Knave
20 Dec 2002, 09:30 PM
OK. Now we're getting silly. ;)
Prenn
21 Dec 2002, 03:49 AM
But he does have a point...
Ben OZ
21 Dec 2002, 06:43 AM
I quite like it, though I reckon we'd still find a way of losing, this time to Northern Ireland!
greatscott
21 Dec 2002, 12:21 PM
:mad: , if the isles get there 4.5 spots shouldnt north and latin america? i mean, honduras, el salvador, guatemala and Haiti would do more than the isles 4.5... :D
Leto
21 Dec 2002, 03:37 PM
That just took it to a whole new level of crazy... :)
Nobby
21 Dec 2002, 04:23 PM
A 200 team World Cup Final would be better. 50 groups of 4. Top 2 advance + 28 of the best third place teams. 128 play in a single elimination tournament. Thats 7 rounds to determine a champion + a 3rd place game. All our allocation problems are solved.:)
roarksown1
27 Dec 2002, 02:54 PM
Originally posted by Nobby
A 200 team World Cup Final would be better. 50 groups of 4. Top 2 advance + 28 of the best third place teams. 128 play in a single elimination tournament. Thats 7 rounds to determine a champion + a 3rd place game. All our allocation problems are solved.:)
I like it...in a weird, drugged-out flashback kind-a-way...
soccerhooligan33
01 Jan 2003, 10:29 AM
How long would the tournament be then?
USsupport
02 Jan 2003, 01:48 PM
no longer than the current qual process.
nicodemus
03 Jan 2003, 02:10 PM
i can't believe i'm chiming in on this ludicrous thing, but the whole process is the world cup, the tournament at the end is the world cup finals, not to be confused with the last game, the world cup final. :p
DoyleG
17 Jan 2003, 01:50 AM
Why don't you just restart the British Home Championships.
Prenn
17 Jan 2003, 03:55 AM
Originally posted by DoyleG
Why don't you just restart the British Home Championships.
Beacuse the Republic wouldn't be involved.
cosmosRIP
20 Jan 2003, 03:41 PM
For the 1950 & 1954 WCs the British Home Championships were used as qualifying tournaments.
striker
22 Jan 2003, 07:11 PM
Originally posted by DoyleG
Why don't you just restart the British Home Championships.
When I was growing up, I recall watching England, Scotland, Wales and (Northern?) Ireland playing each other in some summer tournaments. Was it the British Home Championships. If so, what happened to it?
Prenn
23 Jan 2003, 06:14 AM
Originally posted by striker
When I was growing up, I recall watching England, Scotland, Wales and (Northern?) Ireland playing each other in some summer tournaments. Was it the British Home Championships. If so, what happened to it?
That was it
It was stopped due to the fact that England and Scotland counldn't be bothered and the violence that went with it.
Samarkand
23 Jan 2003, 03:57 PM
Also, England felt that they needed 'better quality' opposition.
SJFC4ever
24 Jan 2003, 10:30 AM
I think Scotland were in on that as well. We ended up playing some silly competition (Rous Cup?) so that the good bit of the Home Internationals could be kept (ie England v Scotland), but we didn't have to play those diddy teams from N. Ireland or Wales. :) But like most silly competitions, it died after about five years through lack of interest.
badwolf
28 Jan 2003, 08:57 PM
Originally posted by SJFC4ever
I think Scotland were in on that as well. We ended up playing some silly competition (Rous Cup?) so that the good bit of the Home Internationals could be kept (ie England v Scotland), but we didn't have to play those diddy teams from N. Ireland or Wales. :) But like most silly competitions, it died after about five years through lack of interest.
But 'diddy' (as you put it) Northern Ireland were the last team to win the competition, in fact they won 2 out of the last four.
I accept that today it is put out by football writers that violence and "quality" were the reasons it ended but it was really England's poor gate receipts for games at Wembley (except Scotland)that killed it. I'm not sure of the year but England v Wales (think 1983) only attracted 18,000. That was the last straw for the FA.
Given the record of all England and Scotland since ..it would be a good idea to bring it back, at least England would win a trophy again.