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Post by futoomph on Sept 11, 2006 19:41:24 GMT
Don't suppose anyone has worked out the cup the opposite way round? Who lost to the team that lost the first game etc.
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Post by petewaring on Nov 26, 2006 15:34:15 GMT
Have just done it - it didn't take at all long, largely because Latvia, having become wooden sthingy holders in 1948, didn't play again until 1991! Below is a complete list of the "hall of shame". Some things to note: It didn't leave Britain until 1926, between 1931 and 1996 it was only held by the three ex-Soviet Baltic states, and the title has still never left Europe, although it came close in the most recent match, when Luxembourg drew 0-0 with Togo.
8 3 1873 Scotland
7 3 1874 England
18 1 1879 Wales
26 2 1881 England
18 2 1882 Ireland
12 3 1887 Wales
3 3 1888 Ireland
7 2 1891 Wales
24 2 1894 Ireland
6 3 1897 Wales
24 2 1900 Ireland
22 3 1902 Wales
6 3 1905 Scotland
18 3 1905 Ireland
11 4 1908 Wales
1 3 1909 Scotland
15 3 1909 Ireland
19 3 1910 Scotland
2 4 1910 England
11 2 1911 Ireland
13 4 1912 Wales
18 1 1913 Ireland
15 2 1913 England
17 3 1913 Wales
15 3 1920 England
10 4 1920 Scotland
12 2 1921 Wales
9 4 1921 Northern Ireland
14 4 1923 Wales
16 2 1924 Scotland
1 3 1924 Northern Ireland
13 2 1926 Wales
1 3 1926 England
24 5 1926 Belgium
13 3 1927 Holland
1 5 1927 Belgium
1 4 1928 Holland
22 4 1928 Denmark
17 6 1928 Norway
18 6 1929 Finland
27 8 1929 Estonia
18 9 1929 Latvia
4 8 1930 Finland
17 6 1931 Estonia
30 8 1931 Lithuania
6 8 1932 Estonia
20 7 1933 Lithuania
10 6 1934 Latvia
30 5 1935 Lithuania
20 8 1935 Estonia
30 8 1936 Lithuania
27 8 1939 Estonia
18 7 1940 Latvia
6 9 1940 Lithuania
13 10 1940 Latvia
28 9 1947 Lithuania
26 9 1948 Latvia
10 7 1992 Estonia
4 7 1993 Lithuania
29 7 1994 Estonia
5 10 1996 Belarus
7 6 1998 Lithuania
29 6 1998 Andorra
26 4 2000 Belarus
16 8 2000 Latvia
15 11 2000 San Marino
28 4 2004 Liechtenstein
13 10 2004 Luxembourg
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Post by petewaring on Feb 23, 2007 20:08:39 GMT
No sooner had I said the "title" has never left Europe, than the title has left Europe! 12 years after their last victory of any kind, the titans of Luxembourg have beaten Gambia 2-1 with goals from Oriyalli and Tacamora, and Gambia are now unofficially "the worst team in the world."
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Post by kevinmce on Mar 25, 2007 20:33:54 GMT
Gambia lost 2-0 at home to Guinea yesterday, and their next match is away to the same opposition on 2nd June, so they would appear unlikely to offload the title then. Their better hope might be a fortnight later against Cape Verde Islands, whom they beat in September.
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Post by Paul on Mar 30, 2007 8:35:50 GMT
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Post by petewaring on Apr 10, 2007 18:00:37 GMT
Having discovered that the wooden sthingy race was featured in the newsletter, I thought I better double check that the facts were right! There is one alteration to make, but luckily it doesn't have too dramatic an effect. I had got most of my facts prior to 1985 from RSSSF, and since then from FIFA. The list of Estonia results on RSSSF jumps from 1940 to 1992, making me think previously that their defeat to Latvia on 3/8/1942, which was listed on Latvia's results, was probably unofficial. Having done some more research, I'm pretty convinced it was official. Therefore, Estonia took the title on 3/8/1942, and did not relinquish it until 4/7/1993, to Lithuania, so it is they, not Latvia, who kept the sthingy warm for half a century. Since 4/7/1993, the holders were as above, so sorry all you Gambians, but you're still the worst team in the world!
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Post by kevinmce on Jul 24, 2007 13:24:18 GMT
Well, Gambia drew the return matches against Guinea and Cape Verde, so they have not yet relinquished the title. They have a chance to do so at home to Algeria on 8th September (but Algeria would hav to be favourites for this one).
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Post by jessekuiper on Sept 12, 2007 9:50:56 GMT
Gambia won last Sunday by 2:1 so now the title is in the hands of Algeria.
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Post by petewaring on Sept 15, 2007 19:22:25 GMT
An amazing victory for Gambia - you can see a match report here: www.thepoint.gm/sports1103.htmFIFA rank Algeria 73rd of 208 teams. Having qualified for the world cup in 1982 (when they would have progressed but for the infamous Germany-Austria "fix"), and again in 1986, they are the first former world cup finalists ever to hold the wooden sthingy (the last future world cup finalists to hold the sthingy were Norway in 1928-29). |
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Post by kevinmce on Nov 21, 2007 18:06:44 GMT
And now Algeria have "lost" the honour to Mali by virtue of beating them 3-2 yesterday, so Mali are "the worst team in the world", while ranked 40th!
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Post by jessekuiper on Jan 31, 2008 15:38:39 GMT
A lot of African interlands has been played this month, because at this moment the Africa Cup of Nations is going on! On 10 January, Mali lost from Egypt (Egypt 1:0 Mali) - a friendly On 21 January, Mali won from Benin (Mali 1:0 Benin) On 25 January, Benin lost from Côte d'Ivoire (Côte d'Ivoire 4:1 Benin) On 29 January, Benin lost from Nigeria (Nigeria 2:0 Benin) Obviously, Benin is not qualified for the quarter finals of the ACN and on top of that, leaves the tournament as the worst national football team in the world! According to the FIFA website, the next match that Benin will play is a FIFA World Cup qualifier against Angola on 30 May 2008. |
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Post by petewaring on Jun 9, 2008 8:40:45 GMT
A plethora of world cup qualifiers this month in Africa. Benin have offloaded the sthingy by beating Uganda 4-1.
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Post by kevinmce on Sept 10, 2008 8:47:28 GMT
Uganda beat Angola 6 days after the Benin match, and Angola, after a defeat and two draws, will hope to offload the title against Niger on 10th October.
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Post by kevinmce on Oct 13, 2008 22:53:13 GMT
Angola's 3-1 in leaves Niger as wooden sp00n holders
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Post by petewaring on Mar 20, 2009 20:00:39 GMT
Further to the debate on another thread about countries being subsumed into another:
If the USSR had taken over the sp00n after the "subsumation" of Estonia, the sp00n would then have journeyed around as follows:
16 7 1952 Bulgaria
24 10 1954 East Germany
18 9 1955 Romania
28 9 1955 Belgium
25 12 1955 France
25 3 1956 Austria
30 9 1956 Luxembourg
8 10 1961 Portugal
16 12 1962 Bulgaria
23 1 1963 Portugal
21 4 1963 Brazil
28 4 1963 France
26 10 1963 Bulgaria
23 2 1965 Greece
16 10 1966 Finland
25 6 1969 Spain
15 10 1969 Finland
21 6 1972 Albania
10 10 1973 Finland
15 8 1974 Norway
4 9 1974 Northern Ireland
30 10 1974 Sweden
19 5 1975 Algeria
26 5 1975 Libya
23 12 1975 Syria
7 10 1976 Jordan
10 10 1976 Mauritania
12 2 1980 Mali
28 9 1980 Mauritania
12 10 1980 Mali
9 12 1980 Togo
14 12 1980 Niger
28 12 1980 Togo
14 4 1981 Congo
21 8 1981 Gabon
7 12 1985 Congo
9 12 1985 Central Af Rep
2 12 1988 Chad
7 12 1989 Congo
18 8 1990 Malawi
11 12 1990 Tanzania
14 12 1990 Zimbabwe
14 4 1991 Malawi
19 8 1991 Mozambique
20 6 1992 Swaziland
25 10 1992 Zaire
25 7 1993 Lesotho
13 11 1994 Cameroon
4 6 1995 Lesotho
26 1 1997 Swaziland
2 3 1997 Mozambique
15 6 1997 Tanzania
22 6 1997 Togo
13 7 1997 Liberia
27 7 1997 Tanzania
26 7 1999 Djibouti
16 11 2007 Somalia
3 1 2009 Tanzania
7 1 2009 Rwanda
This obviously differs dramatically from the other list, which has Niger as the sp00n holder. Hopefully, one day there will be a sp00n unification bout between the two different holders!
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