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Good teams can cancel each other out, doesn't make them poor. (In the England v Colombia match, both defences cancelled out the attacking games of the other side, however, over the 120 minutes, England were the better side imo.) How many times do Sky build up a clash of the big teams in the...

The Swiss have manipulated their ranking by being very selective in their opposition for friendlies, picking teams they know they should beat so that they can collect ranking points and have a false position as a result. We could have done the same thing to give ourselves a higher ranking but...

At what point does an opposition team become viewed as decent? - What is that change in view based upon? Top 16 in the World and 3 spots below England in the World ranking is obviously not enough to be considered decent by some, so what is it?

I always wonder why people make this comment and what it is actually based upon, knowledge, rankings or an assumption that we should beat anyone bar a handful of teams that are considered (by the person making the claim) better than us (Brazil, etc) Colombia are ranked 16th in the World by...

I know it was an extreme example, but i was demonstrating that you do not have to beat the best if you want to progress and sometimes there are benefits to not having to face the harder opponents on your side of the draw ,giving you a far greater chance of success and allowing you a greater...

I don't get all this "you have to play and beat beat the best to progress and win a competition, by that logic, given the 2 options below, you would be just as happy with either of these to be Brighton's route to the FA Cup final as, by that logic, they are the same and there is no advantage of...

If we had won the group, whats to say that we would have beaten Japan anyway (everyone expected us to beat Iceland in the Euros) and if we had lost to them, (or to Brazil in the next round) there would be criticism aimed at them for not engineering the result and finishing 2nd in the group (A...