England 4th in FIFA rankings.

Admiral Huddy · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:14

source: http://www.sportinglife.com/footbal...=soccer/11/06/29/SOCCER_Rankings.html&BID=165

What the..

Fabio Capello's team have moved above Brazil and Argentina in the rankings, updated today, despite only reaching the last 16 in last summer's World Cup, and failing to win two of their last three qualifying matches for next summer's European Championships.

This must be FIFA11.. Even Fab look rather confussed

Does this mean that our poor world cup only has a weighting of 50%?
:confused:

Stewy · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:36

Adrianr · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:45

This has got to be a back-hander after not getting the World Cup..

jrodga2k5 · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:49

Just shows that the ranking system is seriously flawed

Russinating · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:50

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html

Brazil (and Argentina) lost 295 points. Anybody know why that is? Have they not played any friendlies/continental cups recently?

Add the end of the day like the article says it's just a ranking of success in recent matches really, not skill. So I guess if you're not playing matches then you're not going to get the points.

Psycho Sonny · 29 Jun 2011 at 11:56

----------------- Hart

Johnson -- Ferdinand -- Terry -- Cole

Young/Walcott -- Gerrard/Barry -- Lampard -- Downing/Johnson

------------- Rooney -- Carrol/Defoe

is better than

------------------ Cesar

Maicon/Alves -- Lucio -- Silva/Alex/Luiz -- Andre Santos/Adriano

---------------- Ramires/Lucas/Sandro

----------- Elano/Diego ------ Kaka

Pato/Robhino -------- Fabiano ------- Neymar/Ronaldhino

:confused:

Stewy · 29 Jun 2011 at 12:01

Or Argentina's comically talented front line

Psycho Sonny · 29 Jun 2011 at 12:09

StewartMG said:
Or Argentina's comically talented front line

i would put england ahead of argentina, lets be honest here, argentina have zero defence and terrible keepers.

argentina's best defenders are now all OAP's. zanetti 37, heinze 33, samuel 33.

they have more world class strikers than any other team out there though, but its a team game and 11 players make a team.

Stewy · 29 Jun 2011 at 12:35

Really? Realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly?

Mark1989 · 29 Jun 2011 at 13:22

Clearly drunk when this ranking was done!

Tunney · 29 Jun 2011 at 13:23

WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE NEXT WORLD CUP!!!

Admiral Huddy · 29 Jun 2011 at 13:34

Adrianr said:
This has got to be a back-hander after not getting the World Cup..

This .. although you would have thought Blatter would have introduced a minus 1000 for England clause somewhere in his own set of rules.

Weebull · 29 Jun 2011 at 14:06

On the plus side, it's based upon a four-year period, so in a few months time we'll get to knock the terrible reign of McClaren off our records. Onwards and upwards! \o/

Cosimo · 29 Jun 2011 at 14:30

Lol the rest must be really bad.

platypus · 29 Jun 2011 at 15:10

Have to say I wondered if this was the Women.

Egon · 30 Jun 2011 at 09:18

4th - that's laughable, that must be our highest ranking for a good few years as well.

atpbx · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:43

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

I dont think so.

This is the kind of nonsense that keeps the dozy Italian in his job.

mmj_uk · 3 Jul 2011 at 09:51

It doesn't really say much for the FIFA rankings, we'd struggle to beat most teams in the top 30.

Mr-White · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:21

Egon said:
4th - that's laughable, that must be our highest ranking for a good few years as well.

"The last time England were as high as fourth was in 1997"
"equalling their highest placing"

MW

Icm76 · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:34

It's just a very temporary blip due to the way the points are accumulated. As soon as the Copa América is finished the South American nations (+ a few others) will regain their relative positions and England will be back to a more typical ranking.