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Now tell them that they are a different club. Wear a hard hat.

I won't commemnt on the word Hunathon!
However, Lingfield v Rangers is a frequent fixture, and I doubt that this is the first meeting at Ibrox.

120 Scotland :) :) :) :) He who laughs first. I am not convinced there will be any British teams in Brazil. I can see England being the 9th placed runner-up, and hence not making the play offs! I have done my review, on http://www.leohoenig.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fals...

Where was the USA match being played? Denver, Colorado. At the wonderfully named "Dick's Sporting Goods Park". All profits to Arsenal FC, (the day to day operations of the ground is operated by Kroenke Sports Enterprises), Stan Kroenke (through various companies owns Denver Nuggets (Baseb...

USA v Costa Rica

121. New Caledonia. If there is a New Zealand equivalent of Barry Davies, then surely he will have said "What a delighted scorer, its Tommy Smith!!", as the Ipswich Town player scored an injury time winner to make the final Oceania group match irrelevent. New Zealand go through to an inter...

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Japan will be first to qualify if they win, New Caledonia will probably be the only team knocked out this month.

Only CONCACAF has restarted for the new year, with three games, the first in their 10 match series to decide the continents finalists. Surprise results though, with the USA caught cold. Their players have been on break as its the close season, while Honduras have just been playing in the Copa Centro...

14 November - 4 matches played in Asia, two in Europe. No teams qualified for next round or knocked out, but Japan are closing in on a place in the finals with a 2-1 win in Oman. STuttgart's Shinji Okazaki scored the late goal, which puts Japan (13 points from 5 games) no less than eight points ahea...

I'll try and add some detail later 124. Canada - after a shocking 8-1 defeat in Honduras. Panama draw 1-1 in Cuba 123. Guatemala - losing 3-1 to the USA in a game where both through if drawn. Jamacia scramble ahead on goals after beating Anigua & Barbuda 4-1 122. El Salvador. Always the most lik...

126. Tahiti. (October 16 2012) By losing 3-0 to New Zealand, Tahiti's fourth defeat in four group matches since winning the Oceania Nations Cup. The defeat was made in Scotland - Michael McGlinchy, a Celtic youngster who represented Scotland at U-20 and U-21 level (but not often) but then switched ...

Replying to my own comments again, but that is the way of life. The two sides who fell from the CONCACAF group were expected, but they still have something to contribute as the remaining nine are scythed down to six in midweek. A win would have given Antigua and Barbuda only a faint glimmer of hope ...

128. Antigua and Barbuda
127. Guyana

Sudan are to appeal to FIFA after the World Body decided on Tuesday to award their home game against Zambia as a 3-0 away in. The match was played back in June, with Sudan winning 2-0 courtesy of second half goals from Muhannad Tahir and Saif Masawi. In the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Natio...

Another International Weekend is upon us, and there will be action around the World in World Cup Qualification. The one exception to this is in Africa, where World Cup qualifying is on sabbatical until next March, the countries being involved next week in winning places in South Africa for January’s...

129. Cuba 11 September 2012. A 1-0 defeat in Honduras, Cuba's fourth consecutive defeat at this stage removes any faint hopes the Cubans have of continuing beyond into the final series of CONCACAF qualifying. The goalscorer in the match was Jerry Bengston, fresh from impressive performances for his...

The Autumn session of Qualifyers opened with two games in Oceania. The Solomon Islands beat Tahiti 2-0. THis is a result for the Solomons, as during the recent Oceania Nations Cup/World Cup series played in Honoria, Tahiti beat their hosts in the semi-final before beating New Caledonia in the final ...

The first two rounds have been completed in Round 3 of Concacaf's qualification process. The remaining games are in September and October, so this area is poised to provide the next six to get knocked out. Only two sides, Mexico and Panama have started with two straight wins. The first game was Cuba...

Three out of the ten rounds of Asian Competition in the current groups have taken place this month. The final three rounds take place next June, with a round each in September, October, November and March to fill in. Already, the East Asian giants, Japan and South Korea look to be on their way to Br...

Tahiti won the Oceania cup, and therefore go into next season's Confederation Cup. The match was won by a single, ear;y goal. The 3/4 play off was won by New Zealand, who looked comfortably ahead on the hosts after Chris Wood scored a hat-trick in the first half hour, but the Solomoon Islands pulled...

Not Strictly World Cup as the four finalists out in the Solomon Islands, (New Zealand, Tahiti, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands) go on to play a home/away series before one gets a play off chance to go to the World Cup. The knock out matches are therefore for the Oceania Nations Cup title, and ...

130. Fiji. As the first match up on the day, the objective for Fiji was to set a target to make sure that the Solomon Islands needed a point against New Zealand, and then then to hope New Zealand would win. In order to avoid the complications of equal goal differences, a two goal margin was really ...

A note from yesterday's game. Just before Papua New Guinea pulled a goal back from the penalty spot, New Zealand's Tony Lochhead was cautioned. As he had already received a yellow card just before half time, he should have been off the field during injury time, but the referee did not notice. He has...

Its a tough schedule out in Honiara, with group games over a period of just six days - meaning that each team has to play three times in five days. The pattern over the first four days is high scoring in Group A, low scoring in Group B. Day 2 resulted in two 1-0 wins, for New Zealand over Fiji, and ...

The June World Cup Fixtures - played on every continent not near you - have started, and it does not appear Samoa will last much longer, having come through the preliminary group. It took them eight minutes to concede a goal, and they were 4-0 down at half time to Tahiti. The first goal against was ...

With the Euros coming up, June also sees World Cup Qualifying games in every continent except Europe. Most of these are just entering a new step of the process, which means that only four teams will be knocked out this month, all in Oceania. The Oceanian group, played on the Solomon Islands starts t...

11 November 2011. The punishment on Myanmar (originally banned from the 2018 World Cup) has been reduced, and they can now enter, but will not play any qualifying games at home. 161. Tajikistan. Losing 4-0 at home to Japan, their fourth defeat in as many games, Tajikistan become the first casualty f...

August 20 2011 188. Syria. Originally reported on 28th July as Tajikistan, on the reasonable grounds that they lost 6-1 on aggregate to Syria. Included in the Syrian team for the matches against Tajikistan was George Mourad. Mourad was born in Beirut, Lebanon but holds dual Swedish/Syrian nationalit...

July 4 2011 by Hod (Crewe) Replying to - Apparently that was indeed Palestine's first World Cup game on home soil. Yes first World Cup game at home. Played in Ram at the Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium. 9,000 there apparently. This was the second competetive match there as on March 9th they hosted Thaila...

Using near duplicate posts from the forum of Non League matters http://nonleaguematters.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;? I am trying to bring back the lost World Cup thread. I will do this in a series of posts. Comments are by me, unless I give the use...