January 27, 2006

Fun Euro qualifier group

- This should be interesting.
- Define "interesting".
- Oh god oh god, we're all gonna die?

And with that quote from "Serenity" we move on to today's mouthful - the European Cup 2008 Qualifier Group draw. Sweden got Spain, Denmark, Latvia, Iceland, Northern Ireland and, believe it or not, Liechtenstein. Certainly a group we are capable of advancing from, but as you know dear readers (all four of you), we (or rather I) do not take anything for granted here on thepotcallingthekettleblack. In football, weird shit will happen. Spain is of course completely capable of beating anyone and anything on a good day and draw against Malta on the other days. Same goes for Denmark really, other than that they are also capable of losing against that former residence of the Knights of St. John. The odds that Denmark will have an off day against Sweden are not computable but they can stumble anywhere else along the road. Hopefully, Spain will continue to handicap themselves by always playing Raúl so we only have to contend with 10 world class players. There are plenty of wonderful players to choose from for almost all positions in the Spain team whereas Sweden and Denmark always will field their share of cannon fodder to supplement whatever stars they have available. Lagerbäck has said what he always says after a draw so I'll not quote him here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hej KB,

Your truly satt med en kräksjuk 3månaders och en skitsur 3åring i soffan häromdagen och blippade mellan Sverige B vs Jordanien A och Afrikanska Mästerskapen (jag har förträngt vilka lag som spelade).

Iallafall. Det var smärtsamt.

Påminde starkt om en liknande fjärrkontrollstango 2k5 när SVT24 visade ngn lättglömd brunkarmatch utan AIKs medverkan samtidigt som Juve mötte något lättsmaskat motstånd i Serie A.

Skillnaden i bolltempo, organisation och idé var lika uppenbar vid båda tillfällena.

Får vi en skada på someone, anyone i startelvan under VM eller EM-kval blir vi mosade. Mos.

Passa Derek.

Nils Johan Nilsson said...

Interesting to note that IFK Tax Evaders got butchered by St Gallen yesterday. Apart from Alexandersson, Svensson and Teddy we won't field any Allsvenskan players in the World Cup and the only one I'm worried about is Pizza dough Svensson.
Also remember that the difference in tempo you're pointing to is nothing new really, it's ALWAYS been like that. Hope your kid is alright now.

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