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Жоржиньо написа:Тия пък Англичаните за какви се мислят имат само 1 титла от големи първенства и то като са били домакини пълни смешнициуж били родината на футбол бягаййй бе
[/center]UEFA are great... at ruining a spectacle
Great team, Lithuania. Came fourth of five in European Championship qualifying Group I, winning one match in eight. Some feat that, considering there were two ties with Liechtenstein. Lithuania drew the one at home, and lost away. Still, a great team.
Almost as great, one imagines, as Bulgaria, bottom of European Championship qualifying Group G, having matched Lithuania’s solitary campaign win by securing three points in Wales.
Bulgaria did not win or score at home and, like Lithuania, conceded 13 goals in eight matches.
Great team, Bulgaria.
Playing fast and loose with the definition of greatness here is Martin Kallen, UEFA’s tournament director for Euro 2012 and a supporter of the expansion of the competition to include 24 finalists in 2016.
‘There are great teams who are not here,’ said Kallen, reeling off a list that included Bulgaria, Lithuania, Switzerland (finished behind Montenegro, never won a match away), Romania (won three matches in 10, two against Luxembourg, and finished six points off second-placed Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Slovenia (won four games in 10, scoring 11 goals, two of the wins and seven of the goals coming against the Faroe Islands).
‘The Scots are also not here - they bring a lot of emotions, a lot of atmosphere with them,’ Kallen added.
And a lot of fairly ordinary footballers, too, which is why they have not qualified for a major international tournament this century. Scotland have had it tough in some qualifying groups, true, pegged behind the likes of Spain, Italy, France and Germany, but have also failed to overcome Norway (twice), Belgium and Croatia.
The system wasn’t inadequate, their football was. Nobody is absent from Poland and Ukraine who deserves to be here. Indeed, it could be argued, given the Republic of Ireland’s showing, that the quality of international football in Europe is at its uppermost limit with 16 teams. Poland wouldn’t have merited inclusion without home advantage, either.
What is so infuriating about UEFA’s ruination of the world’s best football tournament is that they think we’re all stupid. For Kallen, who is a UEFA executive and we therefore suppose knowledgeable about football, to insist that the presence of a team who dropped four points to Liechtenstein in qualifying wouldn’t damage the standard of the competition is preposterous.
Unless Kallen is a fool, he knows the truth, as does UEFA president Michel Platini - but they do not entertain it because the motivations are financial and political. Letting in the also-rans secures national association votes and more qualifiers increases revenue, so who cares about the quality of the tournament?
Some believe that Platini and UEFA are great custodians of the game in Europe. And they may well be. Great like the Bulgarian team that lost at home to Wales and Montenegro. Great in the manner of the Lithuanians, defeated 2-0 in Vaduz in front of 1,886 people.
Great the way steaming great pillocks are great. Great like that.
гарфилд написа:Това е истина и ако някой се засяга от този факт,значи не е реалист.
BRF написа:Кво да правим там.И на кого точно липсваме?Аз също смятам,че 16 отбора са максимума за ЕП.Следващото ще е с 24.Е на кой от вас ще му е интересен Австрия-Латвия?
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