World Cup Seeds anounced

[Liam]

England seeded for 2006 World Cup

England have been placed among the top eight seeds for the 2006 World Cup.

Sven-Goran Eriksson's side are in a top pool of hosts Germany, holders Brazil as well as Argentina, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico.

England will now avoid meeting those countries in the group stages when the main draw for the tournament is made on Friday evening.

Under the seeding system used by Fifa, England came out second to Brazil while Italy narrowly beat the US into eighth.

Fifa used the same ranking co-efficient as in 2002 when seedings were based on performances at the previous two finals and a position based on world rankings from the previous three years.

"It's excellent news," Eriksson told the English Football Association website.

"I think it's right too. We are one of the teams that have the potential to do very well in Germany and we have some of the best players in the world.

"Finishing top of our qualification group with the second best record in the whole of Europe was a big achievement and I'm sure that has played a part in this decision."

Good news all around, I guess. If Italy would have missed out to the US, I would have found that funny (as long as they'd have avoided our group, mind....>_>)

[YI]

Nice, nice. Now here's to hoping for a good group. When are the group's drawn?

Edited December 6, 2005 by Spyrazul

[Liam]

Friday, 8pm I think. On BBC2

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ahhhh second.....Sounds about right to me!

Holland are gonna be the unseeded team to avoid methinks...

[lazy_arse]

This is the group I want:

England

Croatia

Angola

Saudi Arabia

That would be a piece of piss. Well I should hope so anyway.

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Exchange the Saudis for Trinidad or Togo, and I'd love the Aussies in our group.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I'd love England, Australia, USA and someone like Ghana

[lanky316]

I'd love England, Australia, USA and someone like Ghana

[ONO]

Ghana are going to do a Senegal.

[Big Red Fury]

God we got fucked over, we lose like 5 potential easy draws because we got lumped in with Asian and the rest of the Concacaf qualifiers.

[Guest Ringo Masterson]

Seeds suck, they're just there to make it easier for the big guns and to stop me from having an entertaining group France/Italy/Brazil/Argentina or something like that.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Yep, there sure as hell won't be one of those "groups of death" this time around...

[MDK]

I dont't want Trinidad and Tobago or Togo in Englands group, because I get the feeling they are gonna humble someone.

[Liam]

I'd love England, Australia, USA and someone like Ghana

I wouldn't we're capable of getting knocked out against those sides

I know you love being negative about the England national team, but come on.....we'd win a group of them 3.

[MDK]

We're capable of getting knocked out by anyone, that is what luck is all about. But c'mon, BELIEVEEEEE! Support them blindly.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

The hardest pot apart from the seeds is definitely the Euro pot....So there SHOULD be one difficult game in the group at least.

I like the way Serbia are in a "special" pot...

[Guest Ringo Masterson]

Yep, there sure as hell won't be one of those "groups of death" this time around...

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

You could also have England, Holland, USA and another...That would probably be the trickiest